You said to use AI, you didn’t say to use it well

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Jellyfish

27 episodes

3 months ago

Is bringing up your software engineering salary a dating red flag? How do you strike a balance between career ambition and incendiary burnout? Is it ever okay to hold your code hostage in escrow? Navigating a career in tech raises a lot of tricky questions that aren’t exactly appropriate for the daily stand-up. So let’s take this off the VPN. In this new podcast from Jellyfish, work besties Jasmine and Allison scour the internet to find the real questions engineers and developers are whispering over drinks and posting about anonymously. Together, they’ll tackle the most troubling of inquiries with authenticity, humor, and absolutely no holding back.

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You said to use AI, you didn’t say to use it well

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26 minutes

4 months ago

You said to use AI, you didn’t say to use it well

Ever looked at a pull request and thought…welp.

Meet Raj, a tech lead just trying to do his job, until his team is buried under an avalanche of AI-generated chaos. We’re talking 10,000-line PRs, hallucinated services, broken tests, and a very real security scare. All in the name of speed?

This episode is for anyone who has watched AI tools get tossed into engineering orgs with zero training, no guardrails, and that faster is always better.

Come on, we’re better than “just add AI.”

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