u/Greendetour

Anyone else seeing or being interviewed where as a sysadmin/IT manager they also want you to be a full on AI developer—not just vibe coding, but building your own AI server using LLMs and such? I’ve been doing a little job hunting lately and I now see this as a “must have”. It kind of reminds me of the late 90s/early 00s where full on database engineering (like Oracle) was being lumped into the daily systems and network responsibilities before companies realized it was its own department or person for complex/large environments. My most recent experience was a job wanting me to own all help desk, servers, apps, cloud infrastructure and network, as well as full internal AI development to automate 40-60% of everyone’s job, along with data analytics. I’m hoping this isn’t the future requirement.

We did some training and testing with about five "power"-users for Copilot in Business Central. After about two months of testing, they didn't find anything about Copilot that was useful for us, as a company. They had a list of ideas beforehand, but none of them really panned out or worked consistently, or saved them any time.

Perhaps it's just our business processes, but has anyone had any "ah-ha!" great usage of it? Microsoft reps even got on a call with us and used their sample environment and such, but it was more of a sales pitch and nothing what they showed was really relevant to our business process and model. We even searched online for top use cases, and every example given was already done through Power Automate.