I absolutely despise state of org structures in mid-big companies due to mediocre devs and more than that mediocre middle managers that are responsible for putting out policies.

They are on doom spiral but somehow keep themselves afloat. Heard a policy for one of them is like you need to be using AI for 80% of your job? They are being run as if the person using it is unable to think for themselves. If you are micromanaging prompting why not fire the plebian, and use agents and 100% AI bitch.

But most companies are like this, why?

Wow. People are becoming dumber, it would seem.

Hopefully we'll still have enough intelligent && level-headed ones to counter those dumb types.

If I don't know a library I will chatgpt to create example that I can have it tweak. That saves probably an hour or two of finding an example that shows the intended API. Having it tweak helps to find functions I would need configuring the API. So it is useful up front. But not 80% of what I am doing. I am not even sure how I would accomplish using it for 80%.

We have a policy of not letting external AI models look at your code. We plan on making internal models for this. It will be interesting to see how useful these internal models will be. Interpretation of our existing codebase will be interesting as well. Lots of different coding styles and approaches. Some of the code just makes me want to work somewhere else. I hope a model that learns our codebase doesn't suggest we do things the same for a lot of our shitty code.

@YourMom Most art forms, code is rapidly turning valueless, unless you are doing something out of the ordinary for defense, finance, or your code is littered with sensitive information, I see no good reason to just use a public model tbh, afterall most businesses don't care about quality code, just whatever works and is churned out fast.

@jassole we support those industries. We have also had chinese companies steal our work (our chinese affiliates no less). So we are actively making it harder for them to do so. There are trade secrets in the code as well. Not so much the parts, but the whole. The ways its used.

edit: It may very well have sensitive info in there that I don't recognize. Maybe knowledge of customer practices to some extent.

Feel you, a client grew rapidly and instead of nurturing the system we made for them (still in python 2 today!), they went the rewrite route. Guess which one still process millions of records and which on their clients avoid