u/DopeyDonkeyUser

What is AI doing in my personal life?

For background, I work at a top ai neo cloud... and everyone vibe codes so much that no one understands the software they are writing. The entire code base is pretty much dark.

Further people building on our platform also dont know what they are building because they have the same perf metrics to hit that we do as well. If you think humans are also making arch decisions, more and more of that is just being offloaded (doesnt mean its good arch decisions.).

The grand real outcome of all this is that we prompt these ais to hit metrics, that not even sr leadership has a clue what people are building. They told us these metrics dont measure customer success.

So then the question, is for what? Why are we producing any of this stuff if no one is communicating or consuming what we produce? Mostly its because theres too many beuocratic process that are so complicated, its impossible for people to follow. It all has to be automated. Its just a check list of stuff, and really just another bs job.

What do I actually consume and spend most of my time and money on? Not online... I spend it on biking, hiking, friends in person etc... stuff where tech was good enough 100 years ago. Yes theres lots of conveniences available now do to automation, but then why are we still working 60 hour weeks and not enjoying the fruits of automation? Why are we not working a 3 day work week and why is it so hard to retire now?

AI wouod be grear if it were actualky beneficial, but its not being used in a way to make our lives better. So ya, Im not really certain how ai is really improving anything in my personal life.

What is AI doing in my personal life?

For background, I work at a top ai neo cloud... and everyone vibe codes so much that no one understands the software they are writing. The entire code base is pretty much dark.

Further people building on our platform also dont know what they are building because they have the same perf metrics to hit that we do as well. If you think humans are also making arch decisions, more and more of that is just being offloaded (doesnt mean its good arch decisions.).

The grand real outcome of all this is that we prompt these ais to hit metrics, that not even sr leadership has a clue what people are building. They told us these metrics dont measure customer success.

So then the question, is for what? Why are we producing any of this stuff if no one is communicating or consuming what we produce? Mostly its because theres too many beuocratic process that are so complicated, its impossible for people to follow. It all has to be automated. Its just a check list of stuff, and really just another bs job.

What do I actually consume and spend most of my time and money on? Not online... I spend it on biking, hiking, friends in person etc... stuff where tech was good enough 100 years ago. Yes theres lots of conveniences available now do to automation, but then why are we still working 60 hour weeks and not enjoying the fruits of automation? Why are we not working a 3 day work week and why is it so hard to retire now?

AI wouod be grear if it were actualky beneficial, but its not being used in a way to make our lives better. So ya, Im not really certain how ai is really improving anything in my personal life.

I work at an AI datacenter company and one of the largest developers of the torch ecosystem. At first it seemed like the company was on a good trajectory, seemed like we made plenty of money and had great engineering.

As we get closer to ipo, we are now doing perf reviews where we are being graded on our ai usage, and volume of prs. I asked the director of the company why dont we get graded on customer success... our customers have complained that our interface is so busy and confusing that they need AI to even use our software. The response from the director was as engineers our output was pr's and commits, and the metric is not supposed to grade business success. Yet we are expected to be designers, product managers and entrepeneurs within the company?

So now, Ive stopped reading code altogether and have cursor read my slack and make all the prs it can. My prs have increased 3x... 10 prs a week which is what they want with thousands of changes each pr... but Im getting docked if I dont do it.

No one reviews the code anymore because theyre being graded on the same metrics. Personally, Ive manually wrote and went through the software by hand, reducing a 3k pr from cursor to 300 lines only. But I get dinged for sue dillegence.

I still develop software by hand outside of work because I enjoy it,... but these companies dont give a shit about quality and only about some narrative for when we ipo and how 90% of the code is ai generated.

This industry sucks.