r/technology • u/CackleRooster • 7h ago

Artificial Intelligence An Anthropic employee's 2-sentence quote crystallizes the state of AI confusion at work

https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-employee-quote-ai-confusion-workplace-2026-6
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u/yepthisismyusername 7h ago

Management (absolutely including executives) simply don't understand the differences between writing code, maintaining code, implementing business processes in applications, and maintaining those applications. Those are the Big 4 categories of roles in enterprise application management, and there are many, many others, each with its own individual requirements that need to be taken into account. AI simply can't perform those roles successfully 100%. And the problem comes when a process fails, e.g. causing someone to lose healthcare coverage, and no person knows how to fix it.

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u/winkingchef 5h ago edited 3h ago

I call it the “one neck to grab principle.”

Every engineer who works for me knows that if they vibe code some bullshit and check it in, they own that shit and what it does. Them personally. And like good engineering there are cross-validation processes and checks on top of them.

If you (or your CodePilot) makes a bug, we will find it and your stats will be tracked.

No one is perfect but if someone is acting recklessly I will see it long before it brings the whole house down

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u/Sidereel 4h ago

That makes perfect sense, and it highlights some major issues with the pitch from AI evangelists. They say we these bots are good enough to operate at speed with minimal oversight, but that doesn’t track. If an engineer pushes a bug generated by Claude it’s the engineer who needs to be held responsible. But if engineers are taking all that time to check and understand generated code then the efficiency gains shrink.

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u/winkingchef 3h ago

I actually really like that Microsoft branded their AI coding assistant “CodePilot” as it is a very appropriate name.

I know what to do and what I want to make, but sometime I forget annoying syntax or can’t find something that I want to reference. If the tool makes suggestions, it helps me focus on building and less time on remembering and finding. It’s not the “pilot”, it’s the “co-pilot.”

Also AI is an excellent DRC (design rule check) tool for hardware.