Have you had a workshop, memo or other pressure to use AI at your work or school?
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Have you had a workshop, memo or other pressure to use AI at your work or school?
I'm defining "pressure" as either training or other work events designed to get you to engage with AI when you might not have bothered otherwise.
Of course any mandate that you MUST use it would count too.
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Have you had a workshop, memo or other pressure to use AI at your work or school?
I'm defining "pressure" as either training or other work events designed to get you to engage with AI when you might not have bothered otherwise.
Of course any mandate that you MUST use it would count too.
@futurebird Dunno that "mandate" is quite the right word for setting up the system so that every pull request to the codebase gets reviewed by the AI bot, but since it's use is unavoidable that's what I voted.
It's caught some bugs before they're published, and hallucinated many problems which aren't really there.
But all the code we write is being reviewed by robots now, and so the code is written slightly differently to avoid it going on about issues that aren't really there.
People imagine that code is written for the computer to run, but really it's always been written for the programmers to understand. Now it's also written for the ai that has no context or understanding to review.
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Have you had a workshop, memo or other pressure to use AI at your work or school?
I'm defining "pressure" as either training or other work events designed to get you to engage with AI when you might not have bothered otherwise.
Of course any mandate that you MUST use it would count too.
@futurebird
I don't work, but developers at my husband's work have been told they have to use it
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@futurebird
I don't work, but developers at my husband's work have been told they have to use itThis is so bizarre to me.
I remember in the early days of the internet if you found out a company had a high speed connection at the office or if they gave you a nice laptop you might want to go work there more.
I somehow don't think young people are feeling the same way about companies who buy AI services for everyone.
Maybe I'm just old. But ... I don't think so.
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This is so bizarre to me.
I remember in the early days of the internet if you found out a company had a high speed connection at the office or if they gave you a nice laptop you might want to go work there more.
I somehow don't think young people are feeling the same way about companies who buy AI services for everyone.
Maybe I'm just old. But ... I don't think so.
I wrote a thing about it: https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2025/09/25/hyperrealist-datacenters-and-potemkin-mcribs/
...but the short version is, it's got nothing to do with human needs anymore.
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I wrote a thing about it: https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2025/09/25/hyperrealist-datacenters-and-potemkin-mcribs/
...but the short version is, it's got nothing to do with human needs anymore.
@mhoye @3TomatoesShort
in reference to your essay (which I liked) Potemkin villages aren’t all apocryphal. We had them in the South Bronx in the 80s. Neglectful landlords were persuaded to paint the brick walls that faced the freeways with fake curtains and windows to disguise the extremity of the disinvestment and population loss the Bronx was suffering at that moment. Of course now we are more inclined to paint them to seem abandoned to slow the building boom. -
@mhoye @3TomatoesShort
in reference to your essay (which I liked) Potemkin villages aren’t all apocryphal. We had them in the South Bronx in the 80s. Neglectful landlords were persuaded to paint the brick walls that faced the freeways with fake curtains and windows to disguise the extremity of the disinvestment and population loss the Bronx was suffering at that moment. Of course now we are more inclined to paint them to seem abandoned to slow the building boom.@futurebird @3TomatoesShort Reminds me of the (also maybe apocryphal maybe not) story about a guy in I think Oakland who'd fire off a starter pistol outside a few times a week just to keep the rent down.
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@futurebird @3TomatoesShort Reminds me of the (also maybe apocryphal maybe not) story about a guy in I think Oakland who'd fire off a starter pistol outside a few times a week just to keep the rent down.
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Have you had a workshop, memo or other pressure to use AI at your work or school?
I'm defining "pressure" as either training or other work events designed to get you to engage with AI when you might not have bothered otherwise.
Of course any mandate that you MUST use it would count too.
At my former employer there was a ban on all unauthorized AI/bots. Government so they took the risk to clients' PII seriously.
