The answer is no AI. It’s really simple. The costs for ai are not worth the output.
Wrong answer. If you don’t give them access, the alternative (ruling out not using AI because leadership will never go for that) is to hire high school kids to take a task from a manager, ask the ai to do it, then do what the AI says repeatedly to iterate to the solution. The problem with that alt is that it is no better than giving the ai access, and it leaves you with no senior tech people. Instead, you give it access, but only give senior tech people access to the AI. Ones who would know to tell the AI to have a backup of the database, one designed to not let you delete it without multiple people signing off.
Senior tech people aren’t going to spend thier time trying things an AI needs tried to find the solution. So if you don’t give it access, they won’t use it, and eventually they will all be gone. Then you are even further up shit creek than you are now.
The answer overall, is smarter people talking to the AI, and guardrails to stop a single point of failure. The later is nothing new.
MartianRecon@lemmus.org 7 hours ago
Shanmugha@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Nah. As a tech people, I am not going to give an llm write access to anything in production, period
aesthelete@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
What are you even talking about?
If you hand chat bots access to tools that without so much as a confirmation proceed to do things that require you to run your fucking disaster recovery procedures…you might just be a 💩 🧠 'd moron.
Are you writing these AI tools? Because you seem like the type.
Sure, the only answer is fucking “YOLO mode” everything. 👍
Matty_r@programming.dev 6 hours ago
I’m in favour of hiring kids to figure out the solution through iteration and doing web searches etc. If they fuck up, then they learn and eventually become better at their job - maybe even becoming a Senior themselves eventually.
I get what you’re saying - Seniors are more likely to use the tools more effectively, but there are many cases of the AI not doing what its told. Its not repeatably consistent like a bash script.
People are better - always.
criss_cross@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Do you go on an oncall rotation by chance? Because anyone that has to respond to night time pages would not be saying this lol.
vithigar@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
What is this insane rambling?
The alternative is that the only thing with access to make changes in your production environment is the CI pipeline that deploys your production environment.
Neither the AI, nor anything else on the developers machine, should have access to make production changes.