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"Have any of you realized how much money we spent on this?!"

I had an interesting conversation today with an acquaintance. He has sent his resumé to dozens of companies now. Most of them, but not all, corporate blobs.

He wondered for a while just why the hell no one is even reaching out (he's definitely qualified for most of the positions). He then came to the idea to ask a particular commercial Artificial Stupidity software to parse it. Most of those companies use that software, or at least that's what the vendor says on its website. Turns out, that PoS software gets it all wrong. As in: everything. Positions and companies get mixed up, dates aren't correctly registered, the job descriptions it claims to have understood only remotely match what he wrote. Read: things even the most junior programmer with two weeks of experience would get right.

And it is getting used pretty much by every big firm out there.

Oh and BTW: There is ONE correct answer to the phrase 'using AI is no longer optional' : Fuck you.

Its to use the employees to train AI to replace them and they know it.

They must really want their workforce to be less efficient while dramatically lowering quality and security across the board.

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Apparently no longer optional for their customers either, based on how hard they are pushing it in Office 365, sorry Microsoft 365, no sorry Microsoft 365 Copilot.

The latest change of dumping you into a Copilot chat immediately on login and hiding all the actually useful stuff is just desperation incarnate.

This is ridiculous. Have people seen the recent AI code review from Audacity?? This whole AI bubble needs to burst already.

Same at my company. The frustrating part is they want us to use coding assistance, which is fine, but I really don't code that much. I spend most of my time talking to other teams and vendors, reading docs, filing tickets, and trying to assign tasks to Jr devs. For AI to help me with that I need to either type all of my thoughts into the LLM which isn't efficient at all or I need it to integrate with systems I'm not allowed to integrate with because there are SLOs that need to be maintained (i.e. can't hammer the API and make others experience worse).

So it's pretty much the same as it's always been. Instead of making a gallon of lemonade out of one lemon I need to use this "new lemonade machine" to start a multinational lemonade business.

How very corporate of them: people don't want to do something? Screw finding out why, let's make it mandatory and poof, problem solved!

Using AI isn't optional? How about you review me on the results I produce instead of the tools I use to produce them?

At your next job interview ask them if they are results driven or methodology driven. "If I were to take twice as long to do something by using a poorly designed tool will I be rewarded or punished?"

Malicious compliance and use it solely for internal emails.

Yuuuup this is my company too. They’re monitoring our GH Copilot /Cursor usage and they’re going to apply to our performance reviews

While true; do curl http://copilot/?query=what+is+the+time; sleep 10; done

Bet the AI can’t see through this.

As a heavy AI user on a daily basis...Copilot is hands down one of, if not the worst, in existence.

This will not end well for them.

Corporate monopoly with overpriced products doing corporate shit

Fine do whatever you want to your shit company stop forcing me to use copilot on everything. This is worse than the failed clippy

It's called dog-slopping

Start using ai to write all your mails and communication with managers. Turn it to LinkedIn max

At my company too but it's owned by yet another cancerous private equity firm so it was expected.

I wonder, did they have to do this when search engines became a thing 🤔

The AI said that trying to reason with you is a waste of precious tokens.

Being judged by a fancy magic 8 ball, the future keeps getting better and better.

Good luck with that Microsoft

Windows is already garbage when humans are codeding it.