Ask HN: Did you tell your employer you use AI to do your work?

Yeah. We've been gradually building it into the workflow, doing tutorials, allocating some R&D time on it.

I think it's like calculators in exams; at some point, you just accept it and make the questions harder. If you're asking questions that can be solved by ChatGPT or Google, they're probably not a good filter.

We're also reevaluating the role of the programmer at work. We're moving past the era of code monkeys who memorize search algorithms and design patterns. We're entering the phase where you give a dev the context of what the product is trying to do and the devs think of the solution that involves the drawbacks/limitations/effort of implementing this solution. Code is simply communicating with a machine, and AI is similar to a higher level language.

I'd be more curious in how people are actually using AI At the moment, i guess maybe it's good for coding etc, but in general I have found ChatGPT just gives answers that are very generic, people have mentioned brainstorming but i've not found it good at that, because everything it lists are just the most generic things you can think of anyway.

I think part of the problem is that it's just a language model, so it's input data is a lot of crap from the internet and a thousand listicles were people are spewing the same generic nonsense.

But personally I would not, but then I just want to get my job done as quickly and easily as possible so i can move onto something else.

I like this job. I use AI for this job. It is good to do a good job, and AI is good, therefore I use AI. You're a good boss. I like you. I do good things for people I like. What one does for a boss is work, so if you like your boss, you do good things by doing good work. AI is good, so I use AI to get good work done. You are my boss, so it is for you.

Had an interview with a company the other day, I stated that I loved using ChatGPT to view problems from another perspective and to quickly write boilerplate code. They ended up hiring me, so I guess they didn't mind? At the end of they day it's just another tool, exactly like your IDE's autocompletion.

My main client which I work with, actively uses ChatGPT to brainstorm ideas and also write documentation on some parts of the product. They are now also expanding the internal knowledge-base with instructions on others to use ChatGPT in the day-to-day.

@FAANG There have been internal conversations and arguments, but eventually and thankfully lawyers caved in.

We have our own implementations for certain stuff, but copilot is also accessible under certain conditions.