Some Amazon employees said they were still sceptical of AI tools’ utility for the bulk of their work given the risk of error. They added that the company had set a target for 80 per cent of developers to use AI for coding tasks at least once a week and was closely tracking adoption.
AI “safety experts”: AI is so powerful, it’ll turn into Hackerbot and take down websites on its own!
AI in real life: so crappy that developers who trust it will break their own websites with the code it makes
We got to give them due credit. They were spot on on the end result, but just missed on the cause leading to it lol
It’s almost like
industry mouthpiecessafety experts want us to believe AI is super capable, when the real danger is it’s super incapable…
I don’t get these companies that are trying to force AI down people’s throats.
I really like how mine is handling this. They gave us Gemini like 6 months ago, along with about a paragraph at most saying that we must stop using AI services from unvetted providers (GPT, etc) with company or customer data, because we needed to have legal agreements in place for that.
Nobody ever mentioned it again, at all. They probably provided us with that AI because we had people using all sorts of services and it was becoming a nightmare, so they signed some contract to cover data protection requirements and said “here, use this one if you must”.
Now it’s just there. There’s zero pressure to use it. Some Google guys wanted to come over to make some presentations, some people signed up for those but they were entirely optional.
You use it if you have a use case for it, or don’t, doesn’t matter. The only metrics are the one we’ve always had - deliver good work, on time. How you do that is up to you.
In my company we use google workplace and we all have gemini pro. Im sysadmin but i would never use it since they are tracking all the prompts and could be analyzed by my company as well
That’s just par for the course, like with emails, slack messages etc, always assume they have access to everything.
Some Amazon employees said they were still sceptical of AI tools’ utility for the bulk of their work given the risk of error. They added that the company had set a target for 80 per cent of developers to use AI for coding tasks at least once a week and was closely tracking adoption.
Our product is so good, we mandate our employees to use it and watch them closely to make sure they do!
imo, all Amazon employees should do 100% of the work in ai. don’t review it afterwards, just push it to live. if these companies want it so bad, literally give it to them. WHEN shit breaks, blame their tools. use AI to fix, rinse and repeat. let these companies kill themselves from the inside.
Even if the goal is not to kill the company, provoking the expected risks through malicious compliance is a good way to demonstrate the risks and push for a more careful and skeptical assessment and use.
No fuck that noise, there is no “I told you so” that will ever lead to understanding. Experts with experience in their fields should be respected and their advice followed, no exceptions.
We’re all vibe coders on this blessed day.
Vibe coders did nothing wrong.
