[dangus]

The article isn’t providing a lot of convincing data that AI improved much of anything, only that it didn’t cause incidents.

I really don’t understand why AI usage is mandatory for roles. Nobody’s doing anything like that for other productivity tools even when they’re proven to be helpful. Hell, a lot of employers can’t be bothered to provide basics like nice keyboards and monitors that exceed 1080p.

The current era of tech has way too many corporate losers.

[jmuguy]

The monitors thing is funny to me because I love using dual monitors at work, and my coworker doesn't, and this forced AI adoption would be like if I forced him to use dual monitors.

[dangus]

I thought of this exact scenario when I made my comment! I'm sure many people benefit from multiple monitors but some probably don't at all.

[CyberMacGyver]

It’s the same trend of executives claiming RTO increases user productivity according to their data but could never show the data.

[th0ma5]

People that don't code think that something can do code 98% correct is surely better, without seeing the hard enforcement of a 2% error without manual intervention. I think all of the jokes about stupid computers and weird behavior of languages when you use them out of spec (famously labeled wat) gave people the wrong impressions about why those problems exist or how they can or cannot be fixed. You'd think they'd be able to transfer that cynicism quicker to models since they are also dumb computer things but apparently they say "hello" and that is tricking them out of that?

[strange_quark]

It's crazy how fast we went from big data and every exec needing some massive dataset with cooked up numbers to justify even the smallest decision, to this, where nothing matters except for ~vibes~. Does AI increase productivity? Does it improve or degrade quality? Who knows, but number must go up.

[jf22]

>Nobody’s doing anything like that for other productivity tools even when they’re proven to be helpful.

Isn't mandating IDE usage a perfectly reasonable and common thing?

It's a productivity tool after all.

[kylereeve]

I've never seen an IDE "mandated", I've seen officially supported development setups where you're on your own if you do anything different. Is that not the standard?

[jf22]

Your job will look pretty funny at you if you want to code everything by hand while everyone else is using VSCode.

[strange_quark]

I've literally never seen this and I've been around for awhile. There's always people with some bespoke vim or emacs setup while everyone else is just using Jetbrains or VSCode or whatever, and nobody cares at all as long as that person is getting their work done.

[jf22]

Still an IDE right?

[gdulli]

I'd never have worked at a place that mandated a specific IDE. Luckily it's something I never encountered, if it's ever done this is the first I'm hearing about it.

[jf22]

But you'd have to use an IDE right?

[gdulli]

No, it never occurred to me that anyone would care. I don't think many of my bosses or teammates could have named my choice of IDE/editor even after working with me for a while. I'm sure I mentioned it occasionally but I don't think anyone would care enough to remember.

I was usually most productive with a text editor as opposed to an IDE but I'd sometimes use an IDE as needed or when I wanted to try something new.

[jmuguy]

But there's other reasons for that - makes support easier, can have same linting setup etc, its not done to increase productivity.

[jf22]

Both of your examples increase productivity.