There's a joke in one of Ken MacLeod's novels where a character is flipping through Trotsky's 1938 _Transitional Program_, reads the line "Already new inventions and improvements fail to raise the level of material wealth." and thinks to themselves (this is from memory) "ah, they'd already invented computers back then."
Anyway, here's some engineering nightmare fuel:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/1j7aqsx/ai_coding_mandates_at_work/
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"Management bought Cursor pro for everyone and said that they expect to see a return on that investment."
(It's $20/month, BTW...)
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"One of our OKRs is basically "Use AI more" and one of the ways they're measuring that is Copilot suggestion acceptance %."
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"At our monthly engineering all hands, they give us a report on our org’s usage of Copilot (which has slowly been increasing) and tell us that we need to be using it more. Then a few slides later we see that our sev incidents are also increasing."
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"Everyone got copilot licenses with a few strings attached:
- A mandate that all developers should deliver 50% more story points per sprint, along with a public tracking spreadsheet that showed the per-sprint story points completed for every individual developer in the company.
- A mandate for us managers to randomly spot-check PRs for devs to explain how AI was used to complete the PR. We were told to reject the PRs if they did not explain it."
#AI