Is it common for middle managers to manage a git repository without having any computer science skills?I met a middle manager at a big fintech company at my christmas party who said was using AI to help doing pull requests and vibe code. They have over 80 developers.When I asked that person how they were judging whether a pull request was worth approving or not, they said they were using at least 5 AI agents to review the code for them. Is that sort of practice a common occurrence? It seems somewhat dodgy.
>gifting your proprietary code to AI companies to train off of
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>>107672216While not super likely, it could theoretically be local AI.
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>>107672200My manager has started to heavily use AI. So far he's restrained himself to(a) Vibe coding prototypes of the frontend for new pages, as reference for how they should look and behave. This has actually been helpful since the results are more detailed and realistic compared to creating a mockup sketch in powerpoint.(b) Asking AI for an opinion on some technical decision we've been debating and pasting it into an email. This isn't helpful at all and I wish he'd stop. I sometimes find myself in the perverse position of needing to reply to the AI's nonsense point-by-point for his benefit.So far he's left the actual codebase alone but I'm worried that could change soon.
