> My manager told me that the time to deliver my latest project was cut to 20% of the original estimate because we are "an AI-first company". This sounds incre

> My manager told me that the time to deliver my latest project was cut to 20% of the original estimate because we are "an AI-first company". This sounds incredibly stupid. It’s going to take as long as it will and if they’re not okay with that, their delusional estimates should be allowed to crash and burn, which would hopefully be a learning experience. The problem is that sometimes there’s an industry wide hysteria even towards useful tech - like doing a lift and shift of a bunch of monoliths to AWS to be “cloud scale”, introducing Kubernetes or serverless without the ability to put either to good use, NoSQL for use cases it’s not good at and most recently AI. I think LLMs will eventually weather the hype cycle and it will settle down on what they’re actually kinda okay at vs not, the question is how many livelihoods will be destroyed along the way (alongside all the issues with large scale AI datacenter deployments). On a personal level, it feels like you should maybe do the less ethical thing of asking your employer in the ballpark of 1000-3000 USD for Claude credits a month, babysitting it enough to do the 20% of the work in the 20% new estimate, babysit it enough to ship a functional MVP and when they complain about missing functionality tell them that the AI tech just isn't mature enough but thankfully you'll be able to swoop in and salvage it for only the remaining 80% of the remaining estimate's worth of work.