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How does AI affect your work?
I am sure many people here work in the tech industry, or at least in companies that have started integrating AI into their workflows.
What concerns me is how many leaders are getting so delusional that believe AI is the silver bullet that can be used to replace most developers or magically fix complex problems.
The people working in tech are suffering from all these KPIs and OKRs set by the higher-ups that basically boil down to: "Use AI at all cost". That resulting in people integrating with AI just so that they can fulfill the requirement set by their boss.
Meanwhile, deep down people are getting burned out from all this AI slop, people no longer put in the emotions or have the pride in working on a product / system when it becomes an endless cycle of prompting / trial-and-error just to get the fancy autocomplete (LLM) to produce something that matches expectations.
How far has the AI hype gone in your company? Any examples that AI genuinely helped to improve your workflow? Any poorly executed use cases that actually backfired?
For me, I am getting tired of all this AI slop. I am spending more time than ever at work so I don't get laid off. I am also not sure whether it is a good time to change my job or every companies out there just pushing the same goal. Don't get me wrong, AI can be pretty good and helpful, but the way it is being pushed and implemented nowadays is pretty depressing.
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My work mostly revolves around reverse engineering Javascript. Codex can really help with pinpointing where to look, thereby making my job way more efficient.
Could it do the whole job on it's own? Maybe.. But it'd require too much handholding for it to be worth it.
It is honestly horrible thing.
On positive note:
AI hasn’t replaced any developers here. It just replaced StackOverflow with a more confident liar.
As for the future? Only the liar can predict it.
not me.
More helpful than not.
For example, other day had a DNS cluster issue. Always DNS, right?
Realized I could be lazy and create a couple quick bash scripts. One for checking the sync status (runs every 15 minutes) and another general health script that runs once every 24 hours. Sync status script only emails me if something is out of sync. Daily health check consists of things like Number of Zones, +/- how many since last run, number of records, +/- since last run, and some general system stats. Nothing too fancy but a good "at a glance" check of things.
Did I need AI to do this? Nah, could have easily referenced some manuals and Stackoverflow for whatever I couldn't figure out on my own. But it saved me a lot of time letting AI do it for me and helps me get alerted of a potential syncing error or something before a customer reports some DNS fuckery.
I lost my job because of AI last year. I worked in support. After losing my job I started my own company with the purpose of helping people physically (as opposed to helping on a job remotely). This approach did not work due to how AI made all components expensive, limiting my ability as startup to help others with low income. As such, I had to rethink my usefulness and decided to quit it all. I shall no longer work with computers or servers. I intend to find a job that requires hands-on work, outside tech, out of AI's way.
Meanwhile I deeply appreciate AI. I actually love it. It's just a too great and too powerful tool. It represents a necessary step in our evolution and many rich guys are quite right to invest in it. Hopefully it will be used for the best of humanity and not just for greed and profits, but I guess time will tell.
At first I was deeply depressed, but now I know it is not a worker's fault that the old mechanics of money and profits can't be applied in the grand scheme of civilisation's transformation using AI. We are still many, many small creatures on a rock, we have to think beyond this rock and beyond grabbing more and more — maybe AI will help us get there. This should have started at some point, it might as well be now, but we're the lucky generation to witness this leap forward — wherever this leads. It's somewhat sad seeing this major leap impacting ways of life, but it's also so beautiful because it shows our flaws in our beauty — we already had the evolutionary answers there, AI simply compiles and provides these for us extremely fast as a powerful tool.
That's perfectly fine when you are both the owner of the company and the one running it. I am talking about any companies with 50 or more people where it is not up to you to decide which thing can or cannot use AI anymore.
like I said in another post, it's interesting because I'm a lead dev in NY and most of my friends (and myself) have been told to vibe code as much as possible from here on out. I've been coding since I was 10. I'll find a way to code here and there, but I don't see myself doing it the way I did in the foreseeable future. I still consider myself a dev/engineer at my core.
I had been on low-code development for a long time, I built a team for a major corp around a project that I designed/built myself like 8 years ago. Now I have a team of devs I can disperse work to and all I can think to do is use AI to evolve the project. Set it up in a way that the devs maintain and evolve a complicated framework that's ultra abstracted.. this allows for more UI/GUI layers to tools.
This is my way of trying to survive and help my team survive. People like fluff, if you have a defined, stable and secure framework driving the fluff.. ask the AI to focus there -- let product/design do the opposite. But yeah, overall.. I think it’s unavoidable.. I have more work being churned out and PRs to review that no one really actually looked at or coded themselves.. but this is looking like the future.
