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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/55496692

Devs gripe about having AI shoved down their throats

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[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

"For example, we had our own Github, so we couldn't use their Github Copilot license," he explained. "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."

"To satisfy the boss, I started using the Teams Copilot AI to get answers for questions I would previously have Googled," he said. "Questions such as the syntax for a particular command or an idea for setting up a new (to me) process. Sometimes the answers were perfect. Sometimes they were useless. Once, I spent three hours trying to get the AI's suggestion for a Docker problem to work before I gave up and Googled the correct answer in two minutes."

doG help us all.

We thought these new technologies would help humanity, to have more time to concentrate on the real work. Instead they're being used to exploit us even more, and in such a stupid way.

It's one of those things where having even the slightest bit of insight, you can predict that this is going to crash big time, eventually. Yet the people who should don't listen. And then, when it inevitably happens, everyone is very surprised indeed. And somebody who knew it, just like you and thousands of other people, will be celebrated as some sort of prophet. We truly live in a dark age.

[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 3 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

I would make Thursday AI day and do everything with AI. And Friday is recovery day, where I discard everything that didn't work, and do what I want, to recover motivation for long-term sustainability.

I wonder if and when they would notice a productivity difference. I certainly couldn't and wouldn't be able to do that indefinitely.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 1 points 12 hours ago

I certainly couldn’t and wouldn’t be able to do that indefinitely.

You mean the topic of the article, or what you just wrote?