★ Amy Star ★2d ago
i'm pivoting to AI (Artificial Incompetence)
Show thread★ Amy Star ★2d ago

in case you need a taste of how fucked the tech industry is right now, I'm being required to use AI at work. if I talk about how it fucks up or overcomplicates basic asks, it's because I "don't know how to use it" which indicates a "lack of growth mindset", and thus poor performance. I've been told this directly to my face, starting immediately.

so not only must I use Claude, I have to cover for Claude's mistakes, and then go the extra mile to pass off my own work as Claude's.

Show thread★ Amy Star ★2d ago

anyway, I need to pay rent, so I guess I'm a slopper now.

at this point, I want to move to a farm and shovel pig shit for the rest of my life.

Show threadn3wjack1d ago
@AmyZenunim I don't think they can see what you're using Claude for, just how many tokens you've spent.
So if you just do what you used to do, and have Claude come up with some original recipes for pies in the meanwhile, they probably will never know. 😁
Show thread3mind
@n3wjack @AmyZenunim I don’t think such approach will work for long. Becaue at some point, they also expect a massive growth in efficiency using AI - as promised by BigTech. So projects have to be completed much faster, which is just impossible to achieve without AI. And if you‘re not producing results fast enough - again it‘s your fault.
Mar 25 at 7:37amWeb
Show threadn3wjack1d ago
@3mind @AmyZenunim But how are they going to measure that efficiency gain? I have my doubts LLMs are actually speeding things up. You still have to double-check and review everything it spits out, which takes time. If you don't, you'll end up with mistakes you'll have to clean up later. So there goes your efficiency.
For some jobs it's just faster if you don't use it at all.
Show threadEsparta 10h ago

@n3wjack @3mind @AmyZenunim

> I have my doubts LLMs are actually speeding things up.

The expectation is to see more patches co-authored by Claude or similar, which completes stories and deliver something, even if it's incomplete, buggy or plainly wrong. It doesn't matter how many new specs are being added or how confident are you in the result; what it matters is getting things out of the door - push it, crush it.

That's kind of the never-ending cycle at least for software developer context.