Are people's bosses making them use AI tools?

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118 points soraminazuki | 2 comments | 31 Aug 25 02:47 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source

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AlexandrB ◴[31 Aug 25 05:16 UTC] No.45080550[source]▶

LLMs are the first technology I've experienced where there's a lot of top-down pressure to adopt it ASAP. Most other technologies in my career, like VCS or static analysis or whatever else were championed by colleagues or peers.

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1. wiml ◴[31 Aug 25 07:28 UTC] No.45081140[source]▶

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I've seen it before. Adopting Windows Server or IIS. Choosing Oracle for your RDBMS. That kind of thing. It has all the hallmarks of a decision based on a salesguy's pitch with no technical evaluation.

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2. danaris ◴[31 Aug 25 11:45 UTC] No.45082441[source]▶

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I agree that it looks like a mandate due to a sales pitch, but there's a difference between the higher-ups mandating adoption of a particular brand of a more generic technology—eg, choosing IIS over Apache, or Oracle over MySQL—and mandating the technology itself, when it's not something that's already required for the project (as a webserver is for a website).

While this isn't a completely unprecedented situation, it's definitely much less common than just having to use the Big Corporate version of a tech stack rather than an open source version of same just because it came bundled with the package your CEO got sold.

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