“We were still required to find some ways to use AI. The one corporate AI integration that was available to us was the Copilot plugin to Microsoft Teams. So everyone was required to use that at least once a week. The director of engineering checked our usage and nagged about it frequently in team meetings.”
The managerial idiocy is astounding.
It’s pretty easy to set up a cron job to fire off some sort of bullshit LLM request a handful of times a day during working hours. Just set it and forget it.
you could probably even get copilot to write it!
Not when you have to do SAML authentication to get a token for your AD account first.
You can even schedule it within copilot
He also said the AI-generated code is often full of bugs. He cited one issue that occurred before his arrival that meant there was no session handling in his employer’s application, so anybody could see the data of any organization using his company’s software.
It’s only financial software, NBD.
Well to be fair, financial data should be public, it would stop so many crimes, so much corruption.
Maybe AI saw the problems that hidden financial data causes and just decided to do the world a favor!
These scummy fucks even put it as a requirement in job descriptions these days
What even is the requirement? “Must be able to ask a chatbot to do stuff”?
As per usual, those pushing for AI the most are the ones who don’t fucking use it.
Is AI good for printing out the syntax, or an example of a library you haven’t used before?
Sure, sometimes yes. Sometimes no.
Should it be a requirement to be a regular part of software development?
No. AI hallucinates very often and is imitative in nature, not innovative.
More generally, noone should be required to do anything particular until it affects the team. Forcing people to work a certain way is beyond stupid.
Then unionize! Nothing else will stop this.
Unions is not really a concept that is available to devs. At least around here.
I just attended an organizer training, and 70% of the people there were devs. Don’t believe the corporate bullshit, unions are for everyone.
No need to unionise when you have the power to make a startup.
But then first you need the power and ability to make a startup.
I’ve been refusing to use any AI tools at all and luckily my manager respects that, even if he uses AI for basically everything he does. If the company ever decides to mandate it I’ll just have the AI write all my code and commit it with no checks. With the worker’s rights here, it’ll take several months to fire me anyways.
This is just history repeating itself. A while ago it was typewriter repair persons vs. the keyboard. New tech won and time marched on. Having said that…fuck AI.
