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Re: Ask HN: Is your company forcing use of AI?

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At least 20% of code must be AI generated with the goal of at least 80% by the end of the year. CEO declared that vibe coders create better solutions because they are “goal oriented” as opposed to traditional coders that are “process oriented”.

The same CEO will have a meltdown over the bugs in an unmanageable codebase next year. Fun times ahead :)

Re: Ask HN: Is your company forcing use of AI?

#72
Yes. However, really it’s our lead VC investors who are forcing it and want to see us have 75-100% AI teams. Yet now we’re in a mini panic after customers said the core functionality of my team’s product isn’t up to muster. So we’ll probably put the AI features on hold while marketing calls our non-AI features “powered by AI”.

I suppose us engineers familiar with the product had just a bit more context than the investors issuing a blanket statement to their portfolios to use AI.

Re: Ask HN: Is your company forcing use of AI?

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Not being forced, but the peer pressure is getting pretty strong.

Claude Code i will admit i find occasionally useful, but the flood of overly verbose and lackingly meaningful "AI Summaries" I'm being forced to waste time reading is really grating on me. Copilot PR summaries turning a 20-line PR into a fifty-line unhelpful essay is driving me insane.

Re: Ask HN: Is your company forcing use of AI?

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post #69

We are forcing non-use because of compliance. There is a fear that the models will scan and steal our proprietary code.

Of course that’s a risk, but is it a different risk than GitHub stealing code from your private repos? In other words, do you just trust the AI companies less or do they not offer “we don’t steal your code” contracts?

Has your company tried running the models locally, or is that maybe just presumed to be not worth the effort?

Re: Ask HN: Is your company forcing use of AI?

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At least 20% of code must be AI generated with the goal of at least 80% by the end of the year. CEO declared that vibe coders create better solutions because they are “goal oriented” as opposed to traditional coders that are “process oriented”.

Godspeed

Re: Ask HN: Is your company forcing use of AI?

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post #33

It's really interesting to see the extreme contrast between the constant praise of AI coding tools here on HN vs the actual real world performance as seen recently on public Microsoft repos, where it utterly fails at even the most basic tasks.

I'm pretty surprised people here are saying anything good about copilot honestly. Its PR summaries and reviews are, for me, basically worthless, and i turned off the autocomplete snippets after the first day when they were always tantalizingly close to being right, but then never actually worked.

Re: Ask HN: Is your company forcing use of AI?

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post #74
post #69

We are forcing non-use because of compliance. There is a fear that the models will scan and steal our proprietary code.

Of course that’s a risk, but is it a different risk than GitHub stealing code from your private repos? In other words, do you just trust the AI companies less or do they not offer “we don’t steal your code” contracts? Has your company tried running the models locally, or is that maybe just presumed to be not worth the effort?

> is it a different risk than GitHub stealing code from your private repos?

Putting company code into a private github repo would be a firing offense where I work.

Re: Ask HN: Is your company forcing use of AI?

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post #79
post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Of course that’s a risk, but is it a different risk than GitHub stealing code from your private repos? In other words, do you just trust the AI companies less or do they not offer “we don’t steal your code” contracts? Has your company tried running the models locally, or is that maybe just presumed to be not worth the effort?

> is it a different risk than GitHub stealing code from your private repos? Putting company code into a private github repo would be a firing offense where I work.

I think GP is talking about the case where the company hosts its code in a private repo.
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