@bitinn@mastodon.gamedev.place
Post #1236872
2026-04-17 01:54 UTC
Replies (40)
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@bitinn@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-04-17 01:56
Deleted the poll accidentally, now fixed 🍀
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@wollman@mastodon.social 2026-04-17 02:27
@bitinn I'm not sure how to answer that. I work in an AI lab -- the original one. Nothing I do uses or integrates AI, but nearly everything I do supports AI research. So I don't get evaluated on the basis of using the stuff, but I certainly do get evaluated on the basis of whether the network and storage services work well enough for graduate students to train and evaluate their models. (In part this is because "AI"'s voracious demand for compute has crowded out other avenues of CS research.)
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@Jam123@mstdn.ca 2026-04-17 02:29
@bitinn approved for use with guidelines. Management pointed out that it should not replace human decision making.
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@unattributed@gotosocial.social 2026-04-17 02:36
@bitinn I answerd no, but understand: I am self employed and set my own policies. :ab_grin:
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@QCCEChris@mastodon.social 2026-04-17 03:19
@bitinn I'm going to say, No, at the local level I'm at. But administrative/exec ends, really high up, it might be a yes. They're not too bright/logical. Though, we use MS products, which is a forced yes, as copilot is embedded against my will. And we also use Google products. If I can convince the higher ups where I work to more Linux systems, away from MS, Google, and the like, this problem will be just voluntary (which is how it should be). Again, the exec end is not too bright/logical.
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@Mage_of_Chaos@mastodon.social 2026-04-17 03:21
@bitinn If I go so far as to become a CEO of a company (KNOWLEDGEABLY this time) or an advisor, financially or otherwise, Artificial Intelligence will not be allowed to be used as communication generation or script management, it's that simple. Human judgement is a mental labor type. I am okay with it being used for infographics with actual statistics but I do not trust it's repositories for anything that peoples careers, and therefore lives and families stability, depend on in a company.
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@Mage_of_Chaos@mastodon.social 2026-04-17 03:28
@bitinn Also grammerly can suck my peen, and die in a fucking fire.
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@maemoon@mas.to 2026-04-17 03:30
@bitinn I am a student and we have had a couple assignments where we are required to use AI
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@teoman@discuss.systems 2026-04-17 03:37
@bitinn This year it will be mandatory to show how you became more productive using AI in our performance reviews, at the company I work for. Unfortunately our boss is fully hooked on it, so when a colleague pointed out he cannot trust the AI's answers, our boss's suggestion was to just send the AI output to someone else to verify it.
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@aaron@chirp.zadzmo.org 2026-04-17 03:44
@bitinn Absolute mandate / tracking, no. Pressure is racheting up though. They keep scheduling training sessions and asking when I'll join one.
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@scottymace@infosec.exchange 2026-04-17 03:54
@bitinn What's a workplace? #unemployedthings
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@fabio@cosocial.ca 2026-04-17 04:02
@bitinn my job went full on, all out and “do it or else”
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@stuartl@mastodon.longlandclan.id.au 2026-04-17 04:05
@bitinn No forced direct usage… but a lot of the tools we use (looking at you Atlassian) are desperately trying to ram AI down our collective throats. I've had enough.
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@porglezomp@mastodon.social 2026-04-17 04:23
@bitinn no but it’s looking increasingly likely to emerge
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@Holls@sfba.social 2026-04-17 04:25
@bitinn For now, we don’t have to use AI, but they are really pushing it. We had to go to this big conference that was run by some douche who made his money convincing other people they could leverage AI to solve all their problems. I think that guy was completely full of crap. They asked us to do projects with AI and report back. I was just not impressed. Plus the environmental impacts are a no go. Not to mention that it’s stealing peoples work, art, music, etc. Oh , and taking real people’s jobs. At my job using AI is a choice, and say hell to the nah.
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@ianburnette@toot.community 2026-04-17 04:34
@bitinn You're missing a "Not officially, but the company culture clearly favors AI use" 😩
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@mindlessenigma@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-04-17 04:45
@bitinn Completing a training course was mandatory. Using it is encouraged. Some people, including myself, are restricted from using due to policies around accessing old code repos. They're trying to use AI access as an incentive to move the repos to new systems faster.
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@quincy@chaos.social 2026-04-17 04:53
@bitinn no, but some (including at the top) are pushing this bullshit hard and most coworkers aren't willing to resist, so it's coming from all sides now. my most concrete worry right now is that they're going to use one of those monstrosities for "reviews", apparently believing it can do this better, thus forcing it on everyone via the CI/CD.
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@Su_G@aus.social 2026-04-17 05:38
@bitinn Wow! That’s interesting: 60% today. “ I ran this poll 2 years ago and 90% of the correspondents on mastodon told me there were no required AI usage at their workplace.” #requiredAIUsage #AI #workplace #biennial
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@Turre@mementomori.social 2026-04-17 06:01
@bitinn Folks in the "No AI-requirements" workplaces: If you are comfortable doing so, please name the companies so folks can favor them when relevant and possible. And of course the names of AI-requiring companies hall of shame would be equally valuable for avoiding.
