@e2 Sonar isn't using AI to determine cognitive complexity, that's a metric that has existed long before AI and is pretty simple enough to calculate via counting nested branches/loops. And imo, cognitive complexity isn't a metric that should be followed to a T. Some logic is just going to be pretty complex, and breaking it down into 'helper functions' that only gets used by that single bit of code doesn't make your sh-t any more readable. Just dismiss that sh-t.
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Checkmarx is another waste of time.
The C-suite is composed of daddy's boys who are supported by the "nerds" who do their homework for them.
With AI, they think they can replace the nerds with a non-human magic machine that won't hold them accountable for their dogshit decision making.
That way they can say, "See! It was me all along!"
Good luck with that.
Here's a small example.
We're understaffed so we use the IDE integrated CoPilot to refactor a class. Then the GitHub CoPilot code review complains about it and SonarQube's AI flags it for "Cognitive Complexity" being too high. So, you go back to the IDE and tell it to d-mb it down to get you past the SonarQube check. You let Copilot make the code worse, it gets through the SonarQube check, and then you find in dev testing that something no longer works right. You go back and forth like that all day for small change that isn't worth using AI for. But it looks good on your AI usage stats.
Insider trading, opaque, ghouls who have been in the C suite, advisory roles, and board since before the Great Recession ruined it long before then. They are the ones who invited the AI 10000000000X clown and friends in.
Mandating AI usage is easy. Using it to actually solve meaningful problems is harder. That requires real understanding of the day to day work and visibility into how things actually function. The real opportunity with AI isn’t how often it’s used, it’s how well it’s applied to the problems right in front of us. When you centralize tech and remove teams from the business areas they support or the place of service, you lose that day to day visibility.
When they publish AI Bites with a couple 20yr Olds chatting like Stefon from Saturday Night Live.. ugh
What, you dont like watching someone completeltly bo-b a demo of an AI product in front of hundreds of people, then try to pivot to showing a pre recorded video?
Saw that first hand in UHCT org.
The lack of quality control on some of these learning sessions and demos are alarming. If it were high school, some of these presenters would be receiving a failing grade
But since our leaders are incompetent, not paying attention, and only care about the stock price, they are content to let garbage be pushed into prod en masse.
Pay no mind to the massive mainframe p1 issues that impacted the enterprise last week and cost millions of dollars! Offshore will handle it!
YES!