Comment by mjr00

21 days ago

From talking to colleagues at Microsoft it's a very management-driven push, not developer-driven. Friend on an Azure team had a team member who was nearly put on a PIP because they refused to install the internal AI coding assistant. Every manager has "number of developers using AI" as an OKR, but anecdotally most devs are installing the AI assistant and not using it or using it very occasionally. Allegedly it's pretty terrible at C# and PowerShell which limits its usefulness at MS.

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shepherdjerred  21 days ago

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  • antihipocrat  21 days ago

    That's exactly what senior executives who aren't coding are saying everywhere.

    Meanwhile, engineers are using it for code completion and as a Google search alternative.

    I don't see much difference here at all, the only habit to change is learning to trust an AI solution as much as a Stack Overflow answer. Though the benefit of SO is each comment is timestamped and there are alternative takes, corrections, caveats in the comments.

    • AdieuToLogic  20 days ago

      > I don't see much difference here at all, the only habit to change is learning to trust an AI solution as much as a Stack Overflow answer. Though the benefit of SO is each comment is timestamped and there are alternative takes, corrections, caveats in the comments.

      That's a pretty big benefit, considering the feedback was by people presumably with relevant expertise/experience to contribute (in the pre-LLM before-time).

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  • mjr00  21 days ago

    What does this have to do with my comment? Did you mean to reply to someone else?

    I don't understand what this has to do with AI adoption at MS (and Google/AWS, while we're at it) being management-driven.

  • adamsb6  20 days ago

    There's a large group of people that claim that AI tools are no good and I can't tell if they're in some niche where they truly aren't, they don't care to put any effort into learning the tools, or they're simply in denial.

  • evantbyrne  20 days ago

    It's just tooling. Costs nothing to wait for it to be better. It's not like you're going miss out on AGI. The cost of actually testing every slop code generator is non-trivial.