All kinds of things! I work with AI every day to do various kinds of work. Coding. Research. Brainstorming. I write up notes nearly every day and then I post a summary of each week on Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/cw/aiconfessions

One of the projects that features in these notes is the attempt to build a programming language using AI. https://github.com/xvandervort/graphoid

Since I left my last job, I do a lot of writing. I also have a couple substacks. One is a humorous weekly look at science and tech (https://technoscreed.substack.com/ ) and the other is a monthly exploration of history (https://historyroad.substack.com/)

Developing a graph-based programming language called Graphoid. The original concept was to target AI-related programming. Probably not ready for that yet!

Repo: https://github.com/xvandervort/graphoid

Claude Code is doing the majority of the coding, with close supervision from me. I write notes while I'm working on it. Notes are here: https://www.patreon.com/cw/aiconfessions

I'm using Claude AI to build an experimental programming language I call Graphoid. (Built for dealing with graphs). It's early days and I don't know how worthwhile it is but I'm having fun.

repo: https://github.com/xvandervort/graphoid lab notes: https://www.patreon.com/cw/aiconfessions

Bingo! You found the prize! Putting tech that is prone to hallucination in charge of anything that has serious consequences when it's wrong is a terrible idea. You do not want hallucinated payments or receipts, or legal citations. You want these things to be both true and correct, EVERY TIME.

“We had to re-state our financials and amend our taxes because the AI screwed up and we didn’t have anyone who understood accounting look at our books.”

For many years I've developed on a Linux VM running on a Windows host. At a couple of jobs I ran a Linux VM on a MacOS host.

This way, my development environment remains stable and portable and the thing I use to read email and surf the web is whatever. It works for me.

Reject. Period. No compromise. No friendly comments about how it can be improved. Just reject it as unreviewable.

Then ban the idiot who submitted it.

Customer service? In the age of AI? What have you been smoking?

You are in a completely normal dev shop. What's happened is that the start up mentality of "ship something - anything, and ship it NOW" has infected everything. Maybe over time you can make it better. But educating management can be a slow and frustrating process. Good luck!

Vibecoding is bad coding. Always. Even if I take the headline as correct, so what? It's still crap code that will collapse into an unmaintainable mess sooner rather than later.

I'm no longer at the company but yesterday was my last day so my information is still current.

The division I worked in was demanding that developers use AI at least once a week and they were tracking people's usage. The boss nagged about it every day.

I had no problem meeting the requirement but did find it's contributions to be very hit or miss as to usefulness.

Could you just set up some kind of automated job to make an AI query of some sort, once a day, and then just throw the result out? To satisfy the tracking/nagging?