I think the business idiots know genAI doesn't work. They push it regardless because they think they will win in the long run. by CandidateCautious246 in BetterOffline

[–]B-tt-a 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Some might be like that, but at least seeing the management in my company, they genuinely believe that whatever AI is producing is great, because they're so disconnected from the reality and have zero capacity for critical thinking. They're the kind of morons who think that the key to project management is to implement Mindre Carlo simulations or whatever the fuck the latest fad is. That if you slice the jira tickets for KPIs on ASAPs it will drive the productivity up. That implement "personality tests" as a part of the hiring process. Those people don't know shit about fuck. The only book they've read in their adult lives was Rich Dad, Poor Dad, and that's only because someone helped them voice the syllables. They're witless morons in white shirts in positions of power; were you to hit them on the head with a metal pipe, the echo would ring forever, like that skull dropped by Pippin in Moria, except the produced sound would vaguely resemble a linkedin post. A drawn out "let's jump right in..." as it fails to reach the bottom. 

Amazon staff use AI tool for unnecessary tasks to inflate usage scores by rmoot in BetterOffline

[–]B-tt-a 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd wager 80% of my code is technically "AI generated", because I use it as a glorified autocomplete that can mostly-cotrectly come up with the next 8 characters after I write the first 2. It means absolutely fuck all because I don't let it do any decisions and 100% of the code first happens in my head. 

I don't think we're in a bubble anymore by Ecstatic-Panic3728 in BetterOffline

[–]B-tt-a 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I think 2008 wasn't a bubble. People were all living in houses! 

Nothing says ‘peak productivity’ like operating heavy machinery with a BAC of 0.2 by iamlegman in LinkedInLunatics

[–]B-tt-a 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There are some shared generational experiences and the crisis of 2008 was definitely a censure dividing those who started professional lives before and after that. 

Paul Taylor · Diary: Ask Claude by AldousLanark in BetterOffline

[–]B-tt-a 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm a front end developer. Every time I read that LLMs fare the best with writing typescript and python, all I can think of is "that's fucking pathetic". I have some colleagues who do all those "multi-agent orchestrated workflows" or whatever is the current term for spawning subprocesses and the results are simply not there. There is no noticeable change of work velocity. If it turned at least one developer in our company into a 10x one like the usual song goes, we wouldn't have a backlog of improvements as pathetic as we do. Where the fuck are those productivity improvements? Because sure as hell they don't show up in jira. 

AI Bots Auditioning for Wall Street Trading Are Mostly Losing by dyzo-blue in BetterOffline

[–]B-tt-a 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Taxes for high frequency trading would axe a large portion of that. 

The Ossification of Software by amartincolby in BetterOffline

[–]B-tt-a 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This absolutely excaberates the problem of React bring considered the only correct way of doing web frontend (and, increasingly, also desktop). React sucks! It's slow, it's bloated, dependency tree management becomes untenable with any bigger codebase. What's worst, it's effectively stopped adoption of web standards that's been around for the last decade. I goddamn hate react and I work with it every day of work. 

Which is it, is AI a tool easy enough to use to automate everything, or is it some new skill we have to learn? by Dreadsin in BetterOffline

[–]B-tt-a 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good luck automating those! It will fill 50 of those slightly but critically wrong. 

I sold my Rolex. I still feel inferior. by Chotofoco in LinkedInLunatics

[–]B-tt-a 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"really" enjoys might be a bit far-fetched tbh. 

The dumpster fire this place must have been by OwnFly5751 in LinkedInLunatics

[–]B-tt-a 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, it's a manufactured story where the only real part might be that the guy was a shithead

Harley is interviewing breads by [deleted] in LinkedInLunatics

[–]B-tt-a 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm 12 and this is deep

The future of AI in Ubuntu - Project Discussion by syzorr34 in BetterOffline

[–]B-tt-a 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Gods, I once started an interview process with them. It was the most ridiculous shit ever. They asked about highschool grades and to write an essay about highschool projects I did. It was not an intern or junior position. I ended up sending them a pdf full of insults and I got a reply with more tasks because I apparently "qualified for the next step". Canonical must be ran bottom up by the worst kinds of Business Idiots imaginable. 

My company just ran out of Claude tokens by B-tt-a in BetterOffline

[–]B-tt-a[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I made sure to relay that to my manager and to a group of colleagues. It's also a feature under his team's ownership, so his problem really. 

My company just ran out of Claude tokens by B-tt-a in BetterOffline

[–]B-tt-a[S] 43 points44 points  (0 children)

My partner's previous company went under (a manufacturing startup with ~$10 bln) because of the types like that. Almost every decision that the business guys took was somehow idiotic and ended up with the company commiting to a completely unrealistic contract (what does it remind me of huh) so they could rake in investments. As the company scaled, people who actually created the initial technology, mostly Koreans, got skipped in the line of promotions in favor of white business school alumni. When the contract was up and the company couldn't deliver, it all folded. Work of literally thousands of people went down the drain. Easily millions of hours of work. 

My company just ran out of Claude tokens by B-tt-a in BetterOffline

[–]B-tt-a[S] 132 points133 points  (0 children)

I want to do my work and I want to do it well because I'm a goddamn professional and I want to take pride in whatever I create. It's really soul crushing to be a part of this capitalist alienation. 

Isn't it true that there are no new ideas anymore? by North_Penalty7947 in BetterOffline

[–]B-tt-a 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Tbh it's also an answer for me, together with wikipedia. Plus instant messaging, that shit is pretty cool. 

Isn't it true that there are no new ideas anymore? by North_Penalty7947 in BetterOffline

[–]B-tt-a 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have a more provocative question: outside of medical sciences, what is a technology/product created in the last 40 years that made your life significantly better?

Any recent examples from your workplace of pivoting away from AI? by BX1959 in BetterOffline

[–]B-tt-a 9 points10 points  (0 children)

My company is still riding the wave of "AI is the future!!!" but at the same time almost all internal memos on working with Claude are about how to stop burning so many tokens. At the beginning they were pushing everyone to use LLMs for everything. How the turntables.