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pmontratoday at 6:25 AM1 replyview on HN

Well, it takes time to assess and adapt, and large organizations need more time than smaller ones. We will see.

In my experience the limiting factor is doing the right choices. I've got a costumer with the usual backlog of features. There are some very important issues in the backlog that stay in the backlog and are never picked for a sprint. We're doing small bug fixes, but the big ones. We're doing new features that are in part useless because of the outstanding bugs that prevent customers from fully using them. AI can make us code faster but nobody is using it to sort issues for importance.


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exodusttoday at 6:36 AM

> nobody is using it to sort issues for importance

True, and I'd add the reminder that AI doesn't care. When it makes mistakes it pretends to be sorry.

Simulated emotion is dangerous IMHO, it can lead to undeserved trust. I always tell AI to never say my name, and never use exclamation points or simulated emotion. "Be the cold imperfect calculator that you are."

When it was giving me complements for noticing things it failed to, I had to put a stop to that. Very dangerous. When business decisions or important technical decisions are made by an entity that literally is incapable of caring, but instead pretends to like a sociopath, that's when trouble brews.