My workplace is fully embracing AI in the worst way possible

2026-07-13 09:54 UTC

small rant incoming I work for a company that it’s mostly hardware focused, but we do ship some software for the final consumer including drivers and programs, to make use of said hardware. While I am not in the software department, I held some SWE positions in previous companies for over a decade, our software isn’t very complex and I do know most of it pretty well. Our employee just announced a new AI-only development cycle, they want all code submissions and reviews to be exclusively done by claude, effectively ending ownership of the code being shipped to customers. This is absolute madness. Today, I received an email scheduling a workshop on how to integrate claude into vscode and how to work with the new gitflow, namely removing our authorship from commits and having al code reviews done by a LLM now. I am just baffled at the decision. edit: wow I’m a bit overwhelmed by the response, I did read all of you. Thanks!

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@cobysev@lemmy.world 2026-07-13 11:13

I’m retired, so I don’t have to deal with this AI garbage… but I have a friend who’s a manager of a decent-sized office at an accounting firm. He told me recently that, not only are all employees required to use AI in their daily work, but my friend has to write weekly reports to his bosses on how AI is improving workflow in the office. He’s not allowed to say, “It’s not.” Only positive feedback. They need to justify its continued use, so he needs to find benefits to report to the higher-ups. Sadly, he’s the only one who doesn’t like/use AI. Everyone else in his office has basically replaced their jobs with it. Every report that comes across his desk is AI nonsense, which he has to spend time fixing because his subordinates don’t know how to write reports without AI assistance. I do not envy my friend.

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@gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 2026-07-13 16:34

Fork the repos that matter now, and squirrel them away somewhere, just in case someone gets froggy and gives Claude write access to your repos and fucks the history of something interesting like that. Always good to have a backup contingency.

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@HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 2026-07-14 04:27

Same seems to happen with some healthcare software in Germany.

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@Glytch@lemmy.world 2026-07-14 04:34

Time to start tokenmaxing and make this as costly a decision as possible

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@acchariya@lemmy.world 2026-07-14 04:34

Where I work the code quality is so bad LLMs were a net improvement

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@JoMiran@lemmy.ml 2026-07-13 12:52

For the most part, I am an AI sceptic. My firm has had access to and beta tested every Google AI model since before the AI had a name (yes, well before Bard). We also have access to ChatGPT, Claude and locally run models on dedicated hardware. I’ll save you the suspense, at the moment it’s all mostly trash. Barely a proof of concept. Definitely not production ready, but there are a few exceptions I, personally, have found. Gemini Pro is excellent at identifying and diagnosing sick garden plants if you take and upload a photos of the plants. Unfortunately, it still cannot do simple arithmetic. A simple SUM that any spreadsheet does automatically by just highlighting the cells, and somehow it was still off by one. For software dev, the only one product we have found to be useful is Claude, BUT it really depends on the model. Haiku is a joke. Sonnet is not bad, if not bad is ~50% accuracy. Opus is fairly descent at building scaffolding that you can then correct and complete, but don’t expect efficient code. The only model we have ever tested that can deliver ALMOST fully functional code, reliably diagnose errors, and review code is Mythos/Fable. Genuinely not absolute shite, BUT that shit is extremely slow and outrageously expensive. I seriously doubt that your company is forking out the money for Claude Fable as their default model, and if they are, they must not care about ever making a profit.

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@one_old_coder@piefed.social 2026-07-13 10:19

I’ve been looking for a job for the past 6 months. Every interview I had (more than 50) hinted that some Claude or Copilot was being used more and more. Some companies even want to hire “junior AI engineer.” How the fuck can you hire a junior with a non-existing degree and that knows nothing about a technology so recent? I found one and only one company who officially rejects AI, and I hope they’ll hire me.

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@iusemybrain@sh.itjust.works 2026-07-13 12:23

I’ve been thinking about AI in the workspace recently, these companies are implementing AI into everything despite our comments to remove it. that got me thinking, the US is currently in an economic bubble on an empty promise that AI will someday be relevant. It clearly isn’t benefiting society as of late, so they encourage workspaces to use it and to continue hoisting the stock market by it’s propaganda (that it is relevant). Because workspaces know the US is in deep shit right now, and so you know what’s worse than delivering shitty software, an economic crash. don’t put this on yourself, preserve the shitty code reviews while the US goes through an identity crisis. Investors will inevitably come to the realization that it isn’t sustainable.

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@lechekaflan@lemmy.world 2026-07-14 01:09

Because the goddamn suits think AI is going to make them more money, despite that it practically uses mined/stolen data and consumes more electricity than a small city.

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