Comment by fcatalan

My org is always a decade behind, so I'm still just ignoring the official push for whatever Oracle low code crap is called.

Hiring is as haphazard and inadequate as it has been in the last 25 years, no change there.

AI usage is personal, widespread and on a don't ask don't tell basis.

I use it a lot to:

- Write bullshit reports that no one ever reads.

- Generate minimal documentation for decade old projects that had none.

- Small, low stakes, low complexity improvements, like when having to update this page that was ugly when someone created it in 1999, I'll plop it on aistudio to give it a basic bootstrap treatment.

- Simple automation that wasn't worth it before: Write me a bash script that does this thing that only comes up twice a year but I always hate.

- A couple times I have tried to come up with more complex greenfield stuff to do things that are needed but management doesn't ever acknowledge, but it always falls apart and starts needing actual work.

Morale is quite crappy, as ever, but since some of the above feels like secretly sticking it to The Man, there are these beautiful moments.

For example when the LLM almost nails your bimonthly performance self report from your chat history, and it takes 10 minutes instead of 2 hours, so you get to quietly look out of the window for a long while, feeling relaxed and smug about pocketing some of the gains from this awesome performance improvement.