small rant incoming
I work for a company that it’s mostly hardware focused, but we do ship some software for the final consumer including drivers and programs, to make use of said hardware.
While I am not in the software department, I held some SWE positions in previous companies for over a decade, our software isn’t very complex and I do know most of it pretty well.
Our employee just announced a new AI-only development cycle, they want all code submissions and reviews to be exclusively done by claude, effectively ending ownership of the code being shipped to customers. This is absolute madness.
Today, I received an email scheduling a workshop on how to integrate claude into vscode and how to work with the new gitflow, namely removing our authorship from commits and having al code reviews done by a LLM now.
I am just baffled at the decision.
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Because the goddamn suits think AI is going to make them more money, despite that it practically uses mined/stolen data and consumes more electricity than a small city.
Sounds like someone doesn’t know about how copyright works for AI code or any possible liability involved in distributing it. The walls will come tumbling down one of these days, then they’ll turn to you to fix it.
I was fired for pointing out dangers of AI and data centers. I would do it again
AI is a NAZI dragnet that the corpos want you to pay for like “stop hitting yourself nerd”
Trusting ai with drivers, that’s bad…
I’m retired, so I don’t have to deal with this AI garbage… but I have a friend who’s a manager of a decent-sized office at an accounting firm.
He told me recently that, not only are all employees required to use AI in their daily work, but my friend has to write weekly reports to his bosses on how AI is improving workflow in the office. He’s not allowed to say, “It’s not.” Only positive feedback. They need to justify its continued use, so he needs to find benefits to report to the higher-ups.
Sadly, he’s the only one who doesn’t like/use AI. Everyone else in his office has basically replaced their jobs with it. Every report that comes across his desk is AI nonsense, which he has to spend time fixing because his subordinates don’t know how to write reports without AI assistance.
I do not envy my friend.
my friend has to write weekly reports to his bosses on how AI is improving workflow in the office. He’s not allowed to say, “It’s not.” Only positive feedback. They need to justify its continued use, so he needs to find benefits to report to the higher-ups.
All right Claude, you know the drill. Write this week’s report.
For the most part, I am an AI sceptic. My firm has had access to and beta tested every Google AI model since before the AI had a name (yes, well before Bard). We also have access to ChatGPT, Claude and locally run models on dedicated hardware. I’ll save you the suspense, at the moment it’s all mostly trash. Barely a proof of concept. Definitely not production ready, but there are a few exceptions I, personally, have found.
Gemini Pro is excellent at identifying and diagnosing sick garden plants if you take and upload a photos of the plants. Unfortunately, it still cannot do simple arithmetic. A simple SUM that any spreadsheet does automatically by just highlighting the cells, and somehow it was still off by one.
For software dev, the only one product we have found to be useful is Claude, BUT it really depends on the model. Haiku is a joke. Sonnet is not bad, if not bad is ~50% accuracy. Opus is fairly descent at building scaffolding that you can then correct and complete, but don’t expect efficient code.
The only model we have ever tested that can deliver ALMOST fully functional code, reliably diagnose errors, and review code is Mythos/Fable. Genuinely not absolute shite, BUT that shit is extremely slow and outrageously expensive. I seriously doubt that your company is forking out the money for Claude Fable as their default model, and if they are, they must not care about ever making a profit.
Get a group of your colleagues together right up a 1-2 page document on how this will FUCK the product and scare the shit out of your management
