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I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis

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Re: I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis

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Post by empath75 »

projectazorian wrote: post #196
gopalv wrote: post #60

The AI psychosis is not the anti-opinion to the use of AI. I use AI coding tools every day, but AI tools have no concept of the future. The selfish thinking that an engineer has when they think "If this breaks in prod, I won't be able to fix it. And they'll page me at 3AM" we've relied on to build stable systems. The general laziness of looking for a perfect library on CPAN so that I don't have to do this work (often…

> I use AI coding tools every day, but AI tools have no concept of the future. The selfish thinking that an engineer has when they think "If this breaks in prod, I won't be able to fix it. And they'll page me at 3AM" we've relied on to build stable systems. Maybe it's just my prompt or something but my coding agent (Opus 4.7 based) says things like "this is the kind of thing that will blow up at 2am six months from n…

It's really inconsistent though.. it takes shortcuts and leaves todos all the time without really calling it out explicitly, you have to pay close attention.

Re: I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis

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Post by Simon_O_Rourke »

I'm just waiting for my current company to have a Sev 1 CritSit so I can document the bejesus out of the root cause and expose our non-technical AI evangelist leadership as the sort of goons most of the senior development staff already suspect.

Only by walking us into some revenue or customer impacting failure - through inappropriately having junior devs doing senior level things - will some sense of sanity start to prevail again.

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Post by iamacyborg »

Company I just left is reportedly now using Claude to analyse the metadata generated from the company MDM that tracks actual laptop use, and then pulling people up if they're not working "enough".

They're also reportedly now giving staff AI-related "homework" in an attempt to force staff to use AI more.

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Post by Sharlin »

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.)

Do you even realize how insane your comment is?

"If you aren't donating at least your salary's worth of company money to another company every day, are you even working?"

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Post by jqpabc123 »

Corporate management in the USA is focused on the short term and reactionary.

Changing this focus is not easy but one thing that will usually do the trick is economic issues.

In other words; in order to get any serious consideration, something has to be broken.

AI is perfectly capable of doing this given enough time.

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Post by Applejinx »

consumer451 wrote: post #582
hliyan wrote: post #523

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is actually not a bad exam to administer: https://ncees.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/FINAL_PE-Electr...

In the Civil & Structural world, there is no greater honor than to be on the standards committee. I hope that this becomes a thing in Software Engineering.

Imagine how much money will go into lobbying for some particular AI to BE the standards committee.
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