Fuck AI

OMG the mandates. We're got those too. It's ok to have the option, it's bad to have the mandate.

I'm reminded of the criticism that middle management likes AI because all MGMT has to do is summarize and report up, something AI is actually pretty good at. And they think they're smart, so they think AI should be able to do other jobs too, except they're so detached from production that they don't understand how far it falls short.

If your juniors can commit slop directly to main the problem isn't them or the AI, it's your process.

Mandates to use AI are the stupidest fucking thing I've ever heard. I quit a company over it last year.

I don't get it. Do managers think the guys plowing the fields saw someone go by with an ox an cart and went "I keep hearing about these ox carts, but I need my manager to tell me to use it before I try"? No. The ox and cart was better than plowing the field by hand, obviously so.

If the domain experts don't feel like a tool makes them productive, forcing them to use it isn't going to make them productive.