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Thrust into an AI role (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 days ago by saplyng@lemmy.world to c/programming@programming.dev
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Maybe some devs here can help me, I was recently promoted to "head of AI" at my work despite being very outwardly ambivalent towards it. So I'm struggling to figure out what would actually create value instead of just being an expensive waste of time but still satisfy the higher ups AI lust.

My first idea that I thought would actually be useful was just setting up the architecture for an actual analytics database for us and then let them explore it with metabase (then letting them use Claude for their wow factor of exploring it with AI or whatever).

But now I'm somewhat at a loss, so any insight you all have would be really helpful!

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[–] saplyng@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

We're honestly already running on a dev deficit, so for the foreseeable future I don't think they're in any danger. Interestingly, management seemed wary of vibe coding and letting the ai write large swaths of code used in production, which I'd say is a generally safe stance considering the obvious stability issues that have become frequent lately. As for the devs themselves, they're seemingly not interested in really playing with the ai to begin with, but I somewhat expected that as I have different issues with them like "please update your code to GitHub the main branch hasn't been updated in months" and "don't commit pem keys to git"