No one is pushing 100x the code or features they were before, projects aren't finishing any faster than they were before
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90% of their job anyway
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Helped: Marketing and Sales use for content generation.
Got in the way: Engineering productivity, meeting transcription, and PR review bots.
… We have spent god knows how much time and resources trying to get these tools doing anything more useful than simple demos that get thrown out immediately, and it's just not there. No one is pushing 100x the code or features they were before, projects aren't finishing any faster than they were before, and nobody even bothers turning on the meeting transcription tools either anymore because more often than not it'll interpret things said in the meeting just plain wrong or even make up entire discussion points that were never had. Just recently, like last week recently, we had some idiotic PR review bot from coderabbit or some other such company be …