You people pushing this can’t be serious with these productivity improvement numbers you’re throwing around.
Oh sh-t, you are?
Did you do a pilot program with engineers to get baseline productivity and then measure the actual effects of using AI?
No?
Just swallowed everything Microsoft told you?
Yeah.
yep these so called people wont be able tell compute matrix multiplication,and out here beating their chests off "lets go full on GEN AI on Databricks!!!". I mean are you listening to yourself?
JL is the next RL. If we are lucky in more ways than one.
@6cpz With the “strategic advisors” from NAO, “distinguished engineers” and VPs our inexperienced “CTO” has surrounded herself, I would not be surprised.
Please note the quotes were there by a reason ;)
And people continue to say Yes to everything she says.
@4oct+1sT But maybe we have a chance in MySpace?
As said before, same people that bought datalogue, celect and then destroyed everything in 18 months are now pushing for AI.
And now under the leadership of the Cto who has 0 Tech experience.
Chances of Nike being successful on the space? 0
Maybe we can get some gptVP’s and replace the current lot.
Same people who bought Datalogue and then shut it down are pushing for AI.
Ugh how much did we blow on NFTs and Web3? We bought an entire company didn’t we?
Just the new hotness. I remember when it was NFT's, and before that, block chain. The hype-trains of the inexperienced.
When you say “you” you’re talking to other disaffected employees like yourself. We are not the you you think we are, and it would help if you didn’t do that.
Nike hired an unqualified “Fashionista” as CTO, of course software companies like Microsoft & Amazon are giving the hard sell & she will swallow it because she doesn’t know any better. The same way Adobe rammed their lies down the SLT and look at that dumpster fire. Senior leaders with zero actual knowledge will continue lightning millions on fire and blame you for not covering up their incompetence.
Co-pilot is awesome AND the way that Nike VPs are pushing it out is stupid, nor will anyone see the productivity enhancement. If you want to enhance productivity, you have to start addressing the core engineering and organizational problems. Co-pilot is just another tool in the mix that won’t be properly utilized.
@nsk its not just that, its even more that the business does not and will not suddenly move at the speed of lines written. No amount of AI assist will help us escape the gravity of awful leadership, atrocious decision making, and incalculably detrimental overhead like AOP. Nike doesn't have a handle on the most basic things, without those being rock solid this is for nothing.
Despite what impossible financial goals reflect in the stock, Nike is making money hand over fist, more on a per employee basis than any company in the industry. These are just more pipedreams from ineffective leadership incapable of looking in the mirror to see what's holding us back.
Ask JL. The productivity numbers are from him.
Copilot is only useful if you think an engineer’s best quality is their typing speed.
Our ELT has wet dreams of using it to replace expensive engineers with cheap minimum wage kids. But I was hired to think, not copy-paste answers. Stackoverflow already exists and its answers are peer-reviewed by the world’s most toxic know-it-all community competing with themselves.
A huge portion of Nike’s current tech problems (out of control spend, inefficient solutions, messy logic) came from unqualified “engineers” blindly copy-pasting an answer without critical thought.
In the long term doing more of that will cost the company money
Can’t wait for my 30% bump in productivity.
Did the AI give that number or did the head nodders like you pull it from your a-s?
Someone doesn’t know what they are talking about. This is hysterical.