I’m in IT at an upper level and know painfully well what “AI” really is and that it’s not the disruptor people think it will be. However I feel like I can’t post it anywhere without being judged about it as almost every exec I know has bought into it hook, line and sinker. Even other people I talk to about the issues and limitations look at me like I’m completely weird “you’re in IT and you don’t embrace AI? wtf is wrong with you?”
So what do you all do? I don’t want to make things career limiting but I feel like I’m screaming in the dark seeing where things will really go. It reminds me a lot of the move to cloud and everyone going all in on it without knowing the real ramifications.
I’m skeptical about a lot of things about it in general, but I found it really helpful in one particular scenario: I’m learning a new framework and I type out something I think is right, but is not, I ask it why it’s not working and how to fix it. It pulls all the relevant files and errors from the IDE and tells me something. Sometimes I have to remind it to use a different version of the framework as it has a different approach slightly, but overall it helped me find and figure out quite a lot of issues. But my codebase is pretty small still, I don’t use it to engineer big changes.
I mean, has it’s uses for sure, but the scope in which people are deploying these cookiecutter generalist LLMs and expecting bloody miracles is unrealistic. Plus, I like my privacy, AI’s are kind of an antithesis of that. Environmental cost is way too high as well.
It’s a tool, and it can be used successfully, but it’s so inefficient that I can’t justify it personally.
i kinda feel like you could do better with the basics of good documentation, good tutorials, and good training. is AI really helping in the long run?