> I think the push from management for us to use AI has made it so we don’t have to be efficient with our consumption, so now we write md files which we feed to Claude in a loop instead of python and bash scripts to do routine tasks.

We're all being measured to AI usage, so...

Instead of doing a grep | uniq | awk which would give me an answer in 100 milliseconds for free, I launch a prompt to spend 30 seconds on it and will cost some actual money.

I hope we get over this phase of the hype soon. I want and will use AI as a tool, but it's just another (good) tool in the toolbox.

When I need to do a one-off investigation, it's great to use AI and spend 5-10 minutes querying and get my answer for $5 or so, instead of having to spend 2-3 hours writing a script which I'll discard. That's a great use case.

But using AI for routine processing done daily where writing a script would be amortized over thousands of runs, it's insane. I'd rather use AI to write the script and then don't need the AI anymore, the script will be faster and free. Oh but then my AI usage in the executives report drops. Can't have that. Waste away.

>>> Instead of doing a grep | uniq | awk which would give me an answer in 100 milliseconds for free, I launch a prompt to spend 30 seconds on it and will cost some actual money.

I'd argue it will be even worse, you still remember how to do it, next gen of SDEs won't even try.