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Comment by SoftTalker

3 years ago

Trying to decide if you're being ironic.

I find that even saying "I'm a programmer" in social settings triggers my counterparty to frantically start scanning the room for anybody else to talk to.

In social situations when that comes up I usually say something like "I work for <employer>" and then immediately try to change the subject.

> Trying to decide if you're being ironic.

Not ironic at all. I actually work in machine learning but saying anything close to "AI" is a fatal error.