All of my coworkers and boss are anti-AI; except me and the coop.
Not using AI is akin to not using an IDE to program. Sure you can code in vim or notepad, but surely there's better options?
Ask HN: Is your company forcing use of AI?
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#103My company has plans to evaluate AI use in performance reviews. (Don't ask me how that will be measured—I'd love to know myself.)
We've also been forced to use it for a few projects that it ...didn't work very well for. (Though to be fair other departments have found some valid and helpful uses for it.)
It feels like way more time is being spent trying to make AI work than will ever be saved by using it—at least for me. The time spent finding + giving context, prompting, generating, sifting through garbage outputs, then finally editing whatever output is given (which is required 100% of the time) is usually greater than the time required to just do the thing.
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wait. You don’t review code any longer? Are you sure that’s wise? Or is that not what you mean?
No, I use AI for initial reviews before I make a PR. It's excellent. Humans are still in the loop after that.
Ah, that’s a good use of it. Thanks for clarifying.
The last place I worked at had bots reviewing bot PRs and passing them. It went about as well as you’d expect.
Re: Ask HN: Is your company forcing use of AI?
#105Using Gemini Pro. No, I adopted it all on my own, but work pays. I love it, even though I can't use it on everything. Most developers here are using it, with approval on a per-projext basis. Lately it's taken over code reviews, for myself and when I review other people's code. Extremely helpful. It's made software development fun again.
I'm building a tool to do code reviews too. Are you open to trying it?