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

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Post by hacb »

We're among the companies that decided to be "AI-first" - whatever that means. They are spending huge amount of money and effort to deploy AI tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, etc.

I'm kinda worried about how the massive usage of AI coding tool will affect the understanding of large codebases and complex systems, but to be totally honest I'm really impressed by Claude Code and how it can write Terraform/Helm/Ruby based on the company's idioms (and I'm talking about a repository with 250k+ lines of HCL!).

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

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Post by javascriptpy »

The 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."

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

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Post by smokel »

Traubenfuchs wrote: post #13

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

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Post by lordnacho »

Yes, and we even hired a guy to do it. He's a young fellow who has been using every AI tool under the sun, seemingly forever. Also well connected in the space. He comes up with various suggestions about how to use all the tools.

I'm certainly seeing the benefits. A lot of tasks are faster with AI. Even some quite fiddly bits of log-diving and finding subtle bugs can be done by AI, which would have taken me considerably longer.

I'm still finding that overall architecture needs to be done by me, though. Once you make the task big enough, AI goes off the rails and makes some really odd stuff.

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

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Post by hacb »

smokel wrote: post #20

It would also be interesting to know how using AI is encouraged. What are best practices? What tools are genuinely helpful, such as automatic reviews in a build street, or sentiment analysis in commit messages?

In our case, we have strong security guidance about which MCP to use and how; otherwise we're free to use the coding AI tool of our choice (Claude Code, Cursor, ...). There's not KPI about LLM usage _yet_, but I feel it coming soon.

There are also many workshops about how to build with AI etc, so it's slowly becoming part of everyone's work

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

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Post by javascriptpy »

smokel wrote: post #23
Traubenfuchs wrote: post #13

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

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Post by Traubenfuchs »

smokel wrote: post #23
Traubenfuchs wrote: post #13

We 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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I forgive them, they are scared because their future looks as bleak as mine and that naturally causes strong emotions.

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

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Post by frocodillo »

No one’s being forced, but we’re encouraged to explore and experiment with AI tools. And not just for writing code. It's a quite firm belief in the company as a whole that the winners in the 'AI age' will be the companies that are able to utilize AI tools improve their internal workflows and become more productive. So we get to try out lots of different things, and we make sure to share our learnings with each other.
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