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Just realized our "Al-powered" incident tool is literally just calling ChatGPT API
we use this incident management platform that heavily marketed their ai root cause analysis feature. leadership was excited about it during the sales process.
had a major outage last week. database connection pool maxed out. their ai analysis suggested we "check database connectivity" and "verify application logs."
like no shit. thanks ai.
got curious and checked their docs. found references to openai api calls. asked their support about it. they basically admitted the ai feature sends our incident context to gpt-4 with some prompts and returns the response.
we're paying extra for an ai tier that's just chatgpt with extra steps. i could literally paste the same context into claude and get better answers for free.
the actual incident management stuff works fine. channels, timelines, postmortems are solid. just annoyed we're paying a premium for "ai" that's a thin wrapper around openai.
anyone else discovering their "ai-powered"
𝗔𝗜 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝘀𝘂𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝗻 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴
I know this topic has been floating around this sub quite some time now, but I feel like this doesn't get discussed enough.
I am a certified backend enigneer and I have been programming for about 20 years. In my time i have worked on backend, frontend, system design, system analysis, devops, databases, infrastructure, cloud, robotics, you name it.
I've mostly been extremely passionate about what I do, taking pride in solving hard problems, digging deep into third party source code to find solutions to bugs. Even refactoring legacy systems and improving their performance 10x and starting countless hobby projects at home. It has been an exciting journey and I have never doubted my career choice until now.
Ever since ChatGPT first made an appearance I have slowly started losing interest in programming. At first, LLMs were quite bad so I didn't really get any solutions out of them when problems got even slightly harder. However, Claude is different. Lately I feel less of a programmer and more like a project manager, managing and supervising one mid-to-senior level developer who is Claude. Doing this, I sure deliver features faster than ever before, but it results in hollow and empty feeling. It's not fun or exciting, I cannot perceive these soulless features as my own creation anymore.
On top of everything I feel like I'm losing my knowledge with every prompt I write. Al has made me extremely lazy and it has completely undermined my value as a good engineer or even as a human being.
Everyone who is supporting the mass use of Al is quietly digging their own grave and I wish it was never invented.



























