Comment by whstl
2 days ago
In some cases there's also no preparation or verification happening at all, which massively inflates the productivity gains of AI. Lots of VCs and investors asking companies to move into "trust the AI" mode.
I once consulted for a company in the content marketing business that was one of the largest and fastest growing startups of its country. The content production in itself was "cheap", a dollar for 500 words. But it collapsed, due to the unbearable amount of people required to review
Now virtually all content is generated by AI and the old customers don't have anyone to verify anymore.
Companies are made of people who are shitty to each other but trust machines blindly.
i see this first-hand at $company, where the pr's are so obtuse and descriptions are incomprehensible or just too long and gratuitous that thorough code review is also falling by the wayside and becoming more of a "rubber stamp"; this is what management is calling "productivity boost"...
Another productivity boost I'm seeing is from $COMPANY is asking devs to let AI do the design, instead of having a designer do it.
I have a dirty secret: I do the design myself.
Productivity gains are still there. People are amazed at the "AI".