AI is good at bullshit work, find ROI there

One company encouraged widespread vibe-coding from citizen developers but recoiled from the problems of the huge shadow IT that emerged – they are now looking to build a platform to help control this work without stifling the useful tools that were produced.

Part of the problem here may be simple experience with LLMs. Many in management find LLMs do a decent job of preparing management reports. Or summarizing management reports prepared by other LLMs. Given this they naturally think LLMs must do a decent job of programming too. My anti-management self has to mention Kelsey Hightower’s observation:

The less busy work you have the less appealing these Al tools are

🔗 Fragments: July 21