I work at a giant tech company. I'm in the upper levels (the CTO is my bosses boss).
I think our C-suite has truly lost its mind around AI. Last year I thought their delusions were just optics for the market. I thought they were hedging bets, playing the short game for their RSUs, and I forgave any low IQ moments and off key messages as being due to fear, caution, or divided attention from allowing AI grifters to infect their circle and feed them bad lines
But Iately I've been seeing stuff that's so catastrophically stupid, and all in, that I think they really have lost their minds.
I know how this works in big co systems of people. Their stupidity is amplified one thousandfold to lower levels like a game of crack the whip. I'm used to them firing leagues of people for no reason other than deciding contractors are good this month, no wait, now they are bad. And lately they've been so incredibly and almost unbelievably stupid. It will take a year for this to trickle down from the top to everyone, but this whole company has already started recentering and orbiting a new sun. This new sun has nothing to do with making money, making things people want to buy, or reality. Our whole center of gravity is moving to internal optics and politics around AI. I can already see pathological low skill people from long ago enshittified companies starting to win this new game.
AI is not going to kill this company. This company will kill itself because it has lost it's mind thinking it needs to be "AI-native."
Is this everywhere, or can I go somewhere that's still smart? Is this a temporary cycle, are people just freaking out because of WWIII?
I'm cleaning up AI slop but have been tasked with using more AI to do it faster and deliver more features. Doesn't matter to me. I'm getting paid 🤷 It'll be somebody else's problem soon enough, if the company survives.
My eye will be on the job market soon and I do wonder what it will be like. It seems like AI is eroding the minds of many.
It’s terrible, every single job posting is requiring using AI. That’s how you can tell it’s all a house of cards. Imagine reading a job post that said you’d be required to use JetBrains IDEs, you’d be thinking, “what the hell, why is this in a job post??”
Some teams have plugins and workflows around particular IDEs. Though I don't think any team has a workflow around AI that can't be done with human intelligence