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At multiple companies I've worked for, we've always had a janky local set up. It's always near impossible to set up local dev and we've had an entire developer tools team supporting the hacky in house tool. Wondering if anyone uses purely cloud based or third party hosted dev environments and how the experience is?

Seeing a lot of shocking things where upper management, from engineering managers and above who haven't written code or actually built things in years get completely swallowed by AI hype in a bad way.

Some examples:

Engineer says there's a problem or something won't work, and manager+ role uses Cursor to double check there work and proposes some slop solution that AI comes up with. This wastes engineers time by having to sift through this for no reason. It also erodes trust that engineers feel from higher ups, who convey that they who haven't coded + Cursor can do a better job than people coding in the trenches day in and day out.

Other example, engineers say they need a few days to dig into an old codebase/repo to understand some things. Higher up says you can just use Cursor and understand it in an hour(which is never the case since LLMs have no tribal/business context on things).

Wondering if others have seen or experienced the same thing. I think this would make for really bad engineering cultures for teams

I'm wondering if anyone is actually using LLMs to process documents reliably in production. One hallucination could lead to a host of issues. For example, if someone is using LLMs to process documents and enter data into an ERP, if even one number is off it could cause accounting issues, inventory issues etc. Human in the loop doesn't help because the human would just have to read the document themselves to ensure accuracy, defeating the point of the automation.