Hi,
for developers who work(ed) as coders AI is basically hell.
realize that what they need weeks and months for, AI does in minuets with maybe or maybe not bombs and traps inside that you should find before its exploding at the customer, while its "your" code and responsibility..
being downgraded to code reviewer's not code makers
no art, no satisfaction with their own work, no identifying with "their" code/project
much higher expectations from the boss / project manager from 0 to production ready in lower time
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for developers who work(ed) as project managers, AI is basically heaven.
no (unclear) timespan until code is delivered from the coders
(much) faster issue -> solution map as its all in your hands
finally documentation! -- that might lacking or being false or what ever, BUT its there and not outdated
no dependencies ( "joe and susane are sick this week, but we need to release / urgent bugfix ... who knows anything about the code parts they were (supposed to) write and what is the status / missing there?!" )
AI code review which follows usually the same pattern/style vs. code review of individuals who are... well... having their own style to write code... everyone of them... even if they follow some company standards for naming, declaration, definition, documentation ( haha lol, docu_what?! )
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And the perspective of the boss is essentially:
Did i hire coders or did i higher project managers?
If i hired coders and they are unable to evolve to project managers -> i am f*** or i will throw them out.
If i hired project managers -> best well done job in my life, i will save tons of money in coders while gaining endless more productivity -- and if i am a good boss will give the project managers a fat bonus to keep them happy.
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We personally started using AI ~ 2 months ago. And in Layer7 we have here issues with the transition as people decided to become programmers because they love to write code.... love to invent... art... something like this.
And now AI is generating code faster than anyone could review it. So people having a hard time to do the transition ( even they understand that this is simply the new reality ).
I do hope that no one will get lost during this transition. But in fact we have to adjust.
The difference is just too heavy. In fact a former team with project manager and 5 coders work as fast as a project manager with a 300 USD/month AI.
Without doubt, this project manager must be someone who understands how AI works and howto feed AI and work with it. Otherwise the whole bill will actually turn around.
On top it depends a lot on what field are you working in. Are you a frontend dev? Kernel? Database? Or if (code/runtime/resource) efficiency plays a role or not.
But the path is clear.... become farmer or become someone able to work/use AI in symbiosis.
Same goes for the sysops, admins, who ever. Just give AI a bit more time and we all will loose our job. And i really mean all and everyone who is not physically need to do the job. A pure question of time... very very frighting in my humble opinion... and the way of how the states/communities/society works must and will have to change too, otherwise everything will explode in rios of hundreds of millions of people having nothing to work anymore.
The flesh has to work for the AI.
It's a true tragedy.
So far no one has told me to use AI at all, but AI tools are available company-wide for anyone to use (if they want to, with very generous usage limits). Only fairly recently I even had time to look into how to best make use of AI for my work, and I think I have found a way to make it work for me. It's certainly not about vibe coding for me, but helping with the more boring parts of the work (and/or improving the quality of the work)
Sure, sometimes the AI is completely wrong (and that was my main impression of it until fairly recently), but I have also seen it come up with impressive results (where it is almost certainly right, but it did it much quicker than I could have ever done it). The difficult part is telling when it's right and when it's wrong.
well put.. ok so, my perspective is, the better of both fields will survive. The best coders can't be replaced easily simply due to being able to work the agents/understand systems better than the average vibe coder. as a tech/dev lead.. i focus on technical products.. the inner workings/tools of a company, and take pride there. That's where I (as a dev) can bring the most value.
While the product/project side.. need to be able to prototype and be creative, actually get claude/cursor to SHOW US (a live demo) of what you want.. the engineering side still has a role in making it work in a cost effective manner.
The skills remain, the way they're used and valued changes.
as far as pure engineering/code.. it turned the average developer in to a 10x engineeer.. it can turn a 10x engineer in to a digital god. which is why i said, we're about to see a different kind of gold rush take place. capitalism on steroids.
That sounds interesting. What kind of job is it?
In traditional manufacturing businesses, AI is also heavily used.
We frequently have manufacturing-related automation tasks (very simple program development) which were outsourced to vendors. They usually charge $10K to $200K per program depending on the work load. Starting from last year, most of such tasks are done completely in house with less than $500 token consumption per task, and the quality are almost always better than those done by the vendors.
QC/QA is another department that gets heavily replaced by AI.
Once again, AI is good for business owners, but the average Joe here in LET will suffer from the AI boom without doubt.
Half of my monthly tokens are just gone—wasted on arguing with it
Hi,
hrhr, i love the discussions with it, why its violating its own global rules and asking howto improve the rules to make sure this specific situation does not happen again.
