I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis

Post by solenoid0937 » Sat, May 16, 2026, 9:19 AM UTC

wrxd wrote: post #538

I’m at a FAANG and we have $300/day token quota. Personally I don’t use that much of it but management is pushing really hard for it. “the quota has been raised for a reason, use it”. Any task: “have you tried working on it with Claude?”. Every meeting “now engineer x and y will show you what he did with AI”. It’s not all useless but most of the days I think I would be more productive if some processes were streamlin…

Post by SirHumphrey » Sat, May 16, 2026, 9:20 AM UTC

Swizec wrote: post #494

techblueberry wrote: post #448

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To me the big thing I see in blog posts is this implication that “all software engineering best practices are out the window” And to me, AI should best be used to add rocket fuel to existing practices. Better tests, better observability, more atomic changes instead of big changes, automatic rollback etc.

> And to me, AI should best be used to add rocket fuel to existing practices The more your codebase follows best practices and consistent patterns, the better AI will do and the faster you can move. Same as humans really, just even faster. I'm also excited that people are finally writing docs and without even any flogging! They're calling the docs "skills" but hey whatever works

Post by haneul » Sat, May 16, 2026, 9:26 AM UTC

solenoid0937 wrote: post #591

wrxd wrote: post #538

I’m at a FAANG and we have $300/day token quota. Personally I don’t use that much of it but management is pushing really hard for it. “the quota has been raised for a reason, use it”. Any task: “have you tried working on it with Claude?”. Every meeting “now engineer x and y will show you what he did with AI”. It’s not all useless but most of the days I think I would be more productive if some processes were streamlin…

Also at a FAANG here. Surprised you don't manage to use $300 in a whole day. It's almost trivial to productively use that much in under an hour. Leadership is not being dumb, at least on this topic. If your token usage is that low, you just aren't using AI that much (even if you think you are.)

Post by kunley » Sat, May 16, 2026, 9:28 AM UTC

fuzzy2 wrote: post #518

vividfrier wrote: post #440

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> I feel like I'm in a different field compared to the rest of hacker news. That should be my line. My new employer does not use LLMs at all. Software development, marketing, hardware development, nothing. Maybe too little, but whatever. The problems the company is facing are entirely unrelated to "throughput".

Post by vnaghra » Sat, May 16, 2026, 9:31 AM UTC

solenoid0937 wrote: post #588

32as01 wrote: post #583

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Or he's just giving a sane take, one that most people in the Bay Area have by now. Lots of tech companies are doing just fine with purely AI written code at this point. Saying that the quality is getting worse in some immeasurable way (while incidents remain the same) is literally unfalsifiable.