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Hi Polish people,

This summer I decided it would be a nice idea for my girlfriend and me to go on a vacation to Poland. We travelled through your country for rougly 20 days (by car), and stayed at the following spots:

1. Gdansk
2. Ukta (Mazuria lake district)
3. Krakow
4. Szczawnica
5. Katowice

Gdansk; First time here; Amazing city, friendly people, really cool war museum, good pierogi

Ukta + Surroundings: Went here especially for being able to sail from lake to lake, but we had insanely bad weather. Therefore, we checked out some towns with castles and what not, they were pretty cool. Also did some long walking through nature. Relaxing province but would not necessary go here again.

Krakow: Had been here two times before. It was extremely crowded compared to those previous visits, but understandably so. I still think it is the prettiest Polish city I have been to. Not necessary the nicest to visit because of the insane amount of tourists.

Szczawnica: Came here for hiking the Pieniny mountains and Tatra. Pieniny was really nice (but also quite tourist heavy when close to town). Tatra was insanely touristy with respect to parking and the main hike, only once we got really high up it got a bit more chill. Someone there told me that next time I should visit the Slovakian side of tatra instead. Nevertheless, great nature spots. P.S., I heard I should avoid Zakopane like the plague so didn’t go there.

Katowice: We knew that this is more an industry style city, so we didn’t come for the looks but still it was amazing. Biking through the big park towards the older parts of the city, and again a lot of friendly people everywhere made it a pleasure for the last weekend.

I really liked Poland and will definitely go back some time soon. Therefore I would like to ask you all;

1. Opinions on my opinion?
2. Do you guys think there are places I should have definitely visited ad well?
3. Why do almost all Polish towns have so many commercial signs everywhere? Sometimes it really ruins the vibe of certain otherwise even more beautiful spots.

Dziekuje!

I have been working as a data scientist / software engineer for about 5 years now in a team where we provide applications, automation, and other types of improvements across all departments (finance, supply chain, etc..).

Our manager has gotten what I call AI fever, and it’s getting progressively worse. First, it started of quite innocent and it simply came down to that he asked all of us to use claude and up our speed by x amount. A month or so later, he suddenly said we should stop our active projects and develop “agents” for every department. We explained to him that we think that LLM chatbots integrated with custom MCPs is not going to make as much impact as he expects but still he kept insisting and forced it down our throats. Now 6-8 months later, after not a single LLM implementation with “groundbreaking” impact he made a new guy join our team, an “Agentic Engineer”. According to our manager this guy had created agents which talked to agents and you could simply tell the agent your problem and it would solve everything for you.

Where are we now you wonder? This guy has been with us for two weeks now and all I have seen him do so far has consisted out of nothing but talking to claude code, and him vibe coding some of the most crazy stuff (not in a good sense). I even asked the guy from what type of background he came and he studied business economics. But he did have 1.5 years of coding experience, just only via Claude, never by himself.

I’m personally very curious what is going to happen in the next weeks, but I sincerely hope that my manager will finally be knocked down to earth again. Or who knows, maybe the agentic engineer is going to make our entire team redunant.

What do you think will happen?
And
Have you guys experienced something similar?

Sinds LinkedIn steeds meer is gaan lijken op een soort Facebook voor werkende mensen, is dit fenomeen voor mijn gevoel ook steeds meer op gaan spelen; Titelflatie.

Ik heb het over het principe dat bedrijven de meest imponerende titels geven aan een bepaalde functie, in plaats van titels die daadwerkelijk laten zien wat voor werk iemand doet. Verder heb het gevoel dat met name de AI-boom dit fenomeen versterkt, zodat het voor buitenstaanders lijkt alsof hun bedrijf zich (zoals dat tegenwoordig heurt) ook bezighoudt met AI.

Om een paar voorbeelden te noemen die ik recent voorbij zag komen;
- AI/ML Computational Science Analyst, in realiteit een junior data consultant
- Master of Operational Excellence, HR medewerker

Ik wil verder niet haten op de bedrijven die deze titels verstrekken of mensen die hem dragen, want ik snap dat dit met de hedendaagse staat van LinkedIn wellicht tot voordelen kan leiden.
Waar ik vooral naar benieuwd ben is; welke mooie vormen van Titelflatie zijn jullie tegengekomen?, Hebben jullie te maken gehad met de gevolgen van titelflatie, b.v.: sollicitanten die bij hun nieuwe baan per se een vette titel willen, noem maar op..