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How fashy.

Delicious dogfood

Create virus that deletes AI please

they *literally* can't even pay people to use it

I know young adults who used AI to help them target their resumes for certain jobs only to get spit out and given a no because Ai screened their resume and told them they used Ai to write it. That is fu*ked up.

It's fine you just gotta convince other CEOs to do it to their employees too.

Article is here, for those who want to read more: www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-in...

Nope. I prefer to do my own thinking.

They should use it the bare minimum. "I used it! I used it to translate this one sentence and then threw away the answer and did it myself because I don't trust your piece of shit AI garbage."

We will fire you if you don't help us integrate this new technology so we can replace you with it and fire you.

Thanks!

Heh. If only I could see it being dropped from harmful use. Unfortunately though, it's already caught on with big corporate, and the related big politics. Google being one notable example.

Short-term stocks, pump and dumps, all are being ballooned so The Right People are on top of the cinders

Vacuum as much money as possible before the Total Model Collapse arrives.

They've finally pissed away so much money they can't bring themselves to cut their losses, so they're going all in even if it destroys them.

Considering how Microsoft makes their own OS miserable to use by forcing Bing searches into every nook and cranny of the software to juice the numbers, who the fuck even knows.

hey, juicing the usage numbers benefits the whole company. do YOU not care about the company??

Sure, it's supremely stupid, but all they really need to do is convince investors.

Hell, Stockfish is at least actually good at Chess. It's probably a *better* place to start.

“Dogfooding” is extremely common and mostly makes perfect sense, people shouldn’t make too much of an AI company doing this.

I graduated as a systems analyst last year and, therefore, signed up for job rejections and whatever this is. I find it hard to believe a LLM knows how to develop, let alone know what it's developing, and it only makes sense that the less one knows the more correct the output looks to them.

I’ve added a “rule” to my Cursor settings: Don’t let me give you a prompt that asks for too large of a chunk of work. Between that and asking for smaller, more directly actionable, and more concise stepwise changes, I’ve seen many fewer dumb things come back. It’s an intern, not an engineer.

you will use our genocidal ai and you will like it

"My boss paid a lot of money for this machine that hurts my fingers, has a high pitched whine that gives everyone in the office a headache, and makes the coffee taste like fish."

And coding seems to be the closest any of this gets to a use case.

Oooohhh, BURN.

“Why aren’t people using a tool that slows them down? They shouldn’t be working efficiently with their skills!”

How do I cut us off at the knees and ensure the inevitable eventuality that we forget how to fix the slop machine's output because no one knows how to code by hand anymore?

"no, it is The Poors who are wrong, as always"

Neither of you are crazy. Unfortunately your environment is what's gone crazy. Take care of yourselves.

I'm so sorry. You're not alone. Making it part of the review process is absurd. "[gen]AI proficiency" must include knowing when *not* to use it, which can definitely be most or all of the time. I know how to use recursion perfectly well, which includes not using it.

Why the Hell anyone would want to make that eons long problem worse by introducing LLMs into the equation I can't fathom. #1 time waster.

One place I do find models useful is unknown unknowns. Solve a problem, get it working, THEN feed it to a model and ask for some methods to improve it. Was especially useful learning python coming from C, to learn pythonic methods I either didn’t know or forgot about.

Why won't the people who know what they're doing take the incoherent advice of people who've bought the shiny flimflam?!

Gee, maybe if they've seen AI isn't always 100% reliable it puts engineers right off. But, the wallpaper on my husband's iPad is Godzilla menacing NYC done in the style of Van Gogh. Yay AI!

Lol I've gotten the "model their use on our team" talk because the senior engineers at our company also don't like it They seem to think senior engineers will magically fix every issue these things have instead of seeing them as disqualifying

"Make this slop profitable by any means necessary or you're fired!"

Check out stopgenai.com

Our company paid for Microsoft hosting and is so bad, copilot is slow af and very inaccurate

bsky.app/profile/barr...

Tell the AI to send your Boss a message explaining why AI sucks every 10 seconds. Make them burn through 10 times your annual salary in a day.

As if an engineer would refuse to use a tool that would make their lives easier. No, the reason they're not using it is because it's no good.

Microsoft seems to be only full of bad ideas, i just though it was limited to their video games department because thats just been a downward spiral being kept afloat by sacrificing parts of their games department...

My company doesn’t even have AI investments but it’s in our objectives. We have take advantage of the fact everything is apparently AI now to exclusively use stuff that isn’t what they mean.

