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My workplace is fully embracing AI in the worst way possible (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
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small rant incoming

I work for a company that it's mostly hardware focused, but we do ship some software for the final consumer including drivers and programs, to make use of said hardware.

While I am not in the software department, I held some SWE positions in previous companies for over a decade, our software isn't very complex and I do know most of it pretty well.

Our employee just announced a new AI-only development cycle, they want all code submissions and reviews to be exclusively done by claude, effectively ending ownership of the code being shipped to customers. This is absolute madness.

Today, I received an email scheduling a workshop on how to integrate claude into vscode and how to work with the new gitflow, namely removing our authorship from commits and having al code reviews done by a LLM now.

I am just baffled at the decision.

edit: wow I'm a bit overwhelmed by the response, I did read all of you. Thanks!

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[–] 11 points 4 months ago (4 children)

For the plant identification, I would say that these detection methods are heavily biased towards the data in the training sets. Sure, it’s probably good at commonly occurring plant symptoms, but would be unable to assess rare symptoms with any real accuracy. Same goes for diseases with similar symptoms.

I think it if fine for entertainment or research purposes, but should not be used for real world issues. AI should not be used to accuse people of crime they didn’t commit and have that be taken as evidence. Like how Google scans all personal photos and has falsely reported people of heinous crimes. Sure they catch some bad actors, but I doubt they are doing better than if they were to randomly report people’s accounts. And there is never a human in the loop to correct for false positives.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    For sure. I have no doubt that it was trained primarily using Reddit (the gardening subs were actually pretty good). My intent with the comment was to imply casual home gardening use (entertainment). I apologize if that wasn't clear.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    Your comment was clear, I just wanted to add on some other supporting information and also add on other scenarios for additional context. The main point of all of this being the use cases for AI are currently very slim, but it is being pushed to an unreasonable extent on people. Maybe some like it and are happy to give up their data and privacy, but I think there needed to have been regulations and protections set in place before it was rolled out.

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