When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing

Post by soared » Wed, May 06, 2026, 2:09 AM UTC

bonesss wrote: post #173

dakiol wrote: post #126

If you're a regular engineer like me, there's no real upside to using AI in a company setting. They're boiling us. Of course, the HN elite (investors, execs, celebrities, and top-tier engineers) will say otherwise because "how can you be against innovation man?" AI/LLMs aren't innovation the way TCP/IP, linux, or postgres were. To be clear: claude/codex/gemini/grok/whatever exist for profit, to squeeze the last drop…

There’s an engineering story of being abused by capitalists, but from an Executive perspective the whole thing strikes me as insane except for ‘next quarters bonus’. Anyone remember what SCO did to the industry as it went under? The part I still don’t get is where Enterprises are dumping internal ‘secrets’ (code, processes, customer needs, internal politics, leadership dreams), into the hands of startups and untrustw…

Post by gnabgib » Wed, May 06, 2026, 2:14 AM UTC

soared wrote: post #241

bonesss wrote: post #173

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There’s an engineering story of being abused by capitalists, but from an Executive perspective the whole thing strikes me as insane except for ‘next quarters bonus’. Anyone remember what SCO did to the industry as it went under? The part I still don’t get is where Enterprises are dumping internal ‘secrets’ (code, processes, customer needs, internal politics, leadership dreams), into the hands of startups and untrustw…

What is sco?

Post by hnisforrtards » Wed, May 06, 2026, 2:44 AM UTC

Post by Atotalnoob » Wed, May 06, 2026, 3:50 AM UTC

p1necone wrote: post #239

patch_dev wrote: post #230

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I see this take all the time, but hiring a junior/intern has never been great ROI, so I hear. Why did we ever do it in the past? Its not like it was ever likely that hiring a junior means getting an employee for life. Could it be that the economic and shareholder pressures are requiring this rather than it being a logical thing?

Anecdotal counterpoint, the best teams I've been on have always had a good mix of a couple of really senior/decent intermediate people and a few either totally fresh grads or juniors (at the beginning of the project). Those fresh people have a good chance of becoming pretty formidable pretty quickly with the right mentoring, and without them seniors have a tendency to just remain experts on whatever tech stack they'r…

Post by froh » Wed, May 06, 2026, 5:02 AM UTC

ge96 wrote: post #119

pards wrote: post #7

In my large enterprise world, AI adoption hasn't made it outside of the development teams - only developers have access to Github Copilot. Code takes 6-12 months to make it from commit to production. Development speed was never the bottleneck; it's all the other processes that take time: infra provisioning, testing, sign-offs, change management, deployment scheduling etc. AI makes these post-development bottlenecks w…

> Code takes 6-12 months to make it from commit to production. That seems wild, niche/highly specialized field?