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In $COMPANY, for the mid-yearly review, the employees were asked whether their AI usage was 1/ efficient, 2/ adoptive (integrated in the way they work) or 3/ transformative.

Saying “never used it” or “I tried and it was useless” was literally not possible.

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You'd have to be a pretty stubborn software engineer to not find AI useful for anything at this point, unless they're making you use Github Copilot or something far behind the frontier. You don't have repetitive tests to write? You never need to write a script to run something?

And you'd have to be a pretty pig-headed exec to assume that the only experience an employee could possibly have with LLMs is positive.

I don’t use AI for ethical reasons. I don’t want to support companies that are destroying the planet and inflating hardware prices.

Currently the only thing I personally find LLMs useful for are code reviews.