I kept reading about how bad Android Auto was for years but we finally bought a more modern used car and I can't believe they would ship that experience to customers. I had a week where I just had to unpair and re-pair Everytime I got in the car.

I would love to read about why that stuff is the way it is from the engineers, hmm that might be a good spelunking. I really must be missing something that makes it harder than I think it really should be.

US car software, ya, I've never seen such trash in my life. This said I don't really have any complaints about my Hyundai software. It works, doesn't crash, and does what I want it too.

Well, if all the training data for auto software was trash anyway, then you know what they say:

Carbage in, carbage out.

As someone who's worked on this kind of stuff at GM, I don't really get the exuberance in this particular space (not just the comment I'm responding to).

If you want 100% coverage, you just autogenerate the test cases. LLMs can't properly check MISRA requirements, so they're really just a layer on top existing automated checkers. Same for complexity metrics, it doesn't get merged if it violates that (or it's a vendor dependency you won't touch anyway).

If you care about the spirit of the rules, they're not that big a difference. If you don't care, there are already ways to do this. In either case they're an incremental change, not what I'd call a godsend.

I can't tell if this is sarcastic or not, but it seems insane to let the AI write the tests.

AI can't be held accountable, it shouldn't be writing the tests that determine whether car systems function correctly.

Irony detected, but it's 2026, so nobody can be sure.

Yea it's vibe/agentic coding. That's what about half of the current jobs are right now. It's really sad. Saw a vibe coder job today, 20bucks an hour

FWIW, I interpreted the article as saying they're not looking for vibe coding, but AI model development per se:

"...In practical terms, GM is looking for people who know how to build with AI from the ground up — designing the systems, training the models, and engineering the pipelines — not just use AI as a productivity tool."

I mean agentic coding is a thing but anyone could learn that in a day or week. So the idea of throwing away people that could be the most productive with ai of course make no sense. But it's big corporations, not everything has to make sense. It's most likely a dressed up pure cost saving framed in 2026-lingo.

Yup thats exactly what they want

Cheaper younger people who dont think vibe coding is bad

Is this a good idea - probably not

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It's crazy that this still works for the companies. Anyone with any experience here knows whats happening. But the reporters can still just parrot whatever these companies say. Who cares if it's more lies, right?

Their tech positions were really the only common path to get continued raises and promotions starting from the bottom in GM for the past few decades. Most other positions only ever got hired from outside the company because internal hires expected raises for it, so to me this just looks like gm putting their tech department under the same self destructive hiring policies as the rest of the company.

They hire anew to lower salaries, while also gaining staff with "stronger AI skills."

I found that sort of thinking is no longer a part of corporate culture(in AU at least). As in, investing in your staff and planning for the future. Resources are meant to be used and abused for benefit and that's it, consequences be damned.

A lot of people are un-trainable. I've worked with people who got angry when the Instructor showed up and the instructor wouldn't just give them the completed exercises, while most of the other people just sat on their laptops checking emails ignore the training all together. I've worked with people that want training on how to use Claude because they can't figure out "just type what you want in the box, and it does it for you." I've worked with people who were amazed when I googled for answers and were like "I should do that to!" (but didn't)

People will demand training, ignore it, and continue to be a drain on the company. There will be those people out there that have one very very very specific skill and that's all they want to do; "I remove people from Active directory that have names that start with A,B or C" or "I run this Ansible Playbook someone else wrote, and that's my entire job."

I haven’t heard of a single software job in the last decade that offers anything resembling “training”. You sink or swim based on your previous knowledge, what you can glean from the codebase and coworkers, and how skilled you are at self-teaching.

Laid off ai workers are cheaper. I saw a job posting for a vibe coder, 20 bucks an hour.

perhaps they tried that and the staff wasn't willing to be trained. have you ever worked at a company like that of that size?

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You won't be asked, your tax dollars will just be used to bail them out, either directly or through tariffs. Because democracy.

> And after seeing how they treat employees for decades

To say nothing of their cars.

That's the neat part, many don't need to worry about missing their kid's graduation because they can't afford neither kids nor the safety to have them (home ownership, etc).

"Cheaper" is indeed what you get when you reduce payroll.

Opens 50% of the time everytime

People who can use Claude and its peers effectively. AI skills = prompting and slop troubleshooting.

This is only stupid if you value quality of outcome. If your sole metric is make stock price go up long enough to cash out this shit is brilliant.

Why can’t US auto makers automate like China did?