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Comment by diehunde | Hacker News Reader

As an employee of a big tech company doing this, it's all fear mongering. We are being told that if everyone doesn't use these tools, our competitors will wipe the floor with us because they are using them and will ship features 10x faster. But many engineers are suspicious as well.

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I’m at a big tech company top and essentially no one is a true believer more than 3 or 4 levels down from the top. We’re all just trying to keep our use metrics high enough to not get noticed.

But for those top layers, I’ve never seen so much FOMO in all my life. We’re a very slow moving company but they act like we’ve got 2 weeks to go “AI first” or we’re dead in the water. I’ve never seen such a successful hype cycle. I’m pretty sure it’s the bots that are accelerating it so far behind a normal hype cycle.

Maybe AI is really good for vibe-coding bots that amplify FOMO?

It’s really good at spitting out prose that is frequently good enough to pass as human and bypass spam filters.

It's baffling, to be honest. I'm at a fintech that is currently pushing very hard at this, but in the same breath talking about how we're not a pure software play. I just don't understand where they're coming from.

irrational exuberance

Hook line and sinker..

Right so you are going to be left behind whilst the ground keeps shifting under you, given the models are non-deterministic and continuously changing?

There was a big rush of prompt engineers. Where are they now? Nobody even referse to 'prompt engineering' anymore.

The best thing to do is wait for steady-state. Whats going on is insane... a slow implosion of the code base.

Sadly, the quote on markets and solvency rings true here. Tech (among an increasing number of sector) is being hit hard by layoffs over this. Nothing is steady right now.

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