Post #56202
2025-12-12 13:33 UTC
Replies (40)
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@TragicNotCute@lemmy.world 2025-12-12 13:50
This is all of tech right now.
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@TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2025-12-12 13:56
My boss has mentioned AI once, and it was when I was asking for guidance on how to take over a twice annual presentation he used to run. He said I could just get the LLM to generate the presentation then edit it as needed. I did not do that. I just made the damn thing myself because, by him saying that, I realized he had no fucking clue how to do any of this so I didn’t have to either.
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@pebbles@sh.itjust.works 2025-12-12 13:57
My company is doing small trial runs and trying to get feedback on if stuff is helpful. They are obviously pushing things because they are hopeful, but most people report that AI is helpful about 45% of the time. I’m sorry your leadership just dove in head first. That’s sound like such a pain.
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@Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2025-12-12 14:03
Just use it to generate the kind of work he does, so that you can prove his own worthlessness
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@Passerby6497@lemmy.world 2025-12-12 14:06
I use chatgpt when I care to, and while I was given a subscription by work, I’m not actively encouraged to use it. I really only use it for researching problems that Google search is too seo poisoned to help me with, or debugging scripts. Past that it doesn’t have much professional use for me, given how much time I spend validating output and insulting the AI for hallucinations and just generally being terrible at moderate tasks. Basic data interpretation can be pretty great though. I’ve had it find a couple problems I missed after having it parse log files.
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@PonyOfWar@pawb.social 2025-12-12 14:06
My company has 2 CEOs. One of them doesn’t ever really talk about AI. The other one is personally obsessed with the topic. His picture on Teams is AI generated and every other day, he posts some random AI tutorial or news into work channels. His client presentations are mostly written by ChatGPT. But luckily, nothing is being forced on us developers. The company is very hands-off in general (some may say disorganized) and we can pretty much use any tools and methods we choose, as long as we deliver good results. I personally use AI only occassionally, mostly for quick prototyping in languages and frameworks I’m unfamiliar with.
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@Pipster@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2025-12-12 14:08
Intolerable
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@TheImpressiveX@lemmy.today 2025-12-12 14:08
I am reminded of this article. The future of web development is AI. Get on or get left behind. 5/5/2025 Editor’s Note: previous titles for this article have been added here for posterity. The future of web development is blockchain. Get on or get left behind. The future of web development is CSS-inJS. Get on or get left behind. The future of web development is Progressive Web Apps. Get on or get left behind. The future of web development is Silverlight. Get on or get left behind. The future of web development is XHTML. Get on or get left behind. The future of web development is Flash. Get on or get left behind. The future of web development is ActiveX. Get on or get left behind. The future of web development is Java applets. Get on or get left behind. If you aren’t using this technology, then you are shooting yourself in the foot. There is no future where this technology is not dominant and relevant. If you are not using this, you will be unemployable. This technology solves every development problem we have had. I can teach you how with my $5000 course.
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@Unquote0270@programming.dev 2025-12-12 14:09
Not quite that extreme where I am but it is being thrust into any kind of strategy scenario with absolutely nothing to back it up. They are desperate to incorporate.
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@skooma_king@piefed.social 2025-12-12 14:17
My boss was curious about it, so she asked me to show her how to use it. She wanted to have it summarize some data from a spreadsheet. It hallucinated with the very first prompt, and she lost all interest in it (win). Later, I disabled everything copilot I can in our tenant and implemented policies to hide/remove it from our PCs. I’ve only had one employee (one of our fire captains) complain about it so far, but I don’t feel bad as his boss was complaining about the AI slop he was turning in on fire reports. I don’t really see ChatGPT or others popping up in our network traffic either, though I don’t know how/if they are using it on personal phones. My situation might be different than the average fedi user though.. not a very technical group other than me (one guy IT department).
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@BannedVoice@lemmy.zip 2025-12-12 14:20
The organization I work for uses it but they’re taking a very cautious approach to it, we are instructed to double, triple check everything AI generated. Only use specific tools they approve for work related matters as not to train LLMs on company data and slowly rolling out AI in specific areas before they’re more widely adopted.
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@Diddlydee@feddit.uk 2025-12-12 14:23
It has absolutely no involvement anywhere which is good.
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@kamenlady@lemmy.world 2025-12-12 14:23
I’m exactly in the same boat. I’m a developer and my boss has no idea about developing. If i take long with something, he consults chatGTP and gives me the solutions chatGPT came up with. It’s exhausting…
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@Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world 2025-12-12 14:24
AI can’t do much with my job as of yet (power plant engineer). I use it sometimes to take pictures of things like specialty valves. The pics are quickly identified and can make sourcing replacements/repair/rebuild shops a bit faster. I use it to help newer guys study for their upcoming license tests too.
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@DaleGribble88@programming.dev 2025-12-12 14:25
I teach a state university in the US, and AI use is encouraged for tasks that LLMs are actually good at. Generating wrong answers for multiple choice questions, formatting latex documents, writing excel formulas, etc. We’ve also used it during some brain storming sessions to generate ideas and check for any obvious holes in our ideas.
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@KingGordon@lemmy.world 2025-12-12 14:27
I use gemini to generate code. None of it works. It gets confused between GA and beta features, enhancement requests, and doesn’t give any extra credence to official documentation, which is copious. So its basically like an intern producing little value and taking up my time.
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@ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 2025-12-12 14:28
Fortunately not that bad but the people who are using it do get praised while being a massive burden on everyone who has to review the code or worse, documents. I did see one clever usage to basically replace most front end devs with AI: client asks LLM question about our data. LLM generates code to query our data and display charts client sees results All runs with just mistral:8b. Very flexible solution compared to having front end devs constantly iterate on a UI monstrosity meant to serve every single clients needs. Of course this assumes the AI is writing the query correctly.
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@Today@lemmy.world 2025-12-12 14:34
I work in public education healthcare. A few people are using magic school or chatgpt to write goals and treatment notes, and then generate report cards. The only discussion has been these people doing brief demonstrations in department meetings.
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@Skullgrid__dup_11231@lemmy.world 2025-12-12 14:35
semi-toxic and stupid. I got the fucking AI cert they wanted me to, but instead of getting hooked up with clients to do that, I’m doing the fucking test automation since the start of this awful career.
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@cRazi_man@europe.pub 2025-12-12 14:37
My organisation has fired a bunch of people and plans to replace them completely with AI. They’re pushing us to use it. Soon it will be mandatory to use ambient, always on AI for all information recording. There’s mention of working areas AI camera surveillance to monitor for efficient use of man hours (don’t know whether the tech is developed enough for this or how practical this is). The guy working above me is doing some sort of degree in implementation of AI in business and his answer to a lot of problems is “AI could probably do that for us”. Meanwhile we get training to tell us that we will personally be held accountable for the use of any errors in the AI output we use, and we will be held responsible if we input any information that was would be deemed confidential or sensitive. BTW, copilot is already activated for all our work outlook, calendar and one drive accounts and has all that data; so not sure what would be considered more sensitive information to give.
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@Kenny2999@lemmy.world 2025-12-12 14:53
I did get a pop up reminder to utilize our company’s proprietary AI but I managed to block it thanks to local admin rights.
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@birdwing__dup_8635@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2025-12-12 14:59
Leave the company and tell others to follow suit. Or organise a protest with all colleagues.
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@happybadger@hexbear.net 2025-12-12 15:05
Thankfully it hasn’t made it into my workplace yet. We have a quarterly newsletter that someone tried to submit ChatGPT slop to. It was immediately identified and rejected by the rest of the horticulturists. My bosses are the kind of people who only talk about plants in Latin so there’s a big institutional focus on getting the right information from primary sources and then using multiple layers of expert review. However, we’re facing massive budget shortfalls over the next few years and I doubt that will get any better if the economy crashes. Outside of installing/maintaining plants, the bulk of the job is intellectual and creative labour that the public isn’t even aware of. I can absolutely see my workplace hollowing out the job and not hiring based on expertise. Instead of five people with scientific degrees debating a space for an hour, at some point it’s going to be someone who hasn’t seen that space feeding words they can’t pronounce into an LLM that doesn’t understand what space is. On paper it will look great for the metrics admins and other departments track. In practice it will immediately ratfuck everything that makes our urban forest function and drive away the really rare pool of overqualified people we have.
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@sideponcho69@piefed.social 2025-12-12 15:10
I can only speak for my use of it in software development. I work with a large, relatively complex CRUD system so take the following as you will, but we have Claude integrated with MCPs and agent skills and it’s honestly been phenomenal. Initially we were told to “just use it” (Copilot at the time). We essentially used it as an enhanced google search. It wasn’t great. It never had enough context and as such the logic it produced would not make sense, but it was handy for fixing bugs. The advent of MCPs and agents skills really bring it to another level. It has far more context. It can pull tickets from Jira, read the requirements, propose a plan and then implement it once you’ve approved it. You can talk it through, ask it to explain some of the decisions it made and alter the plan as it’s implemented. It’s not perfect but what it can achieve when you have MCPs, skills, md files all set up is crazy. The push for this was from non-tech management who are most definitely driven by hype/FOMO. So much so they actually updated our contracts to include AI use. In our case, it paid off. I think it’s a night and day difference between using base Copilot to ask questions vs using it with context sources.
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@lib1@hexbear.net 2025-12-12 15:18
I use it a couple times a day and always double check its output. It works decently well for what I want it to do.
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@Gerudo@lemmy.zip 2025-12-12 15:24
My direct boss is obsessed with perplexity, and our company just added CoPilot. I’m in sales, and my boss is always telling me to use AI to generate my responses to customer requests. I can reply in a 100% professional method faster than it takes to create the prompt, generate it, proofread it, and then copy and paste. Admittedly, our SharePoint site is very robust, and anything I need CoPilot for to search could just be done inside the search box in SharePoint. It’s so redundant.
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@nothx@hexbear.net 2025-12-12 15:28
My company has its own internal system that leverages GPT models. So yeah it’s definitely becoming prevalent. My boss specifically is always toting it as some amazing tool, all the other business wankers think it’s great, my direct colleagues have taken to letting it summarize their meeting notes and clean up their emails before sending. All in all, it’s a grim situation. From the execs who think it will change the workforce for the better, down to the average workers who are losing their ability to proofread. I’m beyond the point of airing my grievances and just find myself idly standing by hoping enough of them get owned by it somehow and become weary of it. I don’t think that’s gonna happen, but a guy can dream.
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@UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 2025-12-12 15:35
The most technically illiterate leaders are pushing the hell out of using for things that don’t make sense while the workers who know what they are doing are finding some limited utility. Out biggest concern is that people are going to be using it for the wrong stuff and fail to account for the errors and limitations.
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@TheOneCurly@feddit.online 2025-12-12 15:40
I hear there’s some sort of AI mandate coming but no idea what it is yet. A few coworkers poke at chatGPT for basic coding questions. I will not use it for anything at this point. IT here is mostly useless contractors so they can’t tell what we’re doing and they can’t make us do anything. My direct reporting chain will back me working how I want to work so I don’t foresee any issues. I fully recognize I’m in a highly privileged position that many others aren’t. But I’m going to take full advantage and keep my sanity.
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@venusaur@lemmy.world 2025-12-12 15:51
Please tell me if I’ve become an idiot from AI, but it feels like “manually” researching things on Google isn’t as good as it was before. I can hardly find the answers I used to.
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@knightly@pawb.social 2025-12-12 15:52
I got laid off because I didn’t use Copilot after discovering that it wasn’t helpful for any of my job duties.
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@bdonvr@thelemmy.club 2025-12-12 15:53
They sent us an email saying that we should only use Copilot built into the Microsoft 365 stuff work provided, if we use AI. But no mandate or instructions otherwise thankfully.
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@golden_zealot@lemmy.ml 2025-12-12 15:53
The owner of the software company I work at openly said to a room full of multiple clients that he believed that AI is a bubble and that it is going fail, but nonetheless let them know the business would be adding an optional AI feature to one aspect of the software product for those who want it, and even at that it’s not an LLM or anything, it’s intended to try to speed up the re-creation of specific types of diagrams based on an input of the original diagrams. There is no requirement or suggestion to use AI as an employee at my company, personal preference for how each person works is generally respected and everything goes through a few layers of review regardless. All the management cares about is that the work gets done somehow. There’s one dev who uses it for 1 or 2 things on rare occasions, no one else ever uses it.
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@abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 2025-12-12 16:13
The splution seems obvious. Let ChatGPT do the work, while you look for employment elsewhere. You get a LLM genrated email? You let the LLM respond to that email…
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@GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 2025-12-12 16:27
We get encouraged to try out AI tools for various purposes to see where we can find value out of them, if any. There are some use-cases where the tech makes sense when wielded correctly, and in those cases I make use of it. In other cases, I don’t. So far, I suspect we may be striking a decent balance. I have however noticed a concern trend of people copy-pasting unfiltered slop as a response to various scenarios, which is obviously not helpful.
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@Red5@lemmygrad.ml 2025-12-12 16:54
I sat through a meeting today where we played a game: guess the brand shown in the AI slop images. This was after being shown uses of Gemini like “ask questions about the current meeting” (presumably because most meetings are meaningless and nobody listens)
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@dwemthy@lemmy.world 2025-12-12 17:03
We are definitely encouraged to use it where I work. There are regular sessions for engineers to share workflows they’re using with LLMs. What surprised me recently is the objective metrics that the company is trying to gather about usage. Not just in usage amount, but also quality. We put labels on our PRs to indicate to what extent we used AI and which tools, with a “wasn’t helpful” option. It’s a lot better than my previous job that went full build-a-new-product-on-top-of-ChatGPT
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@buttwater@hexbear.net 2025-12-12 17:08
The incompetent coworkers who usually ask me to do things for them (data entry etc) are asking ai first. One of the boomer managers is regularly printing out Google’s AI search result summaries as a basis for research and to write emails for him, which is impressively irresponsible. No top-down expectation to use, which is nice.
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@teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 2025-12-12 17:16
I’m in software. The company gives us access and broadly states they’d like people to find uses for it, but no mandates. People on my team occasionally find uses for it, but we understand what it is, what it can do, and what it would need to be able to do for it to be useful. And usually it’s not. If I thought anyone sent me an email written with AI, I would ask them politely but firmly to never waste my time like that again. I find using AI for writing email to be highly disrespectful. If I worked at a company making a habit out of that, I would leave.
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@LaBellaLotta@hexbear.net 2025-12-12 17:46
I’m very lucky that the leadership at my company is kinda mixed on it. I continue to feel that one of the big shortcomings with this shit is that the utility just does not translate into meatspace, they aren’t even pretending it does. That’s why Musk is making this renewed push on robotics. He’s the only one that understands that they’re probably gonna see the bubble pop sooner rather than later if they can’t find a way to threaten the labor force OUTSIDE of tech. My thoughts go out to my comrades in the tech world rn because I will truly pull my hair out if I ever get this bullshit shoved down my throat like that. If I were you I would try and make the most of it by using it antagonistically. These fucking things are ostensibly mining our brains to supplant us in society. Why shouldn’t we shovel them full of bullshit? Especially if you’re being forced to have to try and “use” this garbage. If all you can do is accelerate the declining utility of this stuff some small bit while on company time than more power to you. Maybe that wouldn’t work because it logs everything but you can always chalk it up to trying to “train” it.