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My work thinks theyre being forward thinking by shoving ai into everything. Not that we are forced to use it but we are encouraged to. Outside of using it to convert a screenshot to text (not even ai...thats just ocr) I haven't had much use for it since it's wrong a lot. Its pretty useless for the type of one off work I do as well. We are supposed to share any "wins" we've had but I'd sooner they stop paying a huge subscription to Sammy A.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

My company recently announced to the whole IT department that they're contracting with Google to get Gemini for writing code and stuff. They had someone from Google even give a presentation rife with all kinds of propaganda about how much Gemini will "help" us write code. Demoed the IntelliJ integration and everything. I wouldn't say we were "asked" to use it, but we were definitely "encouraged" to." But since then, there's been no information on how actually to use our company-provided Gemini license/integration/whatever. So I don't think anyone's using it yet.

I'd love to tell everyone on my team not to use it, and I am kindof "in charge" of my team a bit. But it's not like there aren't many (too many) levels of management above me. And it's clear they wouldn't have my back if I put my foot down about that. So I've told my team not to commit any code unless they understand it as well as they would had they written it themselves. I figure that's sufficiently noncommittal that the pro-Gemini upper management won't have a problem with it while also (assuming anyone on my team heeds it) minimizing the damage.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Haven't been asked yet, but company is in process of adding "AI" (as ambiguous as that) into many business processes. (Presented right after presentation on sustainability...)

I know many developers love LLMs, but they seem so useless to me - LLM is not gonna fix tech debt, wonky git issues or know how to query a complex 20+ year old DB. I have access to a LLM and would not know what to ask that I could not do myself.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

My job has been paying hundreds of euros per person for access to microsoft's llm. And it really is just a toy at this point. It's been helpful to me a handful of times over the last year. A better investment would be a non-shitty version of google

[–] [email protected] 13 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

No fucking kidding. I hate how bad internet search has become. Time to pay for kagi I guess..back in my day you could actually search the internet for actual content and not slop and ads.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

I have Kagi, it's worth it. They're stretching themselves a bit thin tho

[–] [email protected] 20 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

My company has adopted llms in a big way and has set per-employee "time savings" goals.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 14 hours ago

Sorry, I threw up a little at that

I can't wait until it all fails miserably honestly. But maybe it wont, we will see.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 14 hours ago

That’s not just a red flag, it’s a bunch. And they’re being waved by a marching band. I’d start looking for new work if I were you, because your company’s leadership is dangerously incompetent.

AI is a “time saver” in only very narrow circumstances and only in the hands of certain people who are already at the top of their fields. You need to be able to immediately recognize when it’s wrong, because if you don’t, it costs time and, worse, introdruces major flaws into work.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 15 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago

Yep. It's level 0 tech support, HR, etc. It's about 50% successful. Then when it fails, it connects you to a person.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago

The company I work for have their own LLM AI. ChatGPT, Deepseek, Claude and others are all blocked. Our own works ok, and is there to anyone who wants to use it, nobody is forced to use it.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 16 hours ago

My boss tried to get us to use the commercial ChatGPT account he got for the business, but within two months everybody stopped using it.

He didn't try to mandate it, but he did encourage us to try it. In the end it was just more work than doing what we needed to do ourselves without its "assistance".

[–] [email protected] 10 points 15 hours ago

My boss got us a ChatGPT corporate workspace or something? They gave me access to which I promptly "forgot" (read: intentionally did not use). Then the other day, I asked my boss for help with a tricky piece of coding and they screenshared while they showed themselves directly typing my question into ChatGPT and sending me its answer...

I tried using it once for a different piece of tricky coding. I tried arguing with it, having to tell it multiple times that it was making the same error over and over with each new "totally corrected" answer it gave me. I gave up after an hour without any new steps in a correct direction.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 15 hours ago

I'm on our copilot demo team so I assist some business folks utilize it in teams or office a little. mostly I design controls around limiting its impact but all users have access to build agents by default which is dumb. so yeah, not my full time gig by any means but extracting "value" is subjective and it takes time to build some use cases.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago

My company is pushing it. The funny thing is that it's totally inappropriate for my job. Plus, I find it amusing that they're complaining about the lack of profit (and cutting out Zoom for GMeet for cost, and not using O365 and expecting that we can switch to GSheets) and then talking about the AI in the same breath.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

As a programmer, I got some pretty good use cases. GitHub Copilot has been hit or miss. It can do tedious, common coding well, but the less common it is, the more trouble it has.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago

Not my department specifically, but my organization has. And I work for a county government, so... be worried about that going forward, I'd say.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

Encouraged to use it, had a vibe coding hackathon, released a new product six months ago built on a ChatGPT integration