One of the rare comments here that is not acid spewing rage against AI. I too went from "copying a few lines to save some time" and having to recheck everything to several hundred lines working out of the box.

[–] TurdBurgler@sh.itjust.works -4 points 1 day ago (12 children)

I get it. I was a huge skeptic 2 years ago, and I think that's part of the reason my company asked me to join our emerging AI team as an Individual Contributor. I didn't understand why I'd want a shitty junior dev doing a bad job... but the tools, the methodology, the gains.. they all started to get better.

I'm now leading that team, and we're not only doing accelerated development, we're building products with AI that have received positive feedback from our internal customers, with a launch of our first external AI product going live in Q1.

[–] Trail@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

Get back to us when you actually launch and maintain a product for a few months then. Because you don't have anything in production then.

[–] TurdBurgler@sh.itjust.works -1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

We use a layered architecture following best practices and have guardrails, observability and evaluations of the AI processes. We have pilot programs and internal SMEs doing thorough testing before launch. It's modeled after the internal programs we've had success with.

We are doing this very responsibly, and deliver a product our customers are asking for, with the tools to help calibrate minor things based on analytics.

We take data governance and security compliance seriously.

[–] Trail@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

If you have all this infrastructure in place, similar internal programs and so on, why don't you just adjust an internal program that you already have? What value does the AI actually offer?

[–] TurdBurgler@sh.itjust.works -1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Accelerated delivery. We use it for intelligent verifiable code generation. It's the same work the senior dev was going to complete anyway, but now they cut out a lot of mundane time intensive parts.

We still have design discussions that drive the backlog items the developers work off with their AI, we don't just assign backlog items to bots.

We have not let loose the SaaS agents that blindly pull from the backlog and open PRs, but we are exploring it carefully with older projects that only require maintenance.

And yes, we also use chore bots that are determinstic for maintainance, but these are more small changes the business needs.

There are in fact changes these agents can make well.

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