To management, I say "I use AI techniques to ___". It's just my shell scripts from 2001 that still run perfectly everyday. I don't tell them that AI in that sentence actually stands for already implemented.
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This is the way.
You should actually tell management that AI sucks and Actually Implemented actually work all the time reliability.
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Clearly the best form of AI that exists!
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@fesshole 😂 I'm going to use those same AI techniques from now on!
Jun 11, 2026, 12:30 PM@fesshole Just yesterday my manager commended me on my usage of AI to write a management summary. The thing is I didn't use any AI. I just wrote something really quick in 5 minutes and that was that.
@flamecat @fesshole I usually write my meeting notes in a reply-to-all email that I draft during the meeting, on the screen I’m sharing.
While writing, I ask the participants repeatedly whether a given sentence of my summary is correct. The meeting ends, I hit “send”, we’re done.
That’s a lot quicker than checking a lengthy LLM output for correctness, while desperately trying to hold on to my memory of what we actually discussed.
@fesshole Remembers me as a colleague found a shell script as work around many years after I was fired, and thought the problem was fixed by the devs. I just covered the default error messages and run automatic fixes. This was many years "magic" until they figured out I was just tired and lazy to do the same fixes every day. Would sell it as AI and burn company money for this.
@fesshole - Right on I give you a hand shake.
@fesshole Yesss! Brilliant. It was a pleasure to read this.
@fesshole AI - Already Implemented
LLM - Local Linux Machine
GPT - Good Practices and Techniques
Claude - Name of the other sysadmin
Gemini - Praying to the stars that this still works tomorrow
@fesshole after the whole Amazon AI shop, Weimo and other kerfuffles, I’m pretty sure AI stands for Asian Intelligence;)
I use AI all of the time. Actual Intelligence.
@fesshole IME this is a surprisingly large part of the AI industry
Jun 13, 2026, 8:42 PM@fesshole I'm willing to pretend to use "AI" as long as clients don't pretend to pay.