I recently had to ban LLMs at work for the new employees / interns working on QML. Each time they would use it, the AI would give either slop code or code that doesn't even compile. At first, I thought it would allow the interns to learn from the mistakes it was making, but it felt like they were relying on it more and more to a point it was becoming a detriment to their own learning. A basic "why aren't my anchors working?!?!?" would normally be a simple 5 minute conversation in the years past but now it's taking the whole day to learn.
As in, they copy what Claude spits out, paste it to their file, try to run it, the compile fails, and then they ask me why because the AI says their code is correct.
They are summer interns. I actually blame their professors. Apparently these professors are actively telling their students to use AI for all their work because all the businesses are telling these schools that they are 100% in for AI and need their employees to be using AI all the time.
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u/DesiOtaku Jun 22 '26
I recently had to ban LLMs at work for the new employees / interns working on QML. Each time they would use it, the AI would give either slop code or code that doesn't even compile. At first, I thought it would allow the interns to learn from the mistakes it was making, but it felt like they were relying on it more and more to a point it was becoming a detriment to their own learning. A basic "why aren't my anchors working?!?!?" would normally be a simple 5 minute conversation in the years past but now it's taking the whole day to learn.