r/pcmasterrace • u/Away-Huckleberry9967 • 1d ago

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u/Argon288 1d ago

I get it, people hate AI slop. But the fact that anyone right now can write their own software with just a prompt is terrifying to Adobe, etc. And that is fucking great.

Now in 2026, anyone (you) can create whatever you want with AI, and it requires no programming knowledge what so ever. I hate AI generated images, videos, etc, but software generated by AI... I do not hate.

I mean the most promising thing to me is that there are people who have taken the time to report 1,700 issues. It will take an AI model minutes to fix one of those issues. It may take a person hours. I haven't used Photocraft, but I imagine in a few months, there will be a lot less bug reports, and a more functional application.

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u/NothingButBadIdeas 1d ago edited 1d ago

I hate this sentiment. I write code and it sucks knowing they’re trying to replace me with this. The code is bad, the reviews suck. Everything’s terrible.

Edit: A lot of AI defenders out here telling me I can’t be bummed that my favorite part of my job, writing code, is essentially ending. And that I shouldn’t be sad that companies are going to downsize our tech sector in favor of less engineers and more AI. What a very weird position to take.

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u/Wonderful-Crazy1910 1d ago

anyone working in IT in any capacity is feeling the pain on this, I'm a network engineer, and yes sometimes AI tools can be useful, trusting them emphatically is so dangerous and I Dont get how people arent seeing it.

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u/NothingButBadIdeas 1d ago

Bro, same. My coworkers aren’t even reviewing the code they push out with it. I had to request changes on a PR that would accidentally cause 700+ extra network calls everytime someone opened a page

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u/Wonderful-Crazy1910 1d ago

our NOC is going to turn into a nightmare, they're using AI to create KBs instead of actually reviewing networks, meaning we have topology maps that are basically just AI hallucinations and less than useless. We'll get a new client and they just trust the AI to import all relavent deta, not paying attention to the fact its referencing a spreadsheet that is 5+ years old (one client the DB they imported was from 2009! didnt even have half their sites on it)

I feel like AI itself isnt the problem, its how they're selling it to businesses, and unfortunately by the time the people who can actually point how how flawed it is, or why it shouldnt be used in X scenario, the company has already invested Millions in the tokens and whatnot, like it would be fine if they actually put any effort into what they're doing with these tools but so many people just go "nah its AI its got it"

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u/Local_Community_7510 Desktop 23h ago

dude, im a developer working in ISP, and yes, i could confirm lol

one of the NOC are running the PPPOE commands (copy pasted from GPT) without setting up a sandboxed network to test it properly, and causing a deletion of over 700 customers profile meaning 700 people internet suddenly disconnected

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u/Hrmerder It's Garuda btw 23h ago

Yep.. Where I work that would be automatic termination. If you did happen to get mega lucky and not get terminated, you better not even sneeze for at least a year after if you want to keep your job. Now with that being said I love my job, it's great, it's a great place to work, but that is absolutely inexcuseable. I took down an NNI once for about 2hrs inadvertently not long after I started... I was told later on it cost the company $20k in SLA funds... Never ever did that again..

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u/lkn240 1d ago

Sounds like they don't have a proper test harness setup

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u/NothingButBadIdeas 1d ago

Yea, for new PRs AI actually kicks ass cause every PR is coupled with a unit test. But our legacy code is definitely missing things that could have caught this.

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u/Suitable_Tadpole4870 Ryzen 7 5700X / Radeon 7700XT 1d ago

I’m at a work conference this week and all I’ve heard is bullshit AI integration. “Let’s give these agents access to our financial information so they can be our personal bankers forever! It totally won’t go bad whatsoever!”

Fucking spare me lmao these people are so far up their own asses at this convention circlejerking about AI

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u/joblessandsuicidal 1d ago

That's crazy, any competent AI policy would have shot that down instantly

Unless somehow "competant" and "AI" should not be used in the same sentence...

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u/kevsbacon 23h ago

Like "Military" and 'intelligence"

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u/Hrmerder It's Garuda btw 23h ago

"Two words combined that can't make sense" - Megadeth - Rust in Peace - Hanger 18 - 1990

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u/Suitable_Tadpole4870 Ryzen 7 5700X / Radeon 7700XT 1d ago

These people have blown smoke so far up their own asses they think they’re hot shit lol just extremely out of touch with reality imo.

