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For fuck's sake, management is now asking us to provide data converted in % as to how genAI is actually making us more efficient as developers. How the fuck do you even measure that empirically?

It is already BS enough that they track how much we query these AI tools everyday in our development environments, but now they want genAI to produce most of the code templates in our SDK. It can barely produce a working regex or a working python script, let alone a small piece of code that won't stack overflow itself into oblivion. It sometimes takes more time to debug and refactor than to do it myself from scratch.

They ask for our professional opinion, we tell them, they don't give a fuck about it, proceed to think all is rainbows and unicorns, and still ask us the same moronic things as if they were the new messiah's on earth.

Don't get me wrong, genAI can be useful, but why the fuck does management think it will magically solve all our problems when they don't even understand how it works even on the surface.

The only thing that would make sense is a lot of them got money at stake in some AI investment sales pitch bullshit and they try to jam it up our collective throats because otherwise they will loose their investments like there is no tomorrow.

Fuck all of this, I just want to do engineering and build something useful to society. Is it too much to ask?

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  • 5
    Which genAI specifically? But yes, half of the time I rather could've done it myself better. Still, keep doing it.
  • 2
    You lie.
  • 1
    Crime, the answer is crime.
  • 8
    > "How the **** do you even measure that empirically?"

    This steps into 'stay out of my backyard'. Mgrs are supposed to define the parameters, block obstacles, and *stay out of my way*.

    If I'm asked, I would say 0%. Its not like mgrs would know either way.
  • 3
    it's like we're all working for the AI companies but also paying for the privilege of it

    talk about some magic!
  • 2
    @retoor Copilot. It's ok, nothing groundbreaking though.

    I heard cursor is better though. I might try it some time.
  • 3
    The current AI Investment market is the epitome of "Fake it till you make it"
  • 3
    Ask genAI what would be an answer that they want to hear.
    BS in, BS out.
  • 1
    Make shit up.
  • 1
    Yea I heard an ex coworker tell me my ex manager is watching her completion acceptance rate. If the rate of accepting an ai solution is too low she will get a talking to. That manager sucks btw.
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