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Caveats: I work in software development, its a small company and I am the head of our development dept. I was the one who championed AI use at my company. I trained our (Gen X aged) engineering team on how to use Claude code. I set up the Claude code guardrails for our internal systems.

It's a force multiplier, not a replacement for a person. If you already know the stuff you are using it for, and you already have a structure in place for QA and deployments, it can help you complete tasks much faster. The log analysis and code building alone has completely changed my job. We did not lay anyone off due to our AI adoption at our company and we are completing jobs much faster and we are accepting jobs we could not have worked on previously due to programming language limitations, by using it as a tool in an already existing workflow. And most importantly, we are not accumulating more tech debt by using AI, because we already have structure in place to prevent the build up of tech debt. We have actually started chipping away at some of the super old debt we've been putting off.

We only use AI in the development and IT depts of our company, we don't use AI for design or use it customer service which is one of the things I personally hate AI being used for.

That being said, since we adopted AI use, my workload has increased, because its a force multiplier the expectation is that we can deliver faster, which is not always the case, but now its a bit harder to argue it, especially with sales guys who don't even understand the product they are selling let alone how the development cycle works.

Personally, I used AI to help me do some painful long data migrations I have been putting off because they were going to be so long and painful. I also used it to build some reference quick reference tools for games I play. I don't use it for anything other than code work.

Politically, I think it needs to be rained in and regulations put in place for both the hardware for building data centers shitting up the environment and the software and its sycophantic behavior that twists people in to AI psychosis. I think exposure to AI is making people stupid and kids today are at risk of not developing the critical thinking skills they need due to outsourcing all thought to AI. Although, we cannot close Pandora's box now, but I like to see us do something to prevent the monsters in it from running amok. I understand the hypocrisy in my AI use and my stance on AI and the environment.

EDIT: Downvoting me isn't going to change how I feel about AI.