I usually use AI to draw pictures, write texts, and organize materials. For example, when I make PPT or WeChat articles, I let AI help me come up with titles and polish paragraphs, which saves me a lot of time.
Ask HN: Is your company forcing use of AI?
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Re: Ask HN: Is your company forcing use of AI?
#52Not forced but the tooling has been made available to those who ask. Work have provided Microsoft Copilot through Teams and Github Copilot through my IDE of choice.
I found the Microsoft Copilot to be reasonably good when given a complete context with extremely limited scope such as being provided a WSDL for a SOAP service and asked to write functions that make calls and then writing unit tests for the whole thing. This had a right way and a wrong way of doing things and it did it almost perfectly.
However, if you give it any problem that requires imagination with n+1 ways of being done it flounders and produces mostly garbage.
Compared to the Microsoft Copilot I found the Github Copilot to feel lobotomised! It failed on the aforementioned WSDL task and where Microsoft's could be asked "what inconsistencies can you see in this WSDL" and catch all of them, Github's was unable to answer beyond pointing out a spelling mistake I had already made it aware of.
I have personally tinkered with Claude, and its quite impressive.
My colleagues have had similar experiences, with some uninstalling the AI tooling out of frustration at how "useless" it is. Others, like myself, have begun using it for the grunt work; mostly as "inteligent boilerplate generator."
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#53The following is a year 2,065 Bed Time Story featuring a childhood lesson of being adaptable: "Near the end of the 2020s those who rejected AI out of misunderstanding were left behind; those who embraced it grew wealthy and powerful. Meanwhile, the anti-adopters lived miserably, consumed by resentment, blaming everyone and everything for their plight except themselves and their own failure to adapt."
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Your post is on a new account and the style is indirect and presumptuous. It says little more than 'I think ML tools are great'; it just does it in a way designed to annoy people. That would be my guess as to why it was downvoted.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
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#54We recently got Claude Code and there is a very strong push to use it. I recently did for the first time. Spent 15 minutes writing a long prompt to implement a ticket. A repeated pattern of code, 5 classes + config per topic that deeply interact with each other and it did the job perfectly. It convinced me that the current code monkey jobs, which are >90%, >95%? of software engineering jobs, will disappear within 10…
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When the cognitive dissonance hits you in the face like a truck, you hit that button!
Re: Ask HN: Is your company forcing use of AI?
#55We recently got Claude Code and there is a very strong push to use it. I recently did for the first time. Spent 15 minutes writing a long prompt to implement a ticket. A repeated pattern of code, 5 classes + config per topic that deeply interact with each other and it did the job perfectly. It convinced me that the current code monkey jobs, which are >90%, >95%? of software engineering jobs, will disappear within 10…
I think I have a pretty different view, though maybe it hinges on the bit about 9 in 10 software people being code monkeys, or what that means. To the extent I agree that LLMs are going to eliminate coding jobs (permanently), they're going to be the ones you could basically do with StackOverflow and Google (when those things worked).
I think there's a cohort thing going on here, because Google has been spam rekt for long enough that entire classes of students have graduated, entered the workforce, and been promoted all since search and SO went to hell, so the gizmo that has the working code and you just need to describe it seems totally novel.
But we've been through this before: one day there's this box and you type a question and bam, reasonable code. Joing a FAANG is kind of like that too: you do the mega grep for parse_sockaddr_trie and there's this beautifully documented thing with like, here's the paper where it shows its O(ln).
But you call the thing and it seems to work and you send the diff and the senior person is like, that doesn't do IPv6 and that's rolling to us next quarter, you should add IPv6. And the thing was exploiting the octets and so its hard.
The thing is, a sigmoid looks exactly like an exponential when you're standing on it. But it never is. Even a nuclear bomb is exponential very briefly (and ChatGPT is not a nuclear bomb, not if it was 100x more capable).
Think about defense, or trading, or anything competitive like that: now you need the LLM because the other guy has it too. But he's not watching YouTube all day, he's still chain-smoking and taking adderall except he has an LLM now too.
So yeah, in the world where any of 9 TypeScript frameworks would all make roughly the same dark mode website and any of them get the acquisition done because really the founder knows a guy? That job is really risky right now.
But low effort shit is always risky unless you're the founder who knows a guy.
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#57No, but I wish it did for stuff like summarizing meetings, etc. Everybody focuses on programming, but the real value in is project management imho.
if we get “ai” to summarize meetings why not use that summary to get “ai” to implement the ideas from that meeting while we are sipping coffee and reading the paper? :)
I'd be happy if it could use its transcript to:
- update docs
- update user stories on whatever project tracking tool you use
- check for inconsistencies between requirements and current flows
Those are all things that should be trivial-ish for an AI, and where the real value-speed up is.
Re: Ask HN: Is your company forcing use of AI?
#58It's not forced, but the atmosphere has definitely shifted. These days, before we even start on a task, the first question is often "Can we solve this with AI?" Over time, it starts to feel like we're working around the tool instead of focusing on the actual problem.
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#59Encouraged for learning/examples, the company has an enterprise subscription for employees.
Permitted for development with the explicit caveat that code is always the responsibility of the people connected to the pull request.
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#60Using 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.
had not considered this obvious application of ai , may I ask how the review quality fares (ie. does ai supplement human review or act on its own) ?
I use AI to review before a PR. Humans take it from there.
Quality far exceeds that of human reviews. It's becoming my favorite use case for AI.