Comment by xvector
2 days ago
Working in big tech it's pretty wild to see how integral AI has become to our work internally, vs the public perception of it. People are NOT prepared.
2 days ago
Working in big tech it's pretty wild to see how integral AI has become to our work internally, vs the public perception of it. People are NOT prepared.
1. Hyperbolic statement about LLM capabilities with no concrete examples
2. Wild claim that the companies that sell LLMs are actually downplaying their capabilities instead of hyping them
Personal experience here in a FAANG, there has been a considerable increase in: 1. Teams exploring how to leverage LLMs for coding. 2. Teams/orgs that already standardized some of the processes to work with LLMs (MCP servers, standardized the creation of the agents.md files, etc) 3. Teams actively using it for coding new features, documenting code, increasing test coverage, using it for code reviews etc.
Again, personal, experience, but in my team ~40-50% of the PRs are generated by Codex.
“Teams exploring how to leverage [AI]s for [anything]” is true for about a decade now in every large multinational companies at every level. It’s not new at all. AI is the driving buzzword for a while now, even well before ChatGPT. I’ve encountered many people who just wanted the stamp that they use AI, no matter how, because my team was one of the main entry point to achieve this at that specific company. But before ChatGPT and co, you had to work for it a lot, so most of them failed miserably, or immediately backtracked when they realized this.
Im sure the MBA folks love stats like that - theres plenty that have infested big tech. I mean Pichai is an MBA+Mckinsey Alumni.
Ready for the impending lay off fella?
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Yup, he's totally lying. Not happening. Just carry on.
Agreed, but why are they lying?
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I've heard of one study that said AI slows developers down, even when they think it's helping.
https://www.infoworld.com/article/4061078/the-productivity-p...
It is true sometimes, but other times it saves hours. We're all still in the learning stage of how best to use these new tools, and their capabilities are growing constantly.
AI may slow coding a bit but dramatically reduces cognitive load.
The real value of AI isn't in helping coding. It's in having a human-like intelligence to automate processes. I can't get into details but my team is doing things that I couldn't dream of three years ago.
It does dramatically reduce cognitive load. I think that part is understated and lost to the headline of how it writes two thousand lines of code in 30 seconds.
Not prepared for what? Seems like the rest of the world is desperate to be shown the way to unlock something of value?
I think at this point it's software devs looking for the value unlock.
Non-software devs are actually making functional programs for themselves for the first time ever. The value is crazy.
It’s not the first time ever. People did the same with Access and HyperCard in the 90s.
Sure but I'm the real world do you think businesses are going to deploy piles of code into production generated this way? No, non technical people will continue to whip up MS PowerApps. AI generated code has no value to many businesses.
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Not everyone has given in to the crutch.
That's why I still use an abacus.
The abacus skills are safely obsolete, the skills of general thinking and creativity must not become that. This couldn't be more specious.
Meme thinking like this, repeating something you've heard as reflex without regard to whether it fits a situation, is the exact kind of unoriginality we can't allow to become the default mode of thinking.
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