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by bigstrat2003
22 days ago
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> Employees are hesitant to learn new tools that are very different from what they are used to... That simply isn't true for technical employees (like software devs). They are so hungry to get stuff done that you have to hold them back from adopting new tools which they think can make them work more effectively. Tech guys will set up entire shadow IT departments just to get around corporate restrictions that are limiting their productivity. No, if software devs are not using LLMs for programming, that is proof that the tool isn't actually useful for them. It doesn't mean "they need to be forced to use it", because they didn't need to be forced to use any of the tools which came before it. |
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> [Technical employees] are so hungry to get stuff done that you have to hold them back from adopting new tools
Technical employees are also hesitant to waste time learning new tools if their existing tools do the job. Maybe juniors are more hungry to spend time on new tools that might not pay off. But seniors aren't burning time trying out the new flavor-of-the-week tool.
> if software devs are not using LLMs for programming, that is proof that the tool isn't actually useful for them
No. It's evidence that they perceive that the tool won't be useful to them, or don't think learning it will be worth the effort expended, or that they won't enjoy using it. These are different things than the tool being useful or not.