My employer PoC'd, collaborated with and eventually bought Codeium's solution

> As everything, now AI is losing hype, but somehow (in my bubble) seems like engineers are still high on it. But I also see that this will distill further the set of people who I look up to and want to collaborate with, because e of that mentioned humbleness, as opposed to just accepting text predicted solutions mindlessly. It is dotcom bust again. Mainstream is losing interest but at the same time I see our internal chatbots / ai agents doing hockey stick growth and I am using several hours code pilot daily.

I think we need to be very careful making blanket statements about the usefulness of certain LLMs. In my experience for every task another LLM is excelling and where one was good it might fail for the other task. They can do great things, but it’s not guaranteed and a lot of manual intervention and back and forth is still needed. We are not at the point where using AI in the company ist just a blanket win for everyone involved. Companies are investing a lot but the return is hard to measure and not always guaranteed. This is the problem with early technologies, they work sometimes but not guaranteed and we build our expectations on extrapolating their usefulness. We should not judge this technology by the current success rate, but rather by how much impact it will have once we get the success rate to higher and higher levels. Still, what we can say is that for certain occupations it alre…