This was genuinely cathartic to read, and I feel like the exact same shit is happening in every single office throughout the whole industry.

Where I work, management and marketing are absolutely obsessed with AI clippy the chat bot, along with the whole “make sure to use AI twice per day!” mantra too. Most of the actual workers despise it.

“Hey we spent untold sums on money on an enterprise AI license (even though nobody that does actual work wanted it or asked for it). Now figure out what to do with it and invent a use case otherwise your job is at risk.”

But it’s more than just a nuisance. It’s actively harmful and destructive. Management is forcing the devs to re-code perfectly functional tools that we have relied on for years to do our jobs and replace them with shitty AI versions, and are breaking fucking everything in the process. The shit they come up with are like cartoon versions of what used to be very functional, stable, and useful pieces of software. Almost all the features are broken, so much shit is missing, everything is SLOW AS FUCK, there is no consistency, customers and employees alike are complaining on a daily basis.

Problem is, neither the devs nor the managers rely on those tools, just the workers and clients, so we’re having to beg and plead and scream for them to stop, but they are so arrogant and convinced that AI can do no wrong that they just won’t listen and keep on breaking shit.

At some point the notion of “Do we provide a good product/service?” got replaced with “Is X% of our code generated by AI?”

It’s maddening. I swear to god this is a mass-psychosis event and I just want the nightmare to be over.