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Aye, same boat here. I protested quite vocally, but politely, when our CEO wanted to stick copilot everywhere. Got reprimanded in private by my manager. CEO still stands firm on "you should use AI for everything!"
I tried, they didn't want to hear it. I don't really know what else I can, or should do. I just don't use it, and have blocked it from my sight as well as I can.
I will still be honest and tell people why I am against it if someone asks, I won't lie, but I'll just keep quiet unprompted. Holding on to my "told you" for an appropriate moment I guess.
Except your manager now "tells you" that your productivity should be +50% and if it isn't...
Nah, fortunately my manager is a good guy, CEO is just a pissy finance guy who got butthurt being disagreed with publicly and probably was on my manager's ass about it. He mainly criticised me, that I should've come to him first to discuss my concerns, and he would've helped me bring it up to thinskin execs privately.
I disagree with him, but get his point. I mean, the CEO did ask for comments during the meeting, I had comments
¯\_(ツ)_/¯Kinda sounds like CEO wanted to fire you, and manager had to stick their neck out to keep you.
I mean, even if he did want to, he couldn't. Labour laws in my country are fortunately quite robust. I'm pretty sure my manager didn't score any extra points with him, though, that's for sure.
Well, if they insist so much on using it, you should oblige.
Hey AI, make this email I have to send twice as long.
Hey AI, take notes about this meeting while I do something else.
Hey AI, reply to this company wide Teams post with the most empty, meaningless, long winded reply possible.
Damn, you were right Mr. CEO, this AI is helping me write sooooo much better ;)
I’m skeptical about a lot of things about it in general, but I found it really helpful in one particular scenario: I’m learning a new framework and I type out something I think is right, but is not, I ask it why it’s not working and how to fix it. It pulls all the relevant files and errors from the IDE and tells me something. Sometimes I have to remind it to use a different version of the framework as it has a different approach slightly, but overall it helped me find and figure out quite a lot of issues. But my codebase is pretty small still, I don’t use it to engineer big changes.
i kinda feel like you could do better with the basics of good documentation, good tutorials, and good training. is AI really helping in the long run?
I mean, has it's uses for sure, but the scope in which people are deploying these cookiecutter generalist LLMs and expecting bloody miracles is unrealistic. Plus, I like my privacy, AI's are kind of an antithesis of that. Environmental cost is way too high as well.
It's a tool, and it can be used successfully, but it's so inefficient that I can't justify it personally.