alt Hacker Newswe are going through our second AI transformation, the first one didn't work that well because the tools were shit.
Whats happening now and whos driving it is interesting. The CEO has a license for this new tool (think one of the top 4, Qwen Claude, Gemini, openAI) and really likes it. So much so that they (non coder) are making lots of little single page web apps.
The COO is bollocks deep in AI, and is saying that we cannot buy any SaaS products anymore. We must make it ourselves.
The engineering manager has seen this as an opportunity to build out a brand for engineering (its a small department in a medium sized company) by delivering quickly what the large year long efforts cant.
This has formed a slopnexus where PoCs are spun up left right and centre, but there isn't much time or thought going in to making them sustainable.
What started out as a (simple ish) asset management tool, neatly scoped into a deliverable PoC has morphed into a 5 product as one monster.
Its a mess that will either lead to burn out or disaster.
Just...wow. That sounds awful, and I'm sorry for you, but I believe many other companies will or are already following that same path.
And myself being an infrastructure guy that needs to maintain all these PoCs that are now suddenly critical for production, it's the perfect nightmare.
And mind you, that dynamic always existed to a certain degree (laptop on a desk that runs some ugly Python script that does half the work of the BizOps team? Check. GCP account attached to the GSuite running a random instance for finance when the company is 101% on AWS? Check. Spreadsheet with macros that sends emails via Outlook as a mailing list manager? Check.) but at least when you discovered that you could scold them and tell them that we need to migrate this to a proper system because security. But nowadays with vibe-coded internal apps...it's a challenge.