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@jiub@not.an.evilcyberhacker.net 2026-04-17 06:38
@bitinn@mastodon.gamedev.place no but i think most of my colleagues do and i'm afraid it's only a matter of time before i'm pressured into it unless the bubble pops first
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@grumpyoldtechie@hostux.social 2026-04-17 07:26
@bitinn I'm self employed, so no.
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@grumpydad@infosec.exchange 2026-04-17 07:39
@bitinn The at the moment ~25% yes on this poll is really depressing. Luckily (or unfortunately, depending on how you see things), the place I work at has a very conservative (no, not as in politics) view of software development.
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@mysturji@mastodonapp.uk 2026-04-17 07:44
@bitinn You forgot “No, but everyone at work keeps raving about how good it is and telling me I should use it while I delete copilot from my company laptop at least twice a week”.
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@ninafelwitch@tech.lgbt 2026-04-17 07:59
@bitinn every AI related project in this company has failed spectacularly. And instead of admitting that investing this much in AI was a mistake, the head of the company keeps pushing it. He's neck deep in the grift. But he's also into homeopathy and other nonsense, so I'm really not surprised.
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@luciedigitalni@aus.social 2026-04-17 08:04
@bitinn I would resign if they did
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@soundasleep@mastodon.social 2026-04-17 08:12
@bitinn I'm doing a similar survey, but for gen AI in video games! https://mastodon.social/@soundasleep/116411137785392138
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@FayeDrake@furry.engineer 2026-04-17 08:22
@bitinn I’d love to see a category of “technically voluntary, however we’ve rearranged all the support structures to make it de facto obligatory except now we can blame you when you can’t do your job” Think building knowledge bases so that the only practical way to use them is to use an LLM.
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@adipoeserPursch@troet.cafe 2026-04-17 08:48
@bitinn Not yet...
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@rhelune@todon.eu 2026-04-17 09:42
@bitinn No, but I am being unofficially pressured to use them, asked if my performance review depended on it, was told no, asked to get it in writing, got nothing.
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@jmax@mastodon.social 2026-04-17 09:58
@bitinn I am currently unemployed, so didn't answer. But the reason I left my last job was that that bullshit was clearly on the way.
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@aanee@mastodon.online 2026-04-17 10:46
@bitinn People use it. I've gotten at least one "ChatGPT said..." message, which ofc was wrong. But I don't and I haven't seen any requirements stated anywhere. I usually don't have problems that can't be solved by a quick noai.duckduckgo-ing, or requiers proper research and thinking. And the LLMs does not RTFM.
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@jeneralist@mstdn.science 2026-04-17 10:49
@bitinn No requirements, but has set productivity goals that are unrealistic unless you use AI based tools and don't spend time checking their work.
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@claus@hachyderm.io 2026-04-17 10:53
@bitinn use is mandated for ALL activities. Management aims to distill every employee's knowledge, while gating all activities through a bespoke agent that eliminates any portability of acquired knowledge. Anyone who refuses to participate is at risk of losing their job.
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@joaozera@organica.social 2026-04-17 11:34
@bitinn They're planning on this where I work. The main setback is price I think, so the comany has a limited number of active licenses at any given time. Never asked for one, never will
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@JosephLord@union.place 2026-04-17 11:40
@bitinn Not quite required but strongly encouraged although fortunately I’m currently blocked from using most of the code related tooling due to having access to things that the risk of being ingested and regurgitated is too high.
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@odo@dustbuster.club 2026-04-17 11:41
@bitinn @Girgias I wanted the option “Not yet but they’re coming soon”. We’re not *required* to use them yet but the writing is on the wall, I think.
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@dyrathror@mastodon.social 2026-04-17 11:46
@bitinn We are using AI where I'm working, internally and for customer project. I expect that somewhere in the future it will become mandatory for certain tasks, including decision making, but so far it isn't.
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@trainguyrom@techhub.social 2026-04-17 12:57
@bitinn I'm in a wonky spot in this regard. My company doesn't require AI use, but the CTO is extremely excited for the possibilities it presents to save people time on tasks, and given how close I work to the CTO that means I should be using it. It's also become my play to get a job offer from being an independent contractor, as AI appears to be the only project that is getting enough new capital greenlit to bridge the gap on getting me a job offer as someone who's run local models at home. The problem of course is, I'm becoming increasingly jaded on AI and increasingly believe most of the applications of AI in the org will be replaced either with a human or with traditional code as soon as the license cost starts balooning (which it will sooner or later!)
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@starluna@mastodon.social 2026-04-17 13:13
@bitinn I own my consulting firm and we have a strict no GenAI / LLM policy. I have a staff of 2 who are both artists and were more then supportive; they helped write the policy. Because we do research and some of that research involves modeling, there's some machine learning that we do. But no generative AI. No LLM.