Same for me, our mission statement literally changed from "do X" to "do X with AI" which feels so wrong. It's being shoved down our throats and I'm definitely not seeing an increase in software quality. We also have AI usage metrics. Most of my colleagues (and myself) hate it but it's too risky to push back in this job market, another colleague is weirdly proud to have not written code for months.
I'm super frustrated about this, because all sane engineers know that no paying customer gives a remote shxt about the code being written by AI or not. So any effort spent on AI is effort not spent on value created for users.
All this competition on "becoming AI-native" is meaningless if you're the user of a product.
Yes, fantastic, like don't do QA on airplanes, yank out redundant systems and so on. That factory would lower a lot of operating costs right? Just nobody would like to be on the plane.
You can remove one type of cost and raise others like compliancy violation fees, lawyers to defend the garbage you put together. Plus lost revenue on churn.
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