I stopped using AI completely but it also feels like 80% of startups now are building AI focused products. It's a huge red flag for me now that the company is just riding a trend instead of building a well thought out product. Maybe that's how startups always were but it feels so nakedly cynical now.
I'm also not a fan of how productivity expectations seem to getting worse because the people in the business side read that this makes programmers 150% more productive. They probably do write more code but if the shelf life of that code is worse and there's less knowledge in the organization about that code because the engineer was leaning on a stochastic tool, how much more are you gonna spend maintaining and rewriting that software? Just seems like we're all super excited to make crappier software faster.
I briefly worked for an “AI” company that was literally just a wrapper over Anthropic’s API. They also claimed to be HIPAA compliant despite sending 100% of their user data to these 3rd parties…
I'm also not a fan of how productivity expectations seem to getting worse because the people in the business side read that this makes programmers 150% more productive. They probably do write more code but if the shelf life of that code is worse and there's less knowledge in the organization about that code because the engineer was leaning on a stochastic tool, how much more are you gonna spend maintaining and rewriting that software? Just seems like we're all super excited to make crappier software faster.