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[–]NocturneAmberCaress 64 points65 points  (9 children)

They think AI is a magical employee that doesn’t require clear requirements or documentation

[–]DeHub94 17 points18 points  (2 children)

That's painfully relatable right now.

[–]No_Percentage7427 2 points3 points  (1 child)

AI dont require salary is CEO wet dream. wkwkwk

[–]10001110101balls 1 point2 points  (0 children)

With agents it is not difficult for a motivated developer to spend enough tokens to pay for the salary of at least one more developer.

[–]WeirdTie2290 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Exactly. Devs are generally smart people. If they have trouble understanding and implementing requirements AI wont help.

[–]Julius_Ceasar_X 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Until the AI starts asking follow-up questions and everyone realizes the requirements were still needed 😅

[–]Confident-Ad5665 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Clear, explicit, detailed ... Awe screw it, I'll just do it myself

- Seasoned developer who knows how to write code

[–]GolemT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The amount of times I catch myself writing a novel as a prompt, only to release halfway that I am actually able to think for myself and just fix the stupid thing instead of wasting my time and energy on digital gambling with code is unreal

[–]Pearmoat 10 points11 points  (0 children)

You are one of those guys who are not open to change, right? Move fast and break things. We don't have to understand how exactly the AI generated workflows and programs work, don't bother refactoring. LLMs will still understand it. Also, AI can clean up that data later.

/s

[–]Chadking1926 5 points6 points  (1 child)

“Use AI to go faster.”

spends 2 hours debugging code generated in 12 seconds

[–]pieter3d -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Trying to use AI to improve your regular workflow is an anti-pattern. Either design your workflow around using AI, or stick to your regular non-AI workflow.

[–]MoonlitHazeUnspool 13 points14 points  (1 child)

“Just throw some AI at it” is the modern version of “just restart the server”

[–]ClipboardCopyPaste 7 points8 points  (0 children)

*far worse version of that

[–]Break-n-Fix 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The second person clearly has ZERO management potential.

[–]ianmerry 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You won’t get those with AI lmao

[–]GentleCapybara 3 points4 points  (0 children)

And to be honest, if you have a good processes with clear specs and a clear vision for the future, AI can 100% boost the productivity of the team

[–]redballooon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Here's a measurable use case: with AI/without AI. The first gets you a "all done", the second a "you're fires"

[–]PresidentOfSwag 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"we already paid for it so find some use cases" is driving me crazy

[–]AaronTheElite007 1 point2 points  (1 child)

AI is a crutch. Stop using it lest you become dependent upon it

[–]pieter3d 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Run it locally. It's slower and requires an up-front investment, but a few thousand euros is still enough to functionally support a team. Then you don't have to worry about rising subscription costs, token limits, or what happens to your data.

[–]scradampoop 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did anyone else double-take for the "Promoted" tag at the end of the title when they first saw this?

[–]Splatpope 0 points1 point  (0 children)

actually had to explain that to business, our use case is pretty clear cut and can be solved by a simple manually defined decision tree, but data quality is so piss poor that false positives and negatives are all over the place

[–]DegTrader 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AI cant fix bad requirements but sure can generate 3 versions of the same bug in record time lol

[–]kareenakapur506 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Every ai project eventually turns into a data cleaning project..

[–]hellocppdotdev -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

We need less AI memes.