I’m in IT at an upper level and know painfully well what “AI” really is and that it’s not the disruptor people think it will be. However I feel like I can’t post it anywhere without being judged about it as almost every exec I know has bought into it hook, line and sinker. Even other people I talk to about the issues and limitations look at me like I’m completely weird “you’re in IT and you don’t embrace AI? wtf is wrong with you?”
So what do you all do? I don’t want to make things career limiting but I feel like I’m screaming in the dark seeing where things will really go. It reminds me a lot of the move to cloud and everyone going all in on it without knowing the real ramifications.
I’m in the job hunt and man…the circle jerk around AI is just… inescapable.
I don’t get it. By the time you write “a good prompt” I will have written something usable and passable. The level of effort to debug whatever the prompt gave me vs my code is, let’s say, roughly the same.
So…what time am I saving?
The only thing this helps is people who can’t code. And we just assume that it’s passable code only because it works.
Hell I’m at a point of commit very wrong code to GitHub under an MIT license just to start poisoning Copilot.
You actually don’t have to worry about poisoning their models, they’re already well on their way without any of our input. Broken vibe coder projects are probably already filling github at an alarming rate.
The AI trained on vibe coding will train future AI to be even more enshittified.
I’m way ahead of you. To…uh…poison the AI…not just because a bunch of my code is shit…