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AI use at my company is now mandatory. We all have gotten really expensive Claude of ChatGPT licenses and (apparently) it's being monitored whether we actually use them. For while I've resisted, telling everyone I don't touch that shit with a ten-foot pole. Now I just write the occasional non-invasive prompt ("check for spelling errors in the comments" or "format the buffer so that all lines have less than 80 columns) just so someone can report to the c-suite that our department is using AI.
Meanwhile I have to do code reviews on patches that have been actually written by a chatbot and doing that takes sometimes as long as writing the whole fucking code from scratch.
But hey, style guidelines are out the window too because the slop machine can't follow them consistently anyway and apparently fixing that shit manually is too much to ask. So at least I never have to fight anyone again over indentation and braces.
Find out who made it mandatory, then CC them on every error the bot makes ever
Bonus points if it make an "agentic" LLM 8 ball do the forwarding for you
Yeah I've had to do this too. It's lovely isn't it? You do all the work and someone else who half-assed a prompt and sent out a change without even reading it gets most of the credit.