They had one week to “onboard” and then were fired with no warning. The fact iscoding assistants show promise but just aren’t that helpful for most experienced engineers at this point, so installing the tool is just another time-wasting task. Maybe they didn’t get it done that week for the same reason people put off TPS reports and other management-driven make-work?
> “I said, ‘AI is important. We need you to all learn it and at least onboard. You don’t have to use it every day yet until we do some training, but at least onboard by the end of the week. And if not, I’m hosting a meeting on Saturday with everybody who hasn’t done it and I’d like to meet with you to understand why.’”
They would rather go to a Saturday meeting than do the thing their CEO explicitly asked them to do in the very reasonable timeframe they were asked to do it.
> This LLM mandate is a terrible idea. And all I have to do to for an opportunity directly explain to the highest level of management why it's a terrible idea is say I haven't installed Codex yet.
I'm sorry, but I disagree that Claude Code and alikes wouldn't be helpful for experienced engineers. Am I saying that they would make their day 1000x more productive? Nope, but I'm sure they wouldn't say that they are time-wasting tools. Honestly, at this point, I wouldn't trust an experienced engineer that refused to try them.
