My company is strongly pushing AI. There are lot of experiments, demos, and effort from decently smart people about integrating it into our workflows. There are some impressive victories that have been made with AI tooling producing some things fast. I am not in denial about this. And the SE department is tracking improved productivity (as measured by # of tickets being done, I guess?)
The problem is I hate AI. I hate every fucking thing about it. Its primary purpose, regardless of what utility is gained, is spam. I think it's obvious how google search results are spam, how spam songs and videos are being produced, etc. But even bad results from AI that have to be discarded, IMO, are spam.
And that isn't even getting into all massive amounts of theft to train the data, or the immense amounts of electricity it takes to do training and inference, as well as run, all this crap. Nor the psychosis being inflicted onto people who emplace their trust into these systems. Nor the fact that these tools are being used to empower authoritarian regimes to track vulnerable populations, both here (in the USA) and abroad. And all this AI shit serves to enrich the worst tech moguls and to displace people like artists and people like myself, a programmer.
I'm literally being told at my job that I should view myself basically as an AI babysitter, and that AI has been unambiguously proven in the industry, so the time for wondering about it, experimenting with it, or opposing it is over. The only fault and flaw is my (i.e. any given SE's) unwillingness to adapt and onboard.
Looking for advice from people who have had to navigate similar crap. Because I feel like I'm at a point where I must adapt or eventually get fired.
The key to 'liking' AI is to turn corporation-brained and stop caring about any sense of quality, customer satisfaction, or even your own satisfaction.
Minimum. Viable. Product.
That's why they love AI. It promises to make it so that you can always BS something out the door in 10 minutes, collect the check, and move on before it breaks. When you have no conception of pride in your product, the money you get paid to sell cheap trash is just as spendable as what you get selling artisanal creations, and if you can BS out something in half the time, you can do it to twice as many customers. Double revenue. And by the time the lawsuits come in, you're supposed to be already working somewhere else. That's the company's problem, not yours, right?
sigh