When I needed help figuring out how to fix something in Power Automate, consulting the stuffed crow I keep at my desk was more effective than using fucking Copilot

I will take it seriously when the tech companies replace their executives with AI.

You know it's telling when employees of the company that made the ai won't even use it. If they won't why the hell would we

I have been /tempted/ to use AI to help solve a coding problem but once... And that is because the comments in the file itself say (essentially) "we were *very* drunk when we wrote this, so don't even bother asking us how it works, good luck!" But no, I'll figure out how to get it to work someday.

Maybe if we force everyone onto W11 and force our employees to use the stupid, hamfisted AI we've slammed into everything it'll be profitable and people will magically love it!

I just retired from working as a software engineer for 30 years. I had been using GitHub Copilot (voluntarily) for the previous 8 months, and was amazed at how it improved my productivity. IMHO, any software engineer *not* using AI tools is living in the past.

You're misunderstanding the mandate They want the data those interactions would provide to improve the next version. This is the training they can't just steal from the Internet

Everyone in silicon valley is all-in on AI because the allure of never having to pay employees again is too great. But they can't fix the models that are poisoning themselves with the junk data that LLMs are polluting the internet with. The crash is going to be horrific and spectacular.

It makes a bit more sense if you know that B2B software separates users and buyers.

AIbros really want this to be a car VS horse carriages debate where they are the car, without realising it's definitely not the case.

You know what? Fine. I spend 2 hours/day using ai tools. It doesnt get anything done but it's what the bosses wanted

Tshirt, plz. This is fabulous!

It's pretty good at repetitive tasks that are easily demonstrated to it.

This says it so well!

*sobbing* thiiiiiiis

The human one used the slang properly, referred to the MCG and the 'Pies, described the game as being an imperfect game. You could tell it was written by a sports writer for fans. The AI used the cliched descriptions that the game was exciting and thrilling, and wrote out the whole club names.

Those same tech enthusiasts: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

This.

Yeah, the most time AI would save me is not having to constantly check to see if I slipped and put "You stupid piece of shit" in a message reiterating something for the third time. But I have faith that AI will one day get that tired of human idiocy.

No, see, this is a brilliant step in capitalism - just FORCE people to use your products! Think of all the money saved on development and advertising if people just don't have a choice!

Why have a CEO when they can instead just use AI? It'll save the company millions removing the redundancy with the salaries they make.

imo it's more of a referendum on the entire package of "defining 'ai' in whatever way makes that claim possible while also laying everyone off and redirecting business objectives to the dumbest shit imaginable while still making everyone accountable on paper for security and shit"

What reviews?, lol. Didn't they literally just use a random algorithm the other day to decide who to lay off?

Why can't they spend time giving excel charts a drag-to-zoom feature or stop irreversibly changing "5/16" to May 16?

"Gee boss, I have an aversion to using AI slop in my conclusions." What a horrid world our POS silicon valley oligarchs are trying to foist on us.

Nah, just spend all day trying to get the AI to produce consistently perfect results. Preferably basic arithmetic.

AI: it’s the new flair! Everybody loves flair!

Frankly if I got cut from a corporation because I wasn't using the machine that plagiarizes and still gets an F enough, I'd be slipping some hundos to the guys running the server room to encourage them to suddenly have to take a shit

I would very much like to live in a world in which I did not understand everything referenced in this sentence. Man.

Butlerian Jihad Now

The AI use will continue until morale improves

Which is why Google+ is the world's biggest social media network.

AND YOU'D BETTER ALL BE DRINKING YOUR JUICERO!

This is happening all over tech

Strong "pivot to social" vibes

I'm a software engineer. We love good tools. When we find a good tool, we play with it, figure out what it can do, and talk a lot with other software engineers about why they should use it too. If there is a tool that SWEs know about, but grassroots adoption isn't happening, it's not a good tool.

Gotta love a company that ignores it's own best people: (TL;DR AI usage decreases critical thinking in Microsoft Code Engineers) www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

cackling wildly as i toggle the lever between "AI is the future, find a way to make it do your job or you're fired" and "why do I need you if AI can do your job, you're fired"

It feels to me like how they'd force their employees to work on-site when they proved to be much more productive when they worked from home. The quality of the work is not important. What's important is to show everyone that their expensive building is actually being used.

The hemorrhaging money bit. You got it in one.

For the CEOs who aren't *making* the program: it's because they paid a lot of money for a lot of corporate licenses after getting wooed by a powerpoint, as they tend to do.

How do you even quantify or prove use of GenAI? Do you need screenshots of the slop output?