Its interesting how flexible and creative AI can be justifying why rules that seem rock solid, would not work.
My favorite are situations like the rule says: "NEVER to do $this" and AI is admitting it was violating this rule because it did not mention what it should actually do if "$this" is not allowed. And even if you added for this case an answer, it will start failing because in specific situation X it was not defined what to do.
A normal human would understand what "NEVER" means. For AI never seems to be something flexible, depending on conditions.... that will be all so much fun as soon as critical infrastructure or banks/insurances/governments will start using this even more frequently.
we are so f***ed 
But for simple timgs, it's good enoigh tho, like fixing grammar and sentences, giving some ideas for coding approach etc.
I'm not a developer. I'm the guy who knows how our software is supposed to work. I'm the guy who interacts directly with customers. I define new features. I create customization concepts. I do deep dives into how to recreate bugs. I'm going to have access to claude code with a custom harness next week that I suspect will allow me to do a lot of my tasks more rapidly and pinpoint problems for the development team before it even gets to them. I think we'll be able to address customer needs more rapidly for cheaper. It would be very difficult to get me out of the loop, as customers will still need their hands held, at least for a while. That doesn't mean my company won't try to replace me with someone cheaper. Times are exciting and terrifying.
I honestly feel trapped which is why I am looking for jobs and working my way to get my certifications in the career that I want. Which good news, I got another Juniper cert last Monday.
We are in the stage where our execs are using AI for the sake of it and wanting us to use AI everywhere... Without looking into the potential harm or consequences. It's quite scary.
It's not improving my productivity, it's actually making it worse and I am forced to use it.
i have delivered a few php software to my clients written by chatgpt. i also checked and implement codes as needed. since all of them CRUD software for accounting, honestly make my life 70-80% easier.
The company I work for is all in on AI. We have one of the largest if not the largest training data in the world. We use AI extensively with access to Gemini, Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, Qodo and probably more. I imagine that all these tools save on having more $$$ developers and analysts. I know of several cases where devs said, "this would have taken about three weeks before but this was about two days with Claude. It handled all the UI stuff that would have taken so much time".
One of the higher ups that you wouldn't expect to be too technical for a suit setup company wide AI assistant that is pretty fucking good in the times I've used it. Did it in like 4 hours.
One incident of an intern pushing AI generated code that caused a downtime issue, so likely more guardrails coming soon.
There's been little to no clamping down on excessive use, so we must have a shit ton of tokens available or nobody's been checking the receipts.
Indeed. For a brief time, I was forced to integrate AI into my workflow. I got unusually lucky, since management actually listened and realized that "AI everything" was not helping. Now it's only used for code review and to whip up quick scripts that will be run once to parse something into a more visually-appealing format and then discarded, as that eliminates maintenance issues.
Currently there is no way AI going to change my job, as it require me to be physically present on field, but AI does help me (or my team) learn and optimize work/flows. Those AI can't replace their own parts (disk, etc), they can't perform physical inspection of fire supression, precision air coolers, and electrical/panels.
As almost everything is top secret, I can't even access or use cloud AI, only those locally hosted and managed AI can be used.
I work at very large company that builds one of the biggest AI. I am forced to use it.
Some people know how to use it as a developer tool (I like to think I am in this) to reduce tedium.
Some people are really fucking annoying AI psychosis idiots that will send me slop to review, almost none of which makes sense because their prompts are beyond stupid ("fix it", "whats broken", "find ALL bugs MAKE NO MISTAKES", "find all vulnerabilities")
I hate being sent slop documentation that is useless and wrong too. I have to waste AI money tokens asking it questions about [codebase] rather than being able to parse or read documentation.
AI is useless in industrial tech. waste of money and resources.
shittiest thing is when some bosses do use it and actually think its a smart tool with all that junk output, the whole world knows they're faking but never made it
As a developer, I now spend far less time coding directly. In fact, it has been quite a while since I last even opened my IDE. My focus has shifted toward thinking more strategically about how to create better products. Ultimately, I believe we are moving toward a future where a single person can own small features end-to-end, from planning and development to QA.
Luckly me just self-employed before AI-thingy, on remote side their never force me do use it.
I never have nice time using AI until this time, code clarity always question-able and repeating until point AI was understand it feels like so weird in my sense.
Yes, once time I vibing egui rust app, I never pleased reading code I read, mess was unreal.
For reference I using claude pro and copilot, maybe i was impatient or didnt have "good model ai" but i dont know