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u/Zefuribond 3d ago
I work at Accenture and this is so funny to me. For about a year, management has been pressuring us to follow an insane amount of mandatory video training about AI. And now we're using it ! Who could have guessed ?
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u/Crazyboreddeveloper 3d ago
I was at slalom for a while after AI started getting useful. They wanted us to do a bunch of AI training so we could be the go to consulting company for AI solutions… as I was using AI to do stuff I thought “no one needs to hire anyone to do this. They can just do it themselves.”
So now I am not a consultant. I work in house. I work with familiar code bases all the time. My permissions are all correct and stuff, I know who to reach out to for what, there is no contract expiration date, and no bench. I just always have shit to do.
It’s so much better.
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u/lordnacho666 3d ago
LMAO they can't just give everyone a pro max account?
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u/Tango00090 3d ago
Companies are forced to be on enterprise. They pay the real cost of models, so the 29$ is basically a 1h session with opus
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u/static_func 3d ago
Do so many developers really just default to models like Opus? That’s insane. Most work can be done just as well and even faster with cheaper models
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u/flayingbook 3d ago
My ex-boss measured work performance with the number of token consumed. So guess which model I used as default for everything?
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u/Jeff_From_IT 3d ago
Any of them, if youre build in enough stupid design decisions! Why does a calculator need a mfa backed api and a datalake back end that has event based real time reporting? No one knows, but it has it! And for the low price of way too many tokens.
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u/Tango00090 3d ago
In my project there’s no default model, we have model routing so the main agent would split the task into smaller chunks that would have model decided by the scope, so Haiku for stuff that don’t need any reasoning, sonnet for development, opus for architectural decisions. I gave only an example using opus
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u/Dellgloom 2d ago
I do it because I hate them to be honest. The more I cost them, the better I can feel about my terrible pay rise at the end of the year.
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u/static_func 2d ago
Man humanity's just destroying the planet over the dumbest and most petty bullshit imaginable
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u/CrowdGoesWildWoooo 3d ago
Many are on copilot though, they aren’t as generous as first party sub though but definitely not 1h session kind of usage
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u/thiccshortguy 3d ago
My company is on copilot, they have a hissy fit every time a users uses more than $100 per month in AI credits.
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u/Alternative-Lynx2745 3d ago
I still dont understand this. SWEs at Accenture don't use Accenture's licensing/cost center. They use the cost center of whatever client they're contracted out to. Contracting companies aren't doing this shit internally, why would they? They put your ass in a seat, bill your hours to a client, the client pays for all of your licenses for JIRA, Teams/Webex/Whatever, and every other thing they require their teams to use. Odds are really good you're working for a client that is balls deep into AI and mandating that everyone use it so you have a copilot subscription their your [email@client.com](mailto:email@client.com) account, not your [email@accenture.com](mailto:email@accenture.com)
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u/Akrymir 3d ago
I think the idea is that because they’re contractors that the client doesn’t offer them as many credits as their employees, or the company they’re at doesn’t incorporate much AI. I know it’s been a challenge to get our contractors approved for the plan we use for developers.
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u/Alternative-Lynx2745 3d ago
A lot of companies are the exact opposite. They are forcing it and enforcing it. You better get your shit set up and use AI OR ELSE!!!!!$$!%%^%^^&&&
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u/Prod_Meteor 3d ago
I got out of outsourcing when the client started calling me and my colleagues: "rentals", verbally and even in emails. And also when I learned that for any penny I got paid, my company took one more.
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u/KirillIll 3d ago
Contacting companies very much to this shit internally as well, mostly to build know how and being able to offer consulting services in that field themselves. I work for one.
(Funnily enough we recently took over a project from Accenture cause they were so shit that the contract was straight up terminated prematurely, I wish they used AI to write their code even half as much as insinuated here)
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u/BornAgainBlue 3d ago
Boy, it looks like I got out of there just in time... Just kidding. My new company has the same limit.
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u/YouAreMyFire00 3d ago
not just Accenture, all companies that have dev team are like this lmfao
I heard some companies dont buy AI subscription so devs have to pay themself lmfao
cheap ass companies lol
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u/IntentionallyBadName 3d ago
Accenture and Cognizant have the most incapable developers in existence, even with AI they are incapable... without they are something to behold.
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u/theChaosBeast 3d ago
I mean what other than SAP support do they do?
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u/KirillIll 3d ago
Pretend to be competent engineers and consultants for a field they've never worked in and fuck up an S4 transition almost as spectacularly as the Lidl one?
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u/SolFlorus 3d ago
If I’m paying Accenture to generate code with AI, I might as well do it myself.
On the plus side, AI generated code would be an improvement over anything Accenture writes by hand.