I have a boss who tells us weekly that everything we do should start with AI. Researching? Ask ChatGPT first. Writing an email or a document? Get ChatGPT to do it. They send me documents they “put together” that are clearly ChatGPT generated, with no shame. They tell us that if we aren’t doing these things, our careers will be dead. And their boss is bought in to AI just as much, and so on. I feel like I am living in a nightmare.

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.

What happens when anthropic triple their prices and your company is totally dependent on them for any development work? You can’t just stop using it because no in house developers, if there are even any left, will understand the codebase.