Comment by palmotea

1 hour ago

> So far where I work its the Instant Pot, at least for the non-devs. We rolled out Claude & Cowork to the masses after a brief pilot. It was about a solid month and a half of heavy usage and then suddenly usage fell off a cliff. Once it stopped being a cool new toy, people just didn't find a use for it.

Your employer is doing it wrong. You need usage surveillance with sanctions for low/declining use, then people won't stop using it.

Please tell me you're being sarcastic.

  • It's industry best practice. All the market-leading companies are doing it. Do you think you know better than them?

    If there's anything I've learned as a software engineer, it's that agreeing with the ideas of business leaders and Silicon Valley VC influencers proves I'm very intelligent.