Fuck AI

yeah I guess I fall under that definition as well

sure, I am an AI skeptic. I work in engineering. I should be critical of any tools. that doesn't mean that I'm sabotaging the company's strategy, unless their strategy is to blindly implement AI tools. in which case yeah sure, but like surely that's not the actual strategy, right?

anyways, short story time:

• our company had a demo for an AI drawing creation tool. it was not very impressive and their team couldn't answer many questions about how it works. it didn't seem like it would provide any value to us since it couldn't do complex drawings and simple drawings take little time and effort to create. so the moderate complexity stuff is where it could shine, which coincidentally is also where junior people train their skills to become intermediates and seniors. and like I'm not going to choose to turn our jobs into reviewing AI output, because that's bad for the company - it leads to poor job satisfaction, poor work quality, and inexperienced team members

• our CTO is vibe coding a bunch of tools for us right now. his approach is to basically not validate anything and let people find issues. I report these issues when I find them, as well as go looking for them if I suspect something is wrong. does that make me a saboteur? trying to correct something?

• same guy also has used Claude to create some technical specifications/ document summaries, and sent them out external. external team had many questions because the document didn't make sense. bad look for our company, I think, and lots of wasted time trying to figure out that information and then going back and correcting it later. am I a saboteur because I don't blindly adopt AI document generation and keep asking who validated certain information instead of just using it and proceeding with my work?