u/michaeldoesdata

So I have sort of a dumb problem where I have AI at work, but it is really dumb and behind a firewall and I can't play with it in my IDE/even a Claude code or codex terminal.

I see people at least claiming that they've set up all these AI workflows to do most of their coding, and maybe it's my wanting to understand the whole system, but I just find the concept of the AI doing the bulk of the work to be a frustrating experience.

I can see the value of the AI building complex parts that would be a lot of busy work, but the entire project orchestration with where the technology stands feels extremely unreliable right now.

Maybe working with it as sort of a super charged function builder/helper? So far, my best use of AI has come with working at work (ironically) where the chat functionality I'm stuck with forces me to use the AI sort of as a partner to ask questions, but I feel like this is limiting what is actually possible.

I saw this suggested to me and actually laughed out loud at how weirdly and beautifully specific this group is.

Is this just a place for people with ADHD who also love coding? This actually exists?

Like most, my company is really crazed on AI and using it for our analytics team. The problem is that, honestly, it is shockingly hard to find a good use case for it.

Now, hear me out: I freaking love AI and it's one of the coolest things under the sun in the world of tech. But, the problem I keep como across is that I feel for a world where precision really, really matters, the models are both unreliable in terms of output due to being probabilistic, and past that the models themselves (openAI, Anthropic, etc.) are extremely unreliable in terms of quality even over a few months. We've all seen the dips in performance between the major AI models.

I can find plenty of smaller uses for them, like faster code review, helping to prototype things, writing small queries for analysts, etc.

The problem comes when we talk about what leadership *really* wants: AI in production. Most of the use cases they want are almost all handled better by deterministic code to the point I feel that I'm trying to find a way to squeeze in an AI component to make them happy, or that the AI component is ultimately going to be quite small and subject to far more human review than they like.

So far, my best ideas have been more so of like sort of an "AI weatherman" that helps users understand the data they're looking at by answering basic questions on top of a very controlled dataset and dashboard, but alas, this is boring to leadership. They want it "scanning the DB to find patterns and automate workflows" and the more I work with the tech, the more this feels like the wrong direction. They want 99.99% data accuracy (lol) but also want AI to do a lot of work and this just isn't working.

The conclusion I keep coming to is that with AI in analytics, it keeps winding up being far smaller than expected and that the AI does very little work and the deterministic code does the bulk of the lifting and there is a massive amount of engineering that needs to happen first to even make this possible, especially considering the state of the incoming data and current DB structure which wasn't designed for this.

Has anyone else figured out anything useful?

I was thinking about which autistic traits NTs seem to make fun of the most over my life, and it's ultimately boiled down to two things:

- Any sign of frustration or intensity is seen as "argumentative and hostile" or "rude and mean."

- Any sign of excitement is made fun of as childish.

So basically we can't be excited over things or frustrated? I will never understand this. Ever since I was little I would get made fun of for daring to show any emotion over being excited about something I cared about, or the idea that being male means you can't enjoy anything with beauty or whimsy.

Why are they so boring? They go their whole lives pretending to not care while they secretly judge you behind whatever fake front they put on when engaging. I swear that they'll even just make up rules as they go.

They'll then turn around and make fun of us for any of this, yet we are supposedly the socially impaired ones.

Found out something fun.

If you're at a hotel and your neighbors:

- Scream late at night (we're talking midnight)

- Smoke weed so your whole room stinks

- Play loud music early in the morning

- More screaming early in the morning

It seems the best the hotel will offer is "we can send security down to take a look" (please, we all know they won't actually do anything) and *we* can have our room changed.

The problem people? Nope, no inconvenience to them. They can be as rude, loud, and disgusting as they want and force everyone else to leave.

Society is so fucking backwards. I don't need you to try and fucking talk me down with your corporate whitewashing, I need action. 🤬

I've had months of burnout and a lot has been related to just ongoing disappointment with work. I work in tech and was really excited for some of our AI work (it's mostly in coding and data automation) but instead of being cool and exciting it's just been a miserable experience with politics taking the floor instead of actually building anything and endless spinning our wheels.

I've been so depressed about it that things I loved like coding just were miserable and no fun to me.

The last weekend I decided to do something and even then it felt like an effort but it worked! I went out and got myself a high end gaming laptop, got myself some AI coding tools and just started a little personality project for my music - I wanted to see if I could make something to take a recording of my piano and turn it into notes I could edit.

Like, it was a freaking insane experience. I felt like a little kid again. It didn't work super well, but my god in 30 minutes I had a little html page that could take a recording and make it into midi and then play it as different instruments.

Now, I'm actually excited to set up my computer. I'm going to make a little "factory" of agents to help me build and test code and I'm actually excited for it instead of dreading it as more work to do.

I am soooo excited to build things again. Burnout was miserable and all it took was finally getting my own space to build things and explore on my own without politics messing up the process.

Time for a whole day of coding and building! I am so excited.

🤖 😁

Anyone have any advice? It's been getting better, but I just feel like my brain has been on half power for a while and it's getting really old.

I've slowed things down, I've given myself more of what I need, I'm doing everything I can to recover including buying a new laptop to play with some tech and special interests, but I'm still tired and while setting it up was fun I just keep getting tired quickly. I am so tired of being tired that I'm tired of being tired of being tired. 🫩

I am so sick of this. It's the freaking worst.

So, basically like I'm expecting this to be a slam dunk for them. Despite obvious signs that clearly gave the plot away, my parents never believed in testing or really much of anything related to autism or ADHD, so I'm finally going to correct that on my own.

I am so excited. I'm sure today is going to be a big nothing, just check-in at the regular doctor for them to send me off somewhere else, but at least it's started.