Fuck AI

That is going to be a glorious dumpster fire. You have my sincere sympathy.

I'm retired, so I don't have to deal with this AI garbage... but I have a friend who's a manager of a decent-sized office at an accounting firm.

He told me recently that, not only are all employees required to use AI in their daily work, but my friend has to write weekly reports to his bosses on how AI is improving workflow in the office. He's not allowed to say, "It's not." Only positive feedback. They need to justify its continued use, so he needs to find benefits to report to the higher-ups.

Sadly, he's the only one who doesn't like/use AI. Everyone else in his office has basically replaced their jobs with it. Every report that comes across his desk is AI nonsense, which he has to spend time fixing because his subordinates don't know how to write reports without AI assistance.

I do not envy my friend.

I have a coworker who went full AI, and I think is actually losing it, like sees them as people. He was telling me he's been asking chatgpt for relationship advice and how I should use it to get advice on my relationships (my wife and I are fine because I prefer talking to her than the robots).

On Friday he was spamming me with "issues" that codex found with my PR. I think he sent over 20 bulletpoints. 1 of them was a small bug that would only apply in a way far out edge case but good to fix. The rest was absolute nonsense, or evidently not an issue if a huge read it and thought about the context.

I ignored him all day, but still had to take the time to read and verify everything. At 4pm he sends me a message asking me to fix the bugs or he can have codex fix them. I told him they were nonsense and not applicable, explained each one in simple terms, then 20 minutes later I got a message "codex said there's still these issue: <the same fucking list that he evidently didn't read>".

This has been going in for a while. I spend half my week fixing his AI slop that he genuinely thinks is gold. I swear 4 months ago he was a very solid developer, today I wouldn't trust him to write an HTML page.

I've been looking for a job for the past 6 months. Every interview I had (more than 50) hinted that some Claude or Copilot was being used more and more. Some companies even want to hire "junior AI engineer." How the fuck can you hire a junior with a non-existing degree and that knows nothing about a technology so recent?

I found one and only one company who officially rejects AI, and I hope they'll hire me.

I was fired for pointing out dangers of AI and data centers. I would do it again

Time to start tokenmaxing and make this as costly a decision as possible

There was another similar post not that long ago.

Manager says "we don't touch code any more, we only tell claude what to do". Part of the thinking is that claude will improve as you teach it.

There's a lot of hype and hyperbole from both sides. Managers thinking claude can replace entire teams and commentary saying it can't explain how to tie your shoes.

I haven't used claude itself so I just don't know, but things like Mistral and other models available on huggingface just aren't in this kind of league.

I feel like the atrophy of cognitive function and high level skills is the other side of the AI-in-the-workplace coin. It just seems obvious to me, and I'm sure to any professional, that they wouldn't have developed their skill if they didn't... develop their skill. You can't really develop coding skills by looking at what claude did.

For the most part, I am an AI sceptic. My firm has had access to and beta tested every Google AI model since before the AI had a name (yes, well before Bard). We also have access to ChatGPT, Claude and locally run models on dedicated hardware. I'll save you the suspense, at the moment it's all mostly trash. Barely a proof of concept. Definitely not production ready, but there are a few exceptions I, personally, have found.

Gemini Pro is excellent at identifying and diagnosing sick garden plants if you take and upload a photos of the plants. Unfortunately, it still cannot do simple arithmetic. A simple SUM that any spreadsheet does automatically by just highlighting the cells, and somehow it was still off by one.

For software dev, the only one product we have found to be useful is Claude, BUT it really depends on the model. Haiku is a joke. Sonnet is not bad, if not bad is ~50% accuracy. Opus is fairly descent at building scaffolding that you can then correct and complete, but don't expect efficient code.

The only model we have ever tested that can deliver ALMOST fully functional code, reliably diagnose errors, and review code is Mythos/Fable. Genuinely not absolute shite, BUT that shit is extremely slow and outrageously expensive. I seriously doubt that your company is forking out the money for Claude Fable as their default model, and if they are, they must not care about ever making a profit.

Fork the repos that matter now, and squirrel them away somewhere, just in case someone gets froggy and gives Claude write access to your repos and fucks the history of something interesting like that. Always good to have a backup contingency.

Unions solve this issue btw. Would love to see software development work more like carpentry or public works with a trade union and work hall than the current cult of personality or culture of staying at a single employer your entire life.

Same seems to happen with some healthcare software in Germany. For example, Compu Group Medical is in the news for massively losing customers for bad software quality, and they have gone all-in on AI.

Better polish your CV and stick the popcorn in the microwave. Start sending applications when the first customer complaints start popping up. You should have a new job by the time the company’s reputation is in flames.

Because the goddamn suits think AI is going to make them more money, despite that it practically uses mined/stolen data and consumes more electricity than a small city.

I'm tired, boss.

I've been thinking about AI in the workspace recently, these companies are implementing AI into everything despite our comments to remove it. that got me thinking, the US is currently in an economic bubble on an empty promise that AI will someday be relevant. It clearly isn't benefiting society as of late, so they encourage workspaces to use it and to continue hoisting the stock market by it's propaganda (that it is relevant).

Because workspaces know the US is in deep shit right now, and so you know what's worse than delivering shitty software, an economic crash.

don't put this on yourself, preserve the shitty code reviews while the US goes through an identity crisis. Investors will inevitably come to the realization that it isn't sustainable.

Get a group of your colleagues together right up a 1-2 page document on how this will FUCK the product and scare the shit out of your management

Where I work the code quality is so bad LLMs were a net improvement

Sounds like someone doesn't know about how copyright works for AI code or any possible liability involved in distributing it. The walls will come tumbling down one of these days, then they'll turn to you to fix it.

Trusting ai with drivers, that's bad...