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Ask HN: What would happen if your company stopped using all AI tomorrow?

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Re: Ask HN: What would happen if your company stopped using all AI tomorrow?

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Pretty much nothing. We'd remove the AI integrations, the UI elements, then back to where we were. Luckily, we have no load bearing AI. But if everyone else got to keep their AI, we'd lose customers very quickly.

>Luckily, we have no load bearing AI. Is this a subtle joke?

>Is this a subtle joke?

Proper weight distribution is critical in determining where the seams are.

Re: Ask HN: What would happen if your company stopped using all AI tomorrow?

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The effort required to do most jobs has gone down and so has the output quality. Rather than doing the same quality work with less effort, some people use LLMs to produce minimum-quality work at minimum effort. LLMs are a cool tool but we’re over-encouraging use in every domain, even tasks they’re not good at. Every tech company in the world seems to be getting rich though how can I possibly say things would be bette…

> and so has the output quality

Not my experience at all. The quality has gone up dramatically. Because we also use LLMs to make large scale refactorings that cleans up the code and use it to find lots of bugs that would otherwise have exploded in production at some point in time.

Re: Ask HN: What would happen if your company stopped using all AI tomorrow?

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Personally I would be lost, because we've implemented everything around AI, more than a year ago with the assumption that models will keep getting better so the importance of building the tooling around it is capital and we've made the right choice, now close to ALL issues and features and customer requests are automatically solved. The main issue I see is that currently managing 70 repos would just be physically imp…

I love the "IYKYK" as a kind of in joke among AI psychosis enjoyers.

Re: Ask HN: What would happen if your company stopped using all AI tomorrow?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had this conversation recently. Not only are search engines and comment threads getting filled with AI responses, but people are increasingly sounding like AI themselves. This makes it even harder to distinguish. Related to code quality, I've noticed developers picking up tricks from AI. Like using feature/xxxxx as the branch name. Last year exactly zero developers used this convention. If any used paths in their b…

I think this is just a Jira/bitbucket thing. If you add a feature branch, that's how the naming convention defaults. I've been seeing it for years.

Linear does this, too. It provides a button that copies a branch name to the clipboard based on the ticket id/name.

Re: Ask HN: What would happen if your company stopped using all AI tomorrow?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

so ironic to see “load bearing” in a comment about removing AI. certain phrases have been ruined by fable/opus 5 for all time.

I had this conversation recently. Not only are search engines and comment threads getting filled with AI responses, but people are increasingly sounding like AI themselves. This makes it even harder to distinguish. Related to code quality, I've noticed developers picking up tricks from AI. Like using feature/xxxxx as the branch name. Last year exactly zero developers used this convention. If any used paths in their b…

Feat/ or dev-initials/ or fix/ all very common pre-ai in my companies
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