So much for DARE program. (TikTok screencap)
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I’m a software developer and those who use AI are slower than me lmao
My colleagues use it extensively for coding, I use it barely and we are about the same speed but their code is absolute shit AI slop.
DARE promised me free drugs. What a letdown.
I have figured out where my intense dislike of using AI comes from.
My need for control/understanding stuff I create.
I find the idea of giving up knowledge and skills in favor of statistics based chatbot to be repulsive and extremely dangerous.
I am no systems developer, I am an IT guy, I write some Powershell from time to time to automate stuff, I understand the code, if I didn’t, I would not run it on prod.
A huge amount of why normal office workers like using AI, in my opinion, is that they never learned how make even simple scripts which would have helped them in a lot of their tasks.
And now they use AI to make a computer kinda guess what they wanted, but with no way to verify the code before running it.
I honestly can’t understand why companies/governments/institutions believe that a chatbot is better than a skilled and knowledgable developer.
This is so accurate. And, I had “friends” back in high school, who were very much into meth and very much into sharing.
But every single big meeting at work, is just about AI. it’s just a sales pitch, nothing specific. One of the senior managers emails multiple times a week about fake “wins” due to AI. How, because of AI, some random API is now 4x better! (He doesn’t know what API is…) When I teams opens up, it’s just “AI Bootcamps” plastered everywhere. The intranet homepage, 3 of the 5 things on the carousel is just AI. Multiple “demo days” have just been people showing how they’ve been fucking around in AI and not doing work.
Someone in mgmt, has made it a goal for more AI usage. Put teams on blast who weren’t “using it enough”. Fake metrics of how much good code it’s generated (with no actual examples of course). And yeah, now they’re tracking usage to ensure we get enough AI “touches” a month. They’re monitoring our badge-in (due to RTO) and now they’re monitoring AI adoption and usage.
But just ignore the massive outsourcing to India/SEA… no need to worry about that.
Aint nothing wrong with doing your own little bit of hard work. Shouldn’t be using AI for simple things, or just don’t use it. I think life is more fun that way. idk though, it’s not my business to tell people what to do shrugs
Yeah my manager is tracking my token usage. But not my hemp usage
Tracking tokens not tokes
Tracking Pokémons not pokes
1980s: Please do not use drugs. They seem great at first but you don’t want to get hooked.
2020s: Please DO use the AIs. They seem like shit at first, but you DO want to get hooked because we have about a trillion dollars in new mortgages to keep up with.
I use it at my corporate job to do most of my job now. I still get paid the same regardless if i try harder (without any rewards) or submit to burnout and let the standards slip. Fuck em.
Reminds me of some funny old posts on r/sysadmin of greybeards who had essentially automated their entire jobs and life in perl lol.
Best one was a script that would auto text message his wife he would be coming home late if he still had an active terminal session.
There was a recent post around here or reddit that was about management trying to gauge performance via AI use, and how they had caught on to the token spending tricks people were using, but honestly it doesn’t seem that hard to fake around it if it ever came up.
Just throw some agent work at it like codex and watch it burn tokens running grep lol.
