Microsoft pushes staff to use internal AI tools more, and may consider this in reviews. 'Using AI is no longer optional.'

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• kewjo@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  i work on a lot of scala, my company suggests everyone should use copilot. i don’t think anyone in positions is power realize how dependant on humans ai is

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• kippinitreal@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  More blood data for the blood data god.

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  • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nulls for the null throne

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• RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Did this Microsoft tactic ever work in their favour? Forcing people to use things they don’t like? Internet Explorer, Edge, Bing Search, AI and so on. I think it’s not a long-term success story. Also, why focus on tool usage instead of actual goals.

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  • raltoid@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Bing is used a lot more than most people think. It’s also used by sites like DuckDuckGo, Qwant, Swisscows, etc.

    As for why: They want them to train their own replacement.

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• orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I live in Seattle. Got a bunch of friends at Amazon. This is their policy as well; “use AI to do your work.” It’s not a mandatory thing there…yet, but it’s there.

  Absolutely a modeling and collection tool for them.

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  • kewjo@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    i heard from a reliable source people were put on pip at Amazon for solving problems but not using enough ai

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• TommySoda@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So basically, they are saying “we invested a fuck ton of money into this so you better fucking use it.”

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• lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s good. The more Microsoft boycotts itself, the more people shift to Linux.

  Using AI tools sometimes makes sense, sometimes it doesn’t. And by forcing the usage of a tool that won’t necessarily help, MS is only adding more meaningless busywork to its own development, like sand in an engine.

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  • Madrigal@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They’re going to end up in “the only tool we have is a hammer” territory soon.

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• besselj@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If the tools were as useful as MS claimed, they wouldn’t need to force people to use them.

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