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I'm God's most powerful anti-AI hater and have the capacity for morality so this ain't it folks
If AI is so fucking transformative why do we need to be compelled to use it
Hey are we even breaking even? Like all the devs I talk to about it go "yeah it's ok but you spend about as much time fixing what it gives you as you would writing it yourself". Can you imagine the business acumen it takes to have your devs take as much time as usual but also pay OpenAI a royalty for use of their text extrusion machine? And having it assist the HR department? Legal? All it's good for is finding a polite way to tell someone they're fired or communicate absolutely nothing behind sixty layers of corporate executive jargon.
Won't tracking make the point? It will suck for a bit, but I can imagine the shareholders'/board meetings looking at how much time was spent correcting AI.
That's why the boss's next directive, a couple of months down the line, will be to get their employees to fake the numbers so it looks like AI is actually saving time, not being a massive error generator.
That's exactly how it went at my last workplace. Management wasn't satisfied with employees meeting the new goals and started stressing it so much every team lead was faking metrics just to prevent further harassment about it. Ended up having teams spending a lot of time fabricated metrics instead of working to prevent further bother from the higher ups. Soon everyone was reporting lots of deployment accomplishments during a period in which we weren't allowed to deploy changes, and there was a quiet consensus among everyone that you had to fabricate data.
The higher ups can never fail, only be failed, and so everyone better get good at lying, or else they're getting fired for failing to meet goals.