> AI adoption seems to have been mandated in many places from the top layer of management, regardless of how many of them ever worked (or studied for) an engineering job.
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> I do admit that this approach immediately triggered my contrarian side and made me very defiant of any AI tool. I don’t believe someone who has never written a line of code in their life should be telling me what to use for my engineering job. This sounds to me like the most terminal case of micro-management, and that’s never a good thing (on top of being personally insulting).
This. So much of this.
Hey do you guys wanna hear my nuanced thoughts about AI? Because the mods on HackerNews sure didn't.
https://mropert.github.io/2026/08/04/an_honest_review_of_ai_programming/