I really don’t understand why AI usage is mandatory for roles. Nobody’s doing anything like that for other productivity tools even when they’re proven to be helpful. Hell, a lot of employers can’t be bothered to provide basics like nice keyboards and monitors that exceed 1080p.
The current era of tech has way too many corporate losers.
Isn't mandating IDE usage a perfectly reasonable and common thing?
It's a productivity tool after all.
No mention of how this was measured.
I'm very skeptical on this because I know there is competing research suggesting AI use makes tasks take longer but feel less burdensome. Also, you'd need to account for regression rate over time. Also, you'd need to ensure your methodology is correct. It's not trivial and great claims require great responsibility.
…unless they have something to show, specifically?
Demos? Code? Details?
Nothing?
- generic advice heading 1
- generic advice content
- generic advice heading 2
- provide better tools
You know how thats the kind of response that you copy paste in a slack message and your co worker is like “If I wanted an AI summary Id have done it myself. I was asking why…”
Yeah. …yeah.
Could you be less generic about the process you went through?
What tools do you use? How did you get past the critics?
Are you 90% “uses AI for 50% of coding” or 90% “codes via claude code”?
More AI coding, no extra incidents? How are you measuring that?
The post under this one on your blog is literally called:
> HubSpot Incident Report: August 7th 2025
Come onnnnn~
HubSpot was very big on pushing companies to publish lots of content like blog posts and then having calls to action for people to submit their info in exchange for a whitepaper download or similar. Predictably if your main goal is to consistently publish blog posts and whitepapers to generate leads, and you don't have a strong culture of quality and good writing, it's going to lead to lots of slop (even before you could automate writing it with AI).
That being said, I'm not sure how much to blame HubSpot vs. this just generally having been a marketing approach/idea that was "in the air" while it sort of worked (for some definition of "worked").
z0r•1h ago
Esophagus4•1h ago
I also remember thinking “this guy kind of seems like a self-impressed jerk,” while reading it.
Not that HubSpot didn’t earn their portrayal as a hype-driven business run by clowns, but the author lost me when he described himself getting into a passive aggressive Facebook comments argument with coworkers as an indication of how stupid they were… when all I could think was “you’re all idiots, cut the FB drama and get back to work.”
It seemed like he was kind of looking for a fight the whole time. Like… if you’re shocked a marketing tech startup runs differently than a newsroom, that’s on you.
dorkrawk•45m ago