I love cyberpunk but I’d much rather not live it. I can’t imagine how apocalyptic an event like the DataKrash would be in irl and I can’t help but feel like we’re increasing the chances of some crazy shit like that happening to where we have to segment the internet and recreate it essentially

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u/The_Salacious_Zaand 13h ago

It's because the AI agents aren't designed to be useful - they're designed to maximize engagement because that's what makes money for the AI companies.

The AI tells people exactly what they they want to hear in a pleasing tone. It tells them that they are so smart for using the AI, praising them like a mother praises a five year old. It's confirmation bias and Dunning-Kreuger all the way down.

I work in defense and we are sprinting towards the brick wall, feeding all our data into public models because idiots want an answer - ANY answer - no matter how correct it is.

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u/Wonderful-Crazy1910 22h ago

this is the inherent problem, its sales people for AI companies, and C-suite people who dont know better that are the ones making the fucking decisions.

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u/PerceptionQueasy3540 1d ago

They're the type of people that don't learn unless its the hard way.

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u/Wonderful-Crazy1910 22h ago

problem is, the C-suites that make these decisions arent going to be the ones to feel any pain from it. Its all t he people who have their workload tripled with no pay, or get laid off from not being needed or even from poor financial performances that stem from over-leveraging AI. The C-suites making these decisions will still manage to increase their pay and get more bonuses.

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u/Hrmerder It's Garuda btw 23h ago

I am also a Network Admin, but luckily in my org we use it for helpful assistance (as an example - what is the equivalent of 'show mac-address table' on a Cisco switch, but on a Ciena, Calix, Juniper) but outside of that we do not use and will NOT be using AI on the network. That would be bad bad bad. I only hope for everybody else out there that the org isn't pushing them to do dumb stuff like that... Maybe something like ISE? Sure that would make a lot of sense in a lot of ways, but not core for sure..

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u/RUPlayersSuck R9 7900X | RTX 5060 TI | 32GB DDR5 17h ago

Exactly.

People should be viewing AI as a useful tool that can provide assistance and maybe save a bit of time.

I think its still way too early to be completely reliant on it and using it to replace people...especially engineers and coders with years of training & experience.

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u/smellyhippy420 14h ago

So you're using it for things you could just find pretty easily on a traditional old search engine?

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u/Hrmerder It's Garuda btw 14h ago

Yeah but without the need to sift through pages of pdf files or learning forums/threads/etc.. I have a higher paced job so it helps a bit to save time.

And even then that is a niche use case for me. I basically never use AI at work.

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u/AGsec 12h ago

But quicker and more interactive. I'd rather work with gen AI chat bot to troubleshoot something instead of being talked down to by some nerd on a message board who closes my thread because I didn't include a sacrifice of my first born.

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u/nghigaxx 12h ago

Atm for me its a glorified search engine and auto complete. All AI do is making you read more at work, which kinda sucks

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u/Wonderful-Crazy1910 22h ago

Oh totally, like I said its a great tool, the problem again is implementation from the fucking C-suite who dont know anything about their own companies IT infrastructure.

For example, my company, which is a major player longstanding fortune 500 member has started using claude to create KBs for new clients for our NOC/MSP services. And people are not reviewing the data PRIOR to deployment, theyre updating records/processes as needed.

Some clients we've fully onboarded, only to realize the spreadsheet we imported all circuit info, site contact info, hell even location info was from 2018.... we had over 50 locations that were either missing entirely, or permanently closed.

Like I said, AI could be super useful to pull info from a spreadsheet and create profiles, but a human being wouldve noted the giant fucking 2018 in the title of the document and raised a red flag lmfao

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u/PoeticHistory 20h ago

Isnt this valid for frontier models only? What speaks against locally hosted AI? Theres high demand in critical infrastructure for that as frontier AI can not suffice in terms of security.

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u/Hrmerder It's Garuda btw 14h ago

Neither AI is a good idea of letting loose on a network. Even a very carefully tight nit AI can make mistakes that can be disastrous for a network. One wrong command and it can black hole some serious traffic. What you would have to do to even think about that being a good idea is have a very specific and small trained ai running with many many guard rails, checks, balances, and even then it could pose a huge issue, and by then, good ole' regular programming would be much better (and cheaper) than using AI.

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u/Intel_Oil 7h ago

I'm not feeling the pain of this. I reduced my Products Devs by 70% and actually lowered delivery time. I'll get a hefty bonus this year and leave the company by the next, before it burns down.

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u/Mike_treib 19h ago

anyone working in IT in any capacity is feeling the pain on this

i don't, i love not having to write code, i absolutely never liked it, hands down the worst part of programming is having to write code and thanks to ai i haven't had to do it in years.