{"id":8984,"date":"2026-02-21T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/developer-honest-assessment-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T17:00:00","slug":"developer-honest-assessment-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/developer-honest-assessment-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Developer\u2019s Honest Assessment of AI at Work Rattles the Official Narrative"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A veteran programmer shared his brutally honest opinions about AI\u2019s role in the workplace, and it\u2019s as much an indictment of the tech as it is of the organizations lazily deploying it.<\/p>\n

In an X rant<\/a> that\u2019s being praised in online programming circles<\/a>, the programmer, Dax Raad, said that what\u2019s holding back software companies isn\u2019t the speed they\u2019re able to churn out code, but the quality of their ideas \u2014 an issue AI isn\u2019t going to solve, despite the industry\u2019s fixation on emphasizing its supposed ability to supercharge productivity.<\/p>\n

\u201cYour org rarely has good ideas. Ideas being expensive to implement was actually helping,\u201d wrote Raad, whose own company OpenAuth sells AI tools.<\/p>\n

And workers aren\u2019t using AI to be ten times more effective, he continued; instead, \u201cthey\u2019re using it to churn out their tasks with less energy spend.\u201d<\/p>\n

Worse yet, the \u201ctwo people on your team that actually tried are now flattened by the slop code everyone is producing, they will quit soon.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEven when you produce work faster you\u2019re still bottlenecked by bureaucracy and the dozen other realities of shipping something real,\u201d Raad concluded.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s some research that backs up Raad\u2019s scathing assessment. An ongoing study reported<\/a> in Harvard Business Review<\/em> which monitored two hundred employees at a US tech company found that AI was actually intensifying the workers\u2019 jobs<\/a>, instead of reducing their workloads. Using AI to accelerate tasks, it turned out, was a double-edged sword, because it led to \u201cworkload creep,\u201d forming a vicious cycle in which AI raised expectations for how fast the workers had to churn stuff out, which in turn made them more reliant on AI to keep up with the greater demands. The upshot: worker fatigue, burnout, and lower quality work; not the hallmarks of a thriving organization.<\/p>\n

Another study documented how AI led to employees passing off low quality \u201cworkslop<\/a>\u201d that masqueraded as good work but in reality required someone else downstream to fix it. On top of slowing everything down, it bred resentment among coworkers, with some admitting that receiving workslop from a colleague lowered their opinion of them.<\/p>\n

As Raad makes clear, AI is not a cure-all. And even if AI does increase productivity, that productivity can be a mirage. How often are AI models producing shoddy code? And what if that shoddy code goes unnoticed?\u00a0Maybe, as Raad suggests, ideas being \u201cexpensive to implement\u201d was a good thing, because it forced engineers to think about a problem creatively. Not every impulse should be entertained. What\u2019s a thousand ideas that were dashed off with an AI instead of a few promising ones that are honed and given time and attention? The former may seem more productive, when it\u2019s really a collection of dead ends.<\/p>\n

Moreover, having employees become dependent on AI hardly seems conducive to rewarding and fostering creativity. As numerous experts have warned, it\u2019s another form of cognitive offloading, in which crucial functions of our brain, including critical thinking, are outsourced to a piece of technology.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the line being peddled by tech companies, however. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang reportedly told his workers<\/a> they\u2019d be \u201cinsane\u201d not to use AI to complete every possible task. Microsoft\u2019s AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman claims<\/a> AI\u2019s already so effective that virtually all white collar tasks will be automated within a year and a half. And Microsoft and Google both brag that over a quarter of their code is now AI-generated.<\/p>\n

But however useful these AI tools may or may not be, they can\u2019t work miracles. At the end of the day, it comes down to humans to run a tight ship.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven when you produce work faster\u201d with AI, Raad said, \u201cyou\u2019re still bottlenecked by bureaucracy and the dozen other realities of shipping something real.\u201d<\/p>\n

More on AI:<\/strong> A Huge Survey of CEOs and Other Execs Just Found Something Damning About AI\u2019s Effects on Productivity
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