Maybe some devs here can help me, I was recently promoted to “head of AI” at my work despite being very outwardly ambivalent towards it. So I’m struggling to figure out what would actually create value instead of just being an expensive waste of time but still satisfy the higher ups AI lust.

My first idea that I thought would actually be useful was just setting up the architecture for an actual analytics database for us and then let them explore it with metabase (then letting them use Claude for their wow factor of exploring it with AI or whatever).

But now I’m somewhat at a loss, so any insight you all have would be really helpful!

  • ejs@piefed.socialEnglish
    2·
    10 hours ago

    Could you explain what feelings you have about AI, and how you see these feelings as opposing. If you are just uncertain about AI (holding no opposing views), I think you would want to research more. Maybe if we knew more about your teams at your work, and what is being developed. You could honestly just spend an hour a week working on standardizing coding agent availability and licensing/subscriptions, and leave it at that. Either they weren’t looking for someone who was a machine learning engineer, or whoever promoted you is clueless to what AI actually means.

    • saplyng@lemmy.worldOP
      6·
      9 hours ago

      I suppose my views are predominantly that it’s just kinda fine? I think it’s naive to think that it has no value but also don’t think it’s going to be the end all be all of tech and once the hype train settles we’ll probably have a medium similar to the dot com bubble bursting.

      I’d say I’m somewhat familiar with llms in general; self hosting a few with llama-swap, testing harnesses, generally just testing its capabilities year after year. As for my teams we have our singular backend dev, singular mobile dev, and singular hardware engineer who hold up our platform and sold consumer devices and then the litany of customer facing staff.

      Morbidly, I only got the job because their ai hype man contractor died and they decided “maybe we should look internally instead”, but the general work he produced was a singular Claude vibed executive report.