u/a_slay_nub

So Tfiber just installed in our area starting last year. We got set up 3 months ago and we have had 15 outages since we got them. Most of them last several hours to all day. We have had 6 outages in the past 9 days. Most of them being all day. I understand that new lines can have some issues, but this is truly insane. I called yesterday and got their retention team to "say" that they could get me a backup 5G gateway for when this happened and they said they'd send me an email and then nothing. I don't want to go back to Spectrum but this is impressively bad. Others have said that it gets better over time but if anything it's gotten worse. Like I said, we've gotten 6 in the past 9 days.

I work from home, and I can get by by using a hotspot from my phone, but that's not ideal, and I'm kind of running out of data on it.

Dayton, OH area

I know it's easy to hate AI, and there are obviously a lot of cases where it's hilariously bad. But some of my coworkers write code that just isn't good. I'm not talking about a bad function or broken test cases; they used a reranker like an embedding model, they had zero train-test separation, as well as other things that an LLM would have caught instantly.

I also do code reviews where I literally just copy-paste their diff into our chatbot, and it catches all kinds of things. One I had recently would have dumped a 10GB+ payload every time the user logged in while in a prod environment. Other people just seem completely helpless, like they won't even look at an error log, much less copy it into a chatbot. It literally says right there, x service is down.

We're literally an AI team, deploying internal LLMs and AI-adjacent tools for the rest of the company. We should be the first ones to try things out. It doesn't mean that we should go in blindly; I like to be the first person to call out some of the AI claims and exercise caution when using some of these tools. I only recently started using agentic coding, which, while fun, I'm not sure if it's actually saving me any time. If anything, it's making me perpetually stressed.

Idk, I just don't get it. This doesn't even have to be about AI; it's about caring about your work. All of these things could have been easily caught with a little effort. But if you're going to be lazy, AI is not a bad tool to be lazy with. Perhaps I should be thankful; if they were using AI more, they'd be producing a lot more slop that would fall on my plate.