| ▲ | nsilvestri 3 hours ago |
| AI is accelerating my work...work which only exists because of AI. If I had to do my individual tasks without AI, I would be slower. But if I take a step back, I'm really not changing the world any faster than I was before. |
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| ▲ | jack_pp 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I think where LLMs truly shine is personal greenfield projects, maybe start a side project |
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| ▲ | LeFantome an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Completely agree. LLMs are amazing for side projects. The other place they are amazing is in working with legacy code bases. I mean, the kind the dev team always wants to throw away. First, even if you do want to throw it away, you can first find out what it does and realize it does more than you think it does. You can also create integrations to more modern components which can be used to extend it. You can also create a pretty decent test suite if you do not have one. And, once the behaviour has good test coverage, you can re-write it into something more modern. You can even completely change the architecture while ensuring compatible external behaviour. Remember, this is all in place of “throw it away and start over from scratch, only to discover that the scope is much larger than expected”. | | |
| ▲ | simonask 25 minutes ago | parent [-] | | You could already do all of that. Like, none of that is infeasible to achieve on a scale of weeks in most cases. It’ll still take weeks with AI in the picture, but for some reason management is more willing to plan it when they also have the additional token bills to pay. | | |
| ▲ | 1123581321 20 minutes ago | parent [-] | | It was often not organizationally feasible because you needed permission to spend those weeks up front, instead of working on something else, just to get to where you knew enough to give approval to finish the work. Now, you can make enough progress with one developer’s quiet afternoon to be confident and finishing the work also takes less time. The technical grasp of the legacy codebase was a factor, but often not the largest. |
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| ▲ | llama_drama an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | There's this joke like "I used to have 5 unfinished side projects, but AI changed everything. Now I have 30 unfinished side projects". And in my case it's not even a joke | | |
| ▲ | jack_pp an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Can't really blame AI for that though. | | |
| ▲ | sodapopcan an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | They aren't blaming AI, they are just backing up the "not much has changed" idea. | |
| ▲ | furyofantares an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | It's always been easier to start a project than finish it, and LLMs make starting a project roughly free. I'm not sure they change how much work it is to finish it all that much. I mean, I have finished more side projects than before. So they do change it. Just not as dramatically. | |
| ▲ | anonymous908213 an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Of course you can. LLMs take you from 0 to 80 instantly. They are then completely incapable of getting from 80 to 100 and making something worth shipping to production. They are the ultimate unfinished side project generator. | | |
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| ▲ | erikus an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | So relatable. But I have some finished projects now and some of them I use daily. | |
| ▲ | krapp an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Skill issue. I had 30 unfinished side projects even before AI. Just raw talent. |
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| ▲ | jopsen 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Yeah, when there is no code review requirements and no pesky production database you can't just yolo :) At work, they mostly let me increase quality, because it's easy to say find all parsers in my code base and fuzz them. | | |
| ▲ | rajay99 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | It is great. I just had claude yolo a human in the loop image segmentation pipeline last night. It cut weeks of work down to an evening like 4h. Segment Anything 3.1 + Napari final touch. | |
| ▲ | switchbak an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | I'd also say: when you really understand a domain well and you're a one-(wo)man show, you can just fly! Of course, you can make a giant pile of doggy-doo-doo, but that was always true, just you can now make an epic Giza-sized pile. |
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| ▲ | bhelkey 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > work which only exists because of AI Could you elaborate? What work are you doing which only exists because of AI? |
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| ▲ | soared 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | For all my user facing work I’m now required to do an AI summary of what I did and the impact. That summary is then graded by AI, against an AI generated rubric. For my yearly review, I use AI to summarize my summaries, and my managers AI summarizes the AI generated grades. I’m also required to explain how I use AI in my work. I must plan all of my future work, with an AI tool. Another AI assesses whether my work is aligning with planned work. Before I work and after I work, there is a million circular references that exist solely because of AI. These have scaled because it’s so easy to do with AI, but the we’re wasting so much time doing a ton of extra things very efficiently. Let me do my job. My manager should know how I’m doing. Maybe highlight key wins. CSATs/etc go out every year. | | |
| ▲ | ctkhn an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Even before my last job had internally approved AI, my manager told me how he was using chatgpt on his personal computer to prepare our yearly reviews. Then when they released AI internally a few weeks later, it was still review time, and their first advertised use case was for doing your own self eval and the evals for your reports. I am willing to deal with vibed code but turning over employee evals to AI too is a sign of truly terrible management | |
| ▲ | switchbak an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Does any of this get read? I mean by an actual human? This sounds truly Kafkaesque. And thank you for finally allowing me to use that word in earnest. | | |
| ▲ | BeetleB an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | I honestly got turned off a few sentences in. Sounds like a nightmare. | |
| ▲ | andsoitis an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | > This sounds truly Kafkaesque. And thank you for finally allowing me to use that word in earnest. Kafka and Byzantium had a baby. |
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| ▲ | LeFantome an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | So….you have outsourced multiple layers of middle-management to AI? I am not sure getting AI to write and review your TPS reports is going to move the needle. |
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| ▲ | gerardvschie 43 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | Its true, a part of me died when an "AI first" company after adoption of AI introduced a mandatory design report (waterfall all over again) for EACH jira ticket before starting to code Imagine developers move faster because of AI programming! No lets create more slop for other slopmachines |
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| ▲ | deadbabe an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| You aren’t changing the world at all. |
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| ▲ | N7lo4nl34akaoSN 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy. -Oscar Wilde |
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| ▲ | gavmor 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I mean, for many years I worked on software applications for provisioning and controlling cloud orchestration platforms that only existed... to serve software applications. It's not that deep—there were many more verticals outside of control plans, and there are now many more verticals outside of machine learning. Or am I missing the point? |
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