Once upon a time, a few individuals had (or copied, or stole) a few interesting and/or feasible ideas, then they migrated from around the country’s universities into Silicon Valley. There, they were told via an insane spigot of money that they were “god’s gift to humanity” or some such bullshit.
These individuals, already flawed like all humans, believed their own hype, became “tech bros”, and attracted other mediocre assholes, like a plague descending upon an already ruthless Silicon Valley industry. Right around this time, no coincidence, the red pill started being passed around more openly every goddamned day.
Already corrupted in this way, and getting worse every day, it’s as if they were self-importantly pondering what their “next big thing” was going to be… “We’re supposed to be the geniuses! Investment capital is counting on us!”… then lo and behold, they found something! Up their own ass! And it sucks! Because these distorted tech bro assholes lost the true plot long ago.
Welcome to the glorious world of managing. It sounds great but it required attention, a calm demeniour and corrections/adjustments. There is no free lunch on the corporate ladder of shit. You might dig the hole, plan the hole, supervise the hole. Only the man that owns the hole is getting a free lunch in this long centipede of shit.
AI? No. Machine learning? Possibly.
I’m just lazy and don’t care about the quality of my work. It’s a job. My boss doesn’t know the difference anyway.
Counterpoint: To afford housing I must demonstrate to my boss that I’m using AI daily.
Seriously, my old boss was very upfront with that metric, as well as goals for completing ai training. I don’t mind the training goal to much since it’s always good to learn more about technologies, but it was specific classes that were entirely bullshit.
But using ai every day? And we live in fear of the next round of layoffs and whether that will be the criteria, rather than how well you do your job
New boss hasn’t said anything, but I’ve give back to using ai when it may be useful. That’s probably stupid on my part, even self-sabotage, because reality is real
Me too, but then I used AI to automate my use of AI and now I don’t have to worry about AI anymore.
Wheels withing wheels withing wheels…
Can’t he just ask his AI to demonstrate it for him?
Yes but he’d need an AI to write the prompt to get the AI to demonstrate it.
Counter-counterpoint: The company is going to go bust. Get a job somewhere where you don’t do that before you’re forced to.
Demonstrate how? How’s your boss monitoring that?
I’m in the same situation where management has mandated daily AI usage. Cursor is the tool we use, and group-level usage monitoring is built right in. I assume that functionality exists for billing purposes, but managers are just as happy to use it to spy on us.
Seriously? Damn I haven’t activated my cursor license yet. I use copilot when appropriate, and I don’t believe that has spying so I don’t “get credit” for it
I’ve taken to impersonating clanker when I message him
“Roger Roger!”
So that’s what vibe coding is.
I need AI to do my job though.
It helps (sometimes) in my job, but I wouldn’t be jobless if it went away tomorrow. I also try to only use it for very mundane tasks, because otherwise I would stop thinking for myself and that’s what really ruins programming and makes you stupid.
Maybe. So far I think I’ve been doing well since ai may help coding but is never the final iteration. It does take some skill and intelligence to revignize what needs improvement and how to get the ai to do it, or when the ai can’t help anymore and you need to turn it into maintainable code by hand
My entire company is based around AI.
