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Some Amazon employees said they were still sceptical of AI tools’ utility for the bulk of their work given the risk of error. They added that the company had set a target for 80 per cent of developers to use AI for coding tasks at least once a week and was closely tracking adoption.

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[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I don't get these companies that are trying to force AI down people's throats.

I really like how mine is handling this. They gave us Gemini like 6 months ago, along with about a paragraph at most saying that we must stop using AI services from unvetted providers (GPT, etc) with company or customer data, because we needed to have legal agreements in place for that.

Nobody ever mentioned it again, at all. They probably provided us with that AI because we had people using all sorts of services and it was becoming a nightmare, so they signed some contract to cover data protection requirements and said "here, use this one if you must".

Now it's just there. There's zero pressure to use it. Some Google guys wanted to come over to make some presentations, some people signed up for those but they were entirely optional.

You use it if you have a use case for it, or don't, doesn't matter. The only metrics are the one we've always had - deliver good work, on time. How you do that is up to you.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 1 day ago

We had a 4 hour lecture on AI safety. It really could have been an email.

[–] PeroBasta@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

In my company we use google workplace and we all have gemini pro. Im sysadmin but i would never use it since they are tracking all the prompts and could be analyzed by my company as well

[–] Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca 62 points 1 day ago (1 children)

imo, all Amazon employees should do 100% of the work in ai. don't review it afterwards, just push it to live. if these companies want it so bad, literally give it to them. WHEN shit breaks, blame their tools. use AI to fix, rinse and repeat. let these companies kill themselves from the inside.

[–] Kissaki@feddit.org 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Even if the goal is not to kill the company, provoking the expected risks through malicious compliance is a good way to demonstrate the risks and push for a more careful and skeptical assessment and use.

[–] itsathursday@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

No fuck that noise, there is no “I told you so” that will ever lead to understanding. Experts with experience in their fields should be respected and their advice followed, no exceptions.

[–] Trigger2_2000@sh.itjust.works 2 points 23 hours ago

I'm shocked, just shocked!

I also think they should increase their use of AI - no matter what the cost.

'cause they so stupid!

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 1 points 20 hours ago

Lol, this made my day way brighter. Thank you.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 43 points 1 day ago (1 children)

AI "safety experts": AI is so powerful, it'll turn into Hackerbot and take down websites on its own!

AI in real life: so crappy that developers who trust it will break their own websites with the code it makes

[–] morto@piefed.social 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We got to give them due credit. They were spot on on the end result, but just missed on the cause leading to it lol

[–] XLE@piefed.social 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's almost like ~~industry mouthpieces~~ safety experts want us to believe AI is super capable, when the real danger is it's super incapable...

[–] JustARegularNerd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Some Amazon employees said they were still sceptical of AI tools’ utility for the bulk of their work given the risk of error. They added that the company had set a target for 80 per cent of developers to use AI for coding tasks at least once a week and was closely tracking adoption.

Our product is so good, we mandate our employees to use it and watch them closely to make sure they do!

[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I wasted an hour this week expaining to CoPilot why it was wrong and dismissing every suggestion it made in a code review. In all of it, it didn't spot a legitimate problem. It's running at a near 100% false positive rate. I absolutely would not accept a code suggestion from it blindly.

[–] BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't think they're capable of learning from their mistakes, the probability engine and underlying model data will remain the same. It might 'learn' briefly while the conversation history remains current, but will forget it all.

I could be wrong. I just recall trying to teach it something a year or two ago and it was unable to learn.

[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

The last AI that Microsoft made capable of learning turned into a Nazi within hours.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 10 points 1 day ago

I know it's not the same company, but that sure is a far cry from:

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Tuesday said that as much as 30% of the company’s code is now written by artificial intelligence.

Sounds like AI contracts aren't the only thing getting quietly scaled back.

[–] violentfart@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The mouth-breathing AI-bros that present to our very large company are revolting. In our industry the accuracy of our software is literally life or death.

And the presenter is all “teehee look at how cool it sorta kinda made a shitty web app to look at cats on a map and it took 5 tries to make it display a pulldown in the correct order teehee”

Yea dude, your middle school project isn’t impressing anyone.

I wouldn’t be so angry if we weren’t actually giving them money.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wouldn’t be so angry if we weren’t actually giving them money.

Don't sell yourself short. I have a feeling that you'd find another way to be angry

[–] violentfart@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We're all vibe coders on this blessed day.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Vibe coders did nothing wrong.

[–] ace_garp@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

'Eat your own dog food', but the dog food is cooked chicken bones.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 2 points 1 day ago

It was delivered to the other coast