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bloafyesterday at 11:54 PM6 repliesview on HN

Organizational inertia is a real thing. There are still fortune 500 companies with internal bans on AI. A lot of the answer to "how much impact has AI had" comes down to "how much have we even attempted?"

In my workplace, we're going to decline to renew some software subscriptions because a non-programmer vibe-coded their replacement in a week.

The impacts are here, they're just not evenly distributed yet.


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lelanthrantoday at 1:40 PM

> In my workplace, we're going to decline to renew some software subscriptions because a non-programmer vibe-coded their replacement in a week.

That's gonna turn out well :-)

Maybe they only need it to work for the next 6 months of enhancements...

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niccetoday at 12:06 AM

> In my workplace, we're going to decline to renew some software subscriptions because a non-programmer vibe-coded their replacement in a week. The impacts are here, they're just not evenly distributed yet.

Interesting to see the impact in the long term when battle tested software gets replaced with vibecoded variants by non-programmers. Does it increase data breaches or quality actually goes up?

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layer8today at 11:58 AM

> In my workplace, we're going to decline to renew some software subscriptions because a non-programmer vibe-coded their replacement in a week.

This is curious to me, as at my workplace we never had such subscriptions for small- to mid-size stuff and always built the corresponding tooling in-house.

bojantoday at 5:19 PM

Good luck to that non-programmer person when support tickets start coming in.

danaristoday at 9:43 AM

> There are still fortune 500 companies with internal bans on AI.

And there probably always will be.

When the choices are "hand all of our highly sensitive internal data over to one of several other companies, all of which have questionable financials and very cozy relationships with adtech" or "invest in a whole bunch of expensive GPU servers plus internal talent to run our own models", vs "keep on doing what we've been doing, which is still working just fine", why would a non-tech Fortune 500 company choose either of the former options?

ballsactoday at 12:18 AM

> we're going to decline to renew some software subscriptions

Yeah, sure you are. Report back when it happens.

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