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Article URL: https://venturebeat.com/ai/quantum-computing-startup-infleqtion-names-matthew-kinsella-as-ceo/

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Article URL: https://www.vqronline.org/reporting-articles/2017/04/useful-village

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Article URL: https://newrepublic.com/post/180484/top-israeli-spy-chief-blew-cover

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Article URL: https://www.eetimes.com/neureality-boosts-ai-accelerator-utilization-with-napu/

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Article URL: https://island.is/en/electronic-application-for-icelandic-citizenship

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My remote coworker has not done any work for nearly two years. Every day, seemingly either through obfuscation or exaggeration, they find a reason to get nothing done.

Sometimes the dog is sick, sometimes it's a contractor doing work on their home, sometimes it's insane Rube Goldberg machines like "it's raining and my wife has astigmatism so I have to drive her around town so she can do her errands"

Now, I know commits are a terrible proxy for programmer productivity, but... we're talking about 8 commits over the course of ~650 days, 7 of which are README updates from this person. Sounds hyperbolic, but it's the truth.

Normally I wouldn't care about a bum coworker. There's a lot of them out there, unavoidable. They're usually harmless. But this person is above me in pay and title and has recently come to the helm of the project that I am working on. This person's apathy and laziness is really starting to affect my ability to do good work. The rest of my team under this individual feels similarly.

What's a person to do? This is not some mega-corp where do-nothing types can fly under the radar. It's glaringly obvious to boots-on-the-ground engineers that this person is a net negative. I think even our manager is at least acutely aware that this person is a bit of a bum, but they seem to take on a cognitive dissonance towards it, pretending to be aloof about the situation, to the point of allowing this person to run projects and lead teams.

I've spoken with this person individually and let them know how they're affecting the rest of the team, but they took it as a personal attack of character, so that just lead to this person seeing me as a threat.

I really love everything about my current gig and would hate to have to move teams or even find an entirely new job, but I feel I am running out of more civil options. Any suggestions from folks who've dealt with a similar situation?

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Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/05/business/ai-job-losses/index.html

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Article URL: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-cias-most-highly-trained-spies-werent-even-human-20149/

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Just in case you ever need to check the time and only have your phone and one other screen with internet access.

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Article URL: https://piunikaweb.com/2024/04/05/gmail-summarize-this-email-android/

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Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-024-02194-3

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Article URL: https://www.theengineer.co.uk/content/news/quarterhorse-mk-1-puts-hermeus-on-route-to-hypersonic-flight/

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Article URL: https://www.wheresyoured.at/bubble-trouble/

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Article URL: https://hbr.org/2023/10/simple-ways-to-show-appreciation-at-work

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Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/world/africa/zimbabwe-launches-a-new-currencyagain-0696a104

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Article URL: https://github.com/geodrome/entity-graph

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Article URL: https://github.com/eeue56/neuro-lingo

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Article URL: https://github.com/khalby786/slack-cms

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Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HUYGx9Qqmg

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