Why are so many companies pushing for AI adoption by developers?
6 alcasa 9 8/7/2025, 12:26:29 PM
Based on public news and stuff happening at my workplace, there seems to be a real or at least told narrative, that developers need to take up AI as a new technology.
But why? If AI is good, adoption won't require convincing, it would be harder to prevent developers from using AI in places you wouldn't want them to use it.
We can start with bosses imposing which tools we use. We usually don't like that. Especially when these mandates are accompanied by unreasonable expectations (productivity will increase by 50%! You'll become a 10x developer!). Now you're under even more pressure than before, with no real possibility of satisfying those expectations. Makes for a wonderful work environment, I'm sure.
Follow that up with the extremely negative social externalities AI brings to the table: resource exploitation in poorer neighborhoods, labor exploitation in poor nations, etc. In WV, where I live, the legislature have already stripped communities of their political rights, with the goal of being more "data-center friendly", which to me sums up AI rather nicely: an anti-democratic, anti-people, big-investor-friendly technology.
This time, it's exactly backwards. I posit that's because there is no clear value in excess of the costs with these tools.
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