Pretty much nothing. We'd remove the AI integrations, the UI elements, then back to where we were. Luckily, we have no load bearing AI.
But if everyone else got to keep their AI, we'd lose customers very quickly.
wax66
I would guess that AI has given me a 30% improvement in pace? I don't know, it would feel like riding a bike on level ground instead of downhill
chuckgreenman
The effort required to do most jobs has gone down and so has the output quality. Rather than doing the same quality work with less effort, some people use LLMs to produce minimum-quality work at minimum effort.
LLMs are a cool tool but we’re over-encouraging use in every domain, even tasks they’re not good at. Every tech company in the world seems to be getting rich though how can I possibly say things would be better without it?
VariousPrograms
We’d save a lot of time not sitting on calls while managers show us the results of their brainstorming sessions with Claude. Instead we could focus on making the products better again.
al_borland
I’d have to stop interacting with meat proxies and wouldn’t have to read copy pasted LLM text.
vips7L
I'm fairly confident our management has managed to spend more on failed or pointless AI efforts than AI could produce in benefits.
If you tell every manager they need to show some sort of success with AI, you get a lot of projects that don't make sense, which then quietly die, and the process repeats.
nitwit005
We're an app dev agency so we would inflate our costs and timelines by 5x and we'd never win another bid.
_menelaus
I generally agree that the business does not see increased productivity and revenue from AI, if it does it is small enough to be within error.
That said, if everyone (not just devs) came in and there was no AI, the org would come to a halt. AI is load-bearing in my company. Everything from dev, code reviews, planning, doc writing, ops heavily uses AI. I mean heavily, there are dev that would not know where to start triaging an alarm without the robots. Same with customer service. So much of the human capital has leaked out of peoples' brains that is fair to compare it to brain drain.
Realistically, it would be painful for 1-3 months. People would go to teams with AI. A year from now, leadership is gonna have a hard time justifying keeping the lights out.
It is akin to asking "what would happen if your company stopped using the internet(to look things up)".
oldsklgdfth
I'd have to do more manual work, but nothing major would happen. We don't use AI in our product at all.
Jeremy1026
We would probably be fine, but much slower.
However if everyone else stopped using AI we would be broke, so please don't do that.
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But if everyone else got to keep their AI, we'd lose customers very quickly.
wax66
chuckgreenman
LLMs are a cool tool but we’re over-encouraging use in every domain, even tasks they’re not good at. Every tech company in the world seems to be getting rich though how can I possibly say things would be better without it?
VariousPrograms
al_borland
vips7L
If you tell every manager they need to show some sort of success with AI, you get a lot of projects that don't make sense, which then quietly die, and the process repeats.
nitwit005
_menelaus
That said, if everyone (not just devs) came in and there was no AI, the org would come to a halt. AI is load-bearing in my company. Everything from dev, code reviews, planning, doc writing, ops heavily uses AI. I mean heavily, there are dev that would not know where to start triaging an alarm without the robots. Same with customer service. So much of the human capital has leaked out of peoples' brains that is fair to compare it to brain drain.
Realistically, it would be painful for 1-3 months. People would go to teams with AI. A year from now, leadership is gonna have a hard time justifying keeping the lights out.
It is akin to asking "what would happen if your company stopped using the internet(to look things up)".
oldsklgdfth
Jeremy1026
However if everyone else stopped using AI we would be broke, so please don't do that.
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