In the current "big co" I'm working for it's a bit ridiculous.

While AI tools have been provided pretty quickly (over a year ago, I initially used gemini cli, then copilot once it added anthropic models) the management is absolutely clueless about it.

The top wants agents. Every team is asked few times a week "what autonomous agents will you build next" and answers the current AI lacks agency required not to mess up critical long running tasks and generate even more work are falling on deaf ears.

(also ideas such as, why don't we setup a wiki page were teams can post their repetitive tasks and we can use AI to script them, are considered "not fast enough" - just build it... but we are the automation team, we automated everything we do years ago :-)

Middle managers on the other hand suddenly started giving juniors senior's work and asking seniors "tell them (juniors) how to prompt it".

Seriously? How about I prompt it myself instead? Oh, but it makes a shit load of architectural errors and boobie traps the junior will fail to find... So now instead of a cursory glance I have to spend an hour reviewing a small PR from them.

And any questions about "why are you creating a new X for this instead of extending the existing one?" are met with blank panicked stares...

The essence of this BS is contained in my description of the recent "Copilot Review" incident.

We sometimes merge the same Github workflow files (10 line files) to dozens of repos, we have to obtain approvals for the PRs from a bunch of teams working in different timezones, but the merge has to be done everywhere at once and it has to be coordinated with other work.

As we were on a day of such task some "helpful hand" enabled Copilot PR reviews for the whole org.

Copilot helpfully opened 7 or 8 discussions on each PR giving us such precious advice as "your concurrency group uses the commit sha as a differentiating factor, this will allow multiple runs to proceed concurrently" to which one is tempted to answer "no shit sherlock".

We suddenly had almost 200 conversations to "resolve" an hour before the merge and a bunch of approvers didn't give their approvals because "there is a discussion".

Thankfully we had copilot that wrote us a script in 5 minutes to resolve the problem caused by itself...

Maybe our next overnight agent can go over all our open PRs and close Copilot Review conversations with appropriate messages?

When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing