Fuck AI

Most importantly it's a non-deterministic tool that people are showing into things that can be easily made deterministic, but that's not cool enough or something.

I love making automation scripts, but I'm never given time to do them properly, so I had to shove it between compiling and whatnot. So, most were unfinished and needed just a bit of polish.

Then, a three week long AI-tooling sprint comes, because suddenly we have time for that, and they replaced all of it with Agent based solution, where one run costs tens of dollars in tokens, and it also sometimes just straight up halucinates results, becasue it ran into an error and you asked for data, so data it will give. It has already ran a wrong build when it was confused, halucinated results, and in general it's faulty.

If I was given three weeks to finish my scripts, we'd have the same results, but actually reliable.

Hell, we've replaced our regular daily chat messages (like, post your standup here thread) from a normal scheduled message to, for some inexplicable reason, messages posted by AI. The jobs fail to fire like 10% of the time, it posts the reminder in the evening, or only when you ask it about it. Like, why?? We had a perfectly deterministic solution for all of that.

I would kind of understand if people used AI to build the deterministic scripts, but noo, we can't have performance test running script, we have to add AI to the loop so it can be more flexible. It's fuck all flexible, just sometimes spews bullshit, runs the wrong thing, and we get data that no one checks and people just trust. We already burned so much mandays on trying to investigate something that was just a bullshit halucination.