Most of these decisions were not made by people who understood the limits of the technology.

The uncomfortable part of all this is that it is not a technology problem. It is a leadership problem. AI does not make bad executives worse. It gives them a faster way to prove they are bad. The leaders still standing in 2030 will be the ones honest enough to put the rehiring cost in the business case before the ink dries on the layoff letter.

ROFL

  • NekoKoneko@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    I’m not sure if you work in tech, but I have a front row seat from people very near to me. Some people are AI-assisted or vibe coding very discrete projects that are useful, but those are the senior people who understand the limitations of the LLMs and how to put up project- and enterprise-codebase-specific guardrails during prompting.

    Junior coders are producing worthless unworking or buggy code that is worse than unproductive - it is slowing down the productive senior coders who need to review it (because the junior coders don’t understand enough to know what is even wrong with it). That’s if it gets reviewed. Plenty of tech are allowing AI code to be directly merged in some cases, creating quite a few bug/security time-bombs that will explode in the next few years.

    That doesn’t even get into the non-coding AI magical thinking around UX, design, and all the related fields - people are using it because they’re afraid, to please the c-suite, even though it isn’t solving any problem faster or better than a skilled human.

    It’s a speculative bubble but with a mirage of productivity. Most tech employees are using it similarly according to the greater-fool theory, selling hype to the next fool at an optics profit. That will end sooner or later.