July 13, 2026 at 12:00 am
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July 13, 2026 at 4:43 pm
I worked at a company where the data analysts were paid significantly below market rate.
This became a growing staff retention problem, but HR rules made bulk pay rises for existing jobs almost impossible. The solution was for data analysts to be retitled as Data Scientists. There is a world of difference between a Data Analyst and a Data Scientist, but for the purposes of regrading people's salaries, the title change was necessary.
Its Bonkers, but that is the game. Just play it.
July 14, 2026 at 12:49 am
Steve, I hesitate to respond to this thread, because what I want to talk about isn't specifically related to your topic of learning new skills to advance your career. It's a great topic, but at least in my current situation there's no way I could do that. Where I work the culture is, "stay in your own lane".
What I wanted to ask you about is what you and Ken Muse brought up. One of the tasks I've been assigned is being one of the GitHub Administrators where I work. I've been surprised to learn that I am good at this. I really want to see the session that you and Ken did. I hope it is something I can watch remotely, because there's no chance of my going to any conference (that's an argument I lose year after year.) But the prospect of GitHub and AI really intrigues me. However, even that will become difficult. July is the beginning of our next fiscal year. Upper management had promised to purchase GitHub Copilot for all the developers, of which I am one. Well, I've learned that they are reneging on that promise. Instead, they want to take the cheap way out and just use Ollama from Facebook. The point is Ollama is free and I think we can use it in Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code. So, even though we're not going to use GitHub Copilot (or Claude Code AI, or anything like that) I can at least watch what you're talking about and maybe try to do a little of it at home.
Rod
July 14, 2026 at 2:29 pm
The webinar is on-demand, so it's going to be available. I'm looking for a link now as I'm not sure if was released. It's basically having GHCP react to an issue, write some code, have Flyway add determinism and build the deployment script and test it.
I'd suspect some of this could be done with local models. I'm a big fan of local models and think they're something more companies should use.
July 14, 2026 at 2:30 pm
and of course I found it 5sec after posting: https://www.red-gate.com/campaign/ai-can-accelerate-speed-to-market/?utm_source=sales&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=wod-202607-flyway-github-actions-ai-guardrails-gm-all
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