thomas_martinez•2mo agoProlific Poster

My boss said our new AI project is 'just a tool' but the dev team keeps calling it 'the future'

I was in a meeting yesterday where the head of our dev team in Seattle said our new language model could 'fundamentally change how we write software,' but my boss cut in and said it's just another tool to make our current work faster. It made me think about whether we're really building something new or just a better version of what we already have. Are we overhyping the latest AI, or is my boss not seeing the bigger picture?

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evan_burns952mo ago

Honestly, that line about "just a tool" vs "the future" is the whole debate. In my last job, we had the same fight over an automation bot. The key was showing specific examples, like how it could handle a full client onboarding alone, not just speed up one step. That moved the talk from philosophy to real changes in our actual workflow.

lucashart2mo agoTop Commenter

Yeah that's a good point from @evan_burns95. So when you showed the full client onboarding example, did that change how people saw their own jobs? Like were they scared it would replace them, or did they get excited to not do the boring parts anymore? I feel like the "future" talk gets scary until you see the boring stuff actually gone.

grant_allen852mo ago

Read a piece in Wired about how people overestimate what new tech does in two years and underestimate it in ten. That's exactly this. Your boss is right about today. The devs are right about tomorrow. Both sides are talking past each other because they're looking at different timelines. Seen it before with cloud computing years back. Same arguments, different words.