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I'm so tired of hearing about AI at work. They don't have the fundamentals of software development down - no tests. no linters. no automatic deployment. Dependency management is a joke. Code reviews are a rubber stamp. They only this quarter stopped people from SSH'ing onto the prod machine and making live, not in source control, changes. But they want everyone to start leveraging AI. Spending untold piles of time and money on it.
It would be far cheaper and more cost-effective to spend like, a week, on software development fundamentals.
Meanwhile, I've stubbornly forced my way through various processes and red tape to get a bare minimum of checks that run automatically on PR. This week it found someone had pushed a script with a fatal syntax error, gotten it reviewed, approved, and merged. My check goes live and flags this before it's in prod. No one cares. Management still just wants to talk about AI.
There's no reward for preventing fires, they only care if you put a large one out. It's immensely frustrating.
Truth. I've been rewarded for putting out fires that I caused. I find the best thing to do in these situations is to keep my stupid mouth shut.
You might get more traction if you frame it as "I caught Gary trying to do an arson" instead of "I prevented a fire"
I'm going to substitute the name Claude for no reason in particular, but I might just take that feedback on board...
99.999999999999998898999999999899% of what's described by the executives at my work isn't AI either, it's either formulas or macros. Which have existed since what, the 80s?
Just absolutely goes to show you that these idiots have no clue, and are just throwing shit at the wall and hoping something sticks. Aka just another Tuesday.
Eat the rich. Eat the executives.
Fuck AI
We had a town hall at my company today and they demo'd their new AI product. It looked and sounded impressive, until you realized it wasn't the actual product but a Figma demo. If this thing ever sees the light of day, and it actually works without hallucinating bullshit data points, I'll eat my socks.
Management does not want you trained, they want to see you replaced by AI.
And yet so many people who would be replaced if this AI stuff worked seem so eager to embrace it.