Birch-o-matic

We talk about AI a lot in my family, as my 23 year old son is fighting to land a job in this distorted market. I’m no expert but I have a tech background.

From what I’ve seen and read, AI applied diligently can be useful and help speed up some work. But, the burden is on the individual to understand everything it’s doing and ensure the appropriate guardrails are in place and being honored.

It’s not yet a general tool for the masses, as much as the tech bros would like it to be. They will be some big fuck ups along the way, but once the tools are hardened and proven, they will be powerful.

Given the mistakes that are already happening, it will be interesting to see who survives.

#ai #techbros

Mar 27 at 3:15amWeb
Show threadFeloniousPunkMar 27

@MrBirch I was in a meeting today where a frontend developer said he was using Claude to build out a new feature. They said, and I quote, "I was struggling to understand what it built but, it worked."

I have a meeting scheduled tomorrow with management to address my concerns.

Show threadBirch-o-maticMar 27

@FeloniousPunk exactly. I’m retired now, but in my last couple of roles, Ruby on Rails featured prominently. Too many devs chose to ignore what the guy behind the curtain was doing but then get frustrated when unexpected things happen.

I worry about all the production code being generated by AI, with devs blindly pushing it into Production.