HACKER Q&A
📣 conqrr

How much AI slop do you deal with at work?


Struggling at work with AI mandates. There is heavy top down push to use AI, this is at one of the large Tech companies in the US. This has me quite depressed. Everyone sends slop for reviews and there is an expectation of 2-3x efficiency even after losing a lot of people. This has caused a lot of bugs and issues. I'm sure a lot of places have the same issue and we have accepted this as a new normal.

But are there places US or ROW that are more sane and let you or the team decide what tool to use? How do I find them? Does going lower in the stack help?

  👤 threecheese Accepted Answer ✓
It reminds me so much of the Underpants Gnomes (from South Park):

1. Use AI 2. 3. Profit!

👤 i7l
It's pretty common unfortunately. Debunking AI-generated nonsense takes an order of magnitude more effort, so you really have three choices: 1. Accept that you'll spend most of your days finding issues that will get you labelled an AI critic, which means you'll be last in line for promotions, regardless of your contributions. 2. Ignore your integrity: fight slop with more slop. It's mostly what managers in such places are doing anyway. 3. Leave.

The third option is risky because a lot of places are copying the AI mantras from everyone else. Large companies do tend to have less original thinking at the top, so expect more parroting from execs.