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My company loves having people shooting out vast amounts of PRs to other teams with surface level fixes to things we’ve been working on for months. You can tell none of them have been tested and only like 50% of them work. It’s infuriating.
Oh yeah, that reminds me of yesterday. There was a problem and I was asked to look together with a guy from another team. The other guy was spinning out and spouting all sorts of wild ass guesses about the behavior and talking and talking about why it might be happening and why it calls for a change that would have been massively a pain in the ass for the user, but in principle would solve the issue if implemented, and pressuring me to make those changes right that second.
I said just wait a moment, gave a patch that just simply fixed the problem, explained the actual root cause, why it was a very quick fix, and used the balance of the time to improve performance because the experience was slower than I liked, even if the customer had not complained about it (something took about 2 minutes that should have been near instant, but they just "assumed that's the way it is").
No AI involved whatsoever, but a very AI like behavior of spouting nonsense that sounds right and just shotgunning off some design in hopes of it doing something, no matter how messy.
Just an example of why AI is so "exciting" in the tech industry, so many are already used to just guessing without understanding and hoping it works.