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I work in tech, and both with and around AI. Seems to me that it needs to be highly constrained to do a good job. Too much leeway and it goes astray. So more and more I see people developing skills for AI that basically run scripts or do tightly defined tasks that are pretty much like scripts. So to me it feels like the future of our current version of AI is most likely to be a user interface. And it could add a lot there. Many teams have lots of scripts to do tasks, but the people who need them either can't find them, or don't even know to look. AI can solve that. Thoughts?

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[-] zieg989@awful.systems 5 points 5 days ago

Chat interface is one of the least effective ways to do things. We have already been there with voice assistants just a couple of years ago. "Voice is the new UI" and all that. The thing never took off.

[-] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world -1 points 5 days ago

I'm not so sure about that. Real time voice recognition is still pretty poor in my opinion. Chat takes that out of the way. So the failure of voice doesn't mean chat can't work. And think of how often you use grep. It's pretty effective. AI can be a more advanced form or grep. And most importantly, we can tune where it looks and such. So like an easier to configure search engine, or really several that can be tuned for the specific search. If a search engine in the form of an AI skill can be highly specific, it can be better then a general search engine. Now put like 10 or 15 of those together with specifics to how your specific team/company works. And toss configuring the AI on top of that to know which one to use for what. Feels like we could make it very good. But of course, it isn't going to work out of the box. We have to take ownership of it and make it work. Then give it to the whole team...

[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 3 points 5 days ago

I actually see it that way. It may allow freedom from the keyboard and mouse and to me is a bit like terminal to gui.

[-] one_old_coder@piefed.social 1 points 5 days ago

the people who need them either can’t find them, or don’t even know to look.

Who cannot find a script to do their job? If it's a developer, it's a bad one. If it's someone else, they can ask the developers to clean that up.

AI can solve that.

Nope.

We have more than a hundred scripts. Developers don't need to use them all that often. That can't possibly remember them all and know where they are and all that. Maybe you just don't have very many. But it isn't a matter of developer quality. And your nope with no explanation is weak. Share some logic as to why.

[-] one_old_coder@piefed.social 3 points 5 days ago

You have a serious problem if you have 100 scripts. AI won't fix that.

hm. Well I tend to work with smaller companies that have less people overall. So we need a lot of automation to enable the devs to be more productive. We have fully automated cicd pipeline where everything in the pipeline can be run locally. Most of the scripts support the pipeline allowing quick and easy reproduction of anything that might not work in gitlab. We have scripts to authenticate, validate, build, deploy, unit test, integration test, performance test, lint, e2e test, vuln scan, terraform, teardown, updating tickets, generating release notes... It's a very transparent system to the developers. And it works pretty well, which is why they don't need to have all the scripts memorized. They just don't need to run them much. But when the pipeline fails in a way they don't understand, access to all this allows them to self-serve finding out why. I know that plenty of places just make the devs do a lot of this manually. And since they are doing it often, it's easy to remember and a required part of the job. But humans make mistakes, or cut corners and such which leads to bugs getting out into production. With working automation the devs don't have to do these things manually very often which means they don't need to memorize all of them, and less opportunity for bugs to slip through that could have been caught. The fact that they don't have our scripts memorized is actually a sign of success for the automation. I have always been of the opinion that the more we can automate the mundane tasks away, the better. The people I have worked with prefer spending their time designing and coding, not memorizing mundane processes. Even with all our automation, our devs are always hoping for more.

[-] banause@feddit.org 1 points 5 days ago

Speak for yourself, not my zettelkasten.

this post was submitted on 25 May 2026
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