So, before you get the wrong impression, I’m 40. Last year I enrolled in a master program in IT to further my career. It is a special online master offered by a university near me and geared towards people who are in fulltime employement. Almost everybody is in their 30s or 40s. You actually need to show your employement contract as proof when you apply at the university.
Last semester I took a project management course. We had to find a partner and simulate a project: Basically write a project plan for an IT project, think about what problems could arise and plan how to solve them, describe what roles we’d need for the team etc. Basically do all the paperwork of a project without actually doing the project itself. My partner wrote EVERYTHING with ChatGPT. I kept having the same discussion with him over and over: Write the damn thing yourself. Don’t trust ChatGPT. In the end, we’ll need citations anyway, so it’s faster to write it yourself and insert the citation than to retroactively figure them out for a chapter ChatGPT wrote. He didn’t listen to me, had barely any citation in his part. I wrote my part myself. I got a good grade, he said he got one, too.
This semester turned out to be even more frustrating. I’m taking a database course. SQL and such. There is again a group project. We get access to a database of a fictional company and have to do certain operations on it. We decided in the group that each member will prepare the code by themselves before we get together, compare our homework and decide, what code to use on the actual database. So far whenever I checked the other group members’ code it was way better than mine. A lot of things were incorporated that the script hadn’t taught us at that point. I felt pretty stupid becauss they were obviously way ahead of me - until we had a videocall. One of the other girls shared her screen and was working in our database. Something didn’t work. What did she do? Open a chatgpt tab and let the “AI” fix the code. She had also written a short python script to help fix some errors in the data and yes, of course that turned out to be written by chatgpt.
It’s so frustrating. For me it’s cheating, but a lot of professors see using ChatGPT as using the latest tools at our disposal. I would love to honestly learn how to do these things myself, but the majority of my classmates seem to see that differently.
I hate it too… My boss kept trying to get me to use AI more (I am a senior system admin/network admin) in a very small shop. Fucking guy, he retired at the beginning of the year and I have had to spend the last 6 months cleaning up the shitty things he did with AI. His scripts are full of problems he didn’t know how to fix because AI made it so complicated for him. Like MY MAN if you can’t fucking read a powershell script… DON’T FUCKING USE IT TO OPTIMIZE A PRODUCTION DATABASE…
I fucking hate AI and if it was forced on me, I’d fucking quit and go push a broom and clean toilets until I retired.
Please don’t hide these facts from the people in charge. They do not deserve a resistance free pass with this Ai slop.
Fucking tell them it’s incompetent. Fucking tell them it’s making shit up.
Make their lives hell if they are being fucking rapey and forcing their shit onto you.
Everyone fucking stop bending over to these chucklefucks.
They make that impossible. they track surveys of how much ai helps - but the lowest grade possible is 0-5% improvement. No way to mark that it cost me time vs writting code by hand. If you can’t measure it you can’t improve it - and they are not allowing measures
How do we tell them it just doesn’t work?? They will tell you to keep prompting so it will learn and it will really help you! Like no it fucking wont. Use a non SEO search engine to actually find shit on the internet like we did 15 years ago instead of the shit normies use and complain they can’t find anything because techbros gutted search to force us to use their shitty ai.
He tested his script on the staging database first, right? Do the vibe coders at least agree on that part or have they all completely lost their minds?
Which part of “very small shop” did you miss? Of course that they only had production happening. I’d be incredibly surprised if they even had a dev environment.