Over the last couple of years the tech story has been AI everywhere: rumour had it that when people submitted proposals for Dreamforce talks, they basically got replies asking for “more AI” regardless of the topic. It’s rather annoying.

I had to sