It's so bizarre working in software development for a non-tech company.

Management is like "can you use it to automate X?" And my answer is almost always "No. It will do an unreliable job of that. But if you want X automated just TELL me that's what you want and I can seriously automate it for you in a day or two by just writing a tool"

Nope.

It blows my mind how much Management doesn't give two fucking shits about the RESULT. They ONLY want to be able to tell shareholders that something was accomplished USING AI.

Oh, and for what it's worth... since I've been at this company, I've had the same question asked of:

• The Blockchain

• The Metaverse

Getting questions which are solutions in search of a problem has been a harbinger of a hype train heading for a derailment

My work deals with parts that get damaged in shipping pretty often, and every shipper has different ways they want things formatted and different asinine ways that descriptions make sense that it's a pain to describe damage so that it doesn't turn into an email chain... So our IS team trained a model to take in 3-4 images of part damage and what shipper it's from and it generates everything for us to review and send. Saves a bunch of busywork for exactly that.