Comment by bhelkey
20 hours ago
> work which only exists because of AI
Could you elaborate? What work are you doing which only exists because of AI?
20 hours ago
> work which only exists because of AI
Could you elaborate? What work are you doing which only exists because of AI?
For all my user facing work I’m now required to do an AI summary of what I did and the impact. That summary is then graded by AI, against an AI generated rubric. For my yearly review, I use AI to summarize my summaries, and my managers AI summarizes the AI generated grades.
I’m also required to explain how I use AI in my work. I must plan all of my future work, with an AI tool. Another AI assesses whether my work is aligning with planned work.
Before I work and after I work, there is a million circular references that exist solely because of AI. These have scaled because it’s so easy to do with AI, but the we’re wasting so much time doing a ton of extra things very efficiently.
Let me do my job. My manager should know how I’m doing. Maybe highlight key wins. CSATs/etc go out every year.
Even before my last job had internally approved AI, my manager told me how he was using chatgpt on his personal computer to prepare our yearly reviews. Then when they released AI internally a few weeks later, it was still review time, and their first advertised use case was for doing your own self eval and the evals for your reports. I am willing to deal with vibed code but turning over employee evals to AI too is a sign of truly terrible management
Does any of this get read? I mean by an actual human?
This sounds truly Kafkaesque. And thank you for finally allowing me to use that word in earnest.
The people who in theory read these are managers 3+ levels above me, so I honestly have no idea. I know my manager reads mine, but I haven’t seen any outcome from that.
I honestly got turned off a few sentences in. Sounds like a nightmare.
> This sounds truly Kafkaesque. And thank you for finally allowing me to use that word in earnest.
Kafka and Byzantium had a baby.
So….you have outsourced multiple layers of middle-management to AI? I am not sure getting AI to write and review your TPS reports is going to move the needle.
The TPS production/consumption stats disagree, they're up 300% just this quarter. Can't argue with results
Its true, a part of me died when an "AI first" company after adoption of AI introduced a mandatory design report (waterfall all over again) for EACH jira ticket before starting to code
Imagine developers move faster because of AI programming! No lets create more slop for other slopmachines
It’s true, design has made a big comeback. Now we actually have time to design things carefully and try the design easily with LLM. This was just too expensive before but now the calculation changed completely. I am now using spec graphs to design systems and I have been able to create things much more advanced than I was able to before by myself. This is huge! People are still figuring this out for themselves. But now we can design things, have multiple rounds of adjustments in an afternoon, have things implemented differently and actually measure the trade offs. The final product is so much better it’s crazy. If you had an eye for design before, now this is your world. If you didn’t, yeah your will probably just bias the LLM into producing shit solutions, even if it tries to warn you about it, it still follows orders in the end.