One of the rare comments here that is not acid spewing rage against AI. I too went from "copying a few lines to save some time" and having to recheck everything to several hundred lines working out of the box.

[–] TurdBurgler@sh.itjust.works -3 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

I get it. I was a huge skeptic 2 years ago, and I think that's part of the reason my company asked me to join our emerging AI team as an Individual Contributor. I didn't understand why I'd want a shitty junior dev doing a bad job... but the tools, the methodology, the gains.. they all started to get better.

I'm now leading that team, and we're not only doing accelerated development, we're building products with AI that have received positive feedback from our internal customers, with a launch of our first external AI product going live in Q1.

[–] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 5 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

What are your plans when these AI companies collapse, or start charging the actual costs of these services?

Because right now, you're paying just a tiny fraction of what it costs to run these services. And these AI companies are burning billions to try to find a way to make this all profitable.

[–] TurdBurgler@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

These tools are mostly determistic applications following the same methodology we've used for years in the industry. The development cycle has been accelerated. We are decoupled from specific LLM providers by using LiteLLM, prompt management, and abstractions in our application.

Losing a hosted LLM provider means we prox6 litellm to something out without changing contracts with our applications.

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world -2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

What are your plans when the Internet stops existing or is made illegal (same result)? Or when....

They are not going away. LLMs are already ubiquitous, there is not only one company.

[–] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Ok, so you're completely delusional.

The current business model is unsustainable. For LLMs to be profitable, they will have to become many times more expensive.

[–] TurdBurgler@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 59 minutes ago)

What are you even trying to say? You have no idea what these products are, but you think they are going to fail?

Our company does market research and test pilots with customers, we aren't just devs operating in a bubble pushing AI.

We are listening and responding to customer needs and investing in areas that drive revenue using this technology sparingly.

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

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[–] Trail@lemmy.world 0 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Get back to us when you actually launch and maintain a product for a few months then. Because you don't have anything in production then.

[–] TurdBurgler@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 58 minutes ago)

We use a layered architecture following best practices and have guardrails, observability and evaluations of the AI processes. We have pilot programs and internal SMEs doing thorough testing before launch. It's modeled after the internal programs we've had success with.

We are doing this very responsibly, and deliver a product our customers are asking for, with the tools to help calibrate minor things based on analytics.

We take data governance and security compliance seriously.