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[–] expr@programming.dev 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Similar story at my workplace, masturbatory AI bullshit coming from the top.

Unfortunately, my boss is in favor of it. Sucks because he's a great engineer (turned manager) in his own right who by all accounts had a really good head on his shoulders when it came to stupid, unnecessary bullshit and I really respect him, but for some reason that I cannot begin to fathom he thinks LLMs are actually useful for software development.

I can't really figure out what led him to such an obviously wrong conclusion. I guess it's really true that no one is immune to the bullshit psychological feedback loop induced by LLMs.

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[–] laranis@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A very smart mentor of mine once said, "When it comes to a choice of doing what's right for your career and what's right for the business, people choose their career every time."

Once he said it, I started seeing it everywhere.

The thing that bothers me constantly is why the fuck those are different things.

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[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Because usually the ones pushing the bullshit, have no clue how their own companies operate. They'll feed into anything that they're told is the next greatest thing without a single thought of how it fits into what they do.

At the end of the day, they're idiots with money.

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[–] rainwall@piefed.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Some of its self serving, but lots of its self preservation. My VP is 100% a "whatever get me the next salary jump guy, no matter how stupid or short sighted or wrong it is." That's a bad thing, and I think we can all understand why.

Now, he's clearly wrong, and in some cases, in ways I can prove. I could absolutely go to his boss or other execs and prove pretty thoroughly that what's he's doing is bad for the business. Not illegal, not breaking policy, but provably bad. What will also happen is that I will be fired, no matter how right I am, because me doing that threatens the hierarchy. So I don't, and focus instead on applying the minimum possible work and CYA to make sure I don't waste my time or get fired for not wasting my time.

In both cases, we are optimizing our careers over the health of the business. I would argue mine is less destructive and is based on survival rather than enrichment, but both acts fit the bill.

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