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Devs gripe about having AI shoved down their throats - The force-feeding will continue until morale improves (www.theregister.com)
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Devs gripe about having AI shoved down their throats

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[–] Olap@lemmy.world 44 points 6 days ago (3 children)

My management are measuring code written by AI as a metric, and expect it to go up...

[–] Maestro@fedia.io 22 points 6 days ago

Run, fast!

[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 6 days ago (3 children)

How do they measure it?

[–] Olap@lemmy.world 26 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Genuinely no idea. Which makes it even more terrifying. I suspect Copilot github stats

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 days ago

That is delightfully gameable. Just don't do it all at once. ;-)

[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 3 points 5 days ago

Makes me think used tokens, which is very easy to fake.

If I were in a malicious environment, I'd be interested in gaming the system, excessively producing AI code even if I never use it.

[–] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 days ago

They asked AI to do it.

[–] hubobes@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago

We have just decided that we will not enable copilot telemetry as it may lead to exactly such a scenario. We would love to know, because maybe we could get rid of some licenses but the risk that we might start measuring people (even if we don't want to do that) by those metrics is far too high.