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Requiring AI use
Banning AI use
Requiring AI use both on the job and in interviews
No rule either way
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Conny Duck@toba Highly encouraging AI use.
Mat
ÐДѷє ۷ǿȵ ຣ@mathampson @ConnyDuck @toba same, with the addition “even if you don’t see the advantage yet”. They’re basically yolo-ing their strategy hoping something pops out
bitbonk@toba @RonJeffries AI tools are not yet officially allowed but everyone is dipping their toes in it. The employer knows that it could potentially be helpful but didn’t quite figure out how to deal with it.
(Employer is in Germany)
(Employer is in Germany)
John Maxwell@toba Unemployed at the moment.
Alexander The 1st
Eric R. Scott@toba REQURING AI use?!? 🤮🤮🤮
アイアンハンドガンダム@toba no requirement but constant reminder to utilize it
Le Chep@toba "strongly pushing for it"
Phil@toba My employer is allowing it with a formal policy listing specific use cases.
CaptainMalu@toba My Employer allows AI but only for inputs without any information about customers.
The use isn't required, it's more so recommended to not use it, but it's also not forbidden.
The use isn't required, it's more so recommended to not use it, but it's also not forbidden.
squinky@toba secret fifth thing: being super unclear about whether it's required, banned, allowed, or encouraged. The rules seem to change from one AI tool to the next, and not be kept anywhere accessible
Mark IJbema@toba to be fair I'm a software engineer working on an ai product for software engineers (Kilo Code)
Mike Gossmann@toba my boss likes to share his enthusiasm for the tech, but there hasn't been much direct pressure either way.
The Essence of Woerm Sin@toba Currently no rule either way, though my client (I'm a contractor) was recently bought by a bigger firm that (aiui) has its own on-prem ChatGPT implementation (or at least some similarly walled-off instance), so being strongly-encouraged can't be far off; additionally, their client's product owner has started making noises in that direction.
I'd quit first, if financially viable.
sqrt(-1)@toba not banning AI use, they offer the option to use Cursor, or something like that
but we are discouraging the use of it
El Duvelle@toba it's trying to sneak AI (specifically Copilot) into everything we do 🤢
Eli the Bearded$WORK has strict rules about *which* AIs can be used, and encouraging those but not requiring using anything.
f♯ a♯ ∞@toba
5. Has no idea how they could have me use AI for my work 🥹
Eduard-Cristian Boloș 🇷🇴🇪🇺@toba *some* people from the leadership are strongly encouraging experimentation with LLMs, others are more skeptical.
Samuel@toba @thomasfuchs encourage to use AI but local models only.
Oinak 
@toba Encouraging, promoting and paying for it, but no requirement yet neither in job nor in interviews. I have to say, as a live coding interviewer, for every candidate using LLM thoroughly and successfully there are 5 or 6 using just spicy autocomplete and one or two completely shooting their feet.
Renato Ramonda@toba the "secret fifth" is simply "makes it available but not mandated".
The policy actually also says that YOU the person are responsible for what the LLM produced because you're supposed to review and validate it. And you should evaluate if the risks and benefits are worth it.
I took those as permission to ignore it.
Fabio Valentini@toba neither me nor my employer (also me!) wants to use AI for anything. so I answered "banned" 😆
Judy Anderson@toba
5. still studying it. I expect them to come down on some sort of limited use acceptable.
5. still studying it. I expect them to come down on some sort of limited use acceptable.
Philip Mallegol-Hansen@toba I wouldn’t say requiring, but strongly pushing for sure.
БРОНЗЫ БИТЬ@toba I direct myself neither way, but dip my toe in for amusement and utility when it makes sense. I’m not going to be bull headed - it has its applications and the list of ones that work is expanding daily. Of course it has its many flaws and risks, from myriad perspectives. All emergent tech does. Yes it’s incinerating the planet - but it’s not going away. It appears the only way out of this apocalypse is through and out the other side. Know thine enemy. It may become an ally yet.
Cees de Groot@toba using AI where it makes sense (it's reasonably good for things like sales meeting notes), and not where it doesn't. The sensible secret fifth strategy 🙂
FRΞΛX@toba No specific rules but wants to implement agentic AI into the product (💀)
wink@toba "Use it if it saves time and doesn't compromise correctness" - which is more than I like but not completely terrible.
aburka 🫣@toba it's not required but it is subsidized. Objections (buggy code, copyright, data privacy, etc) were overruled and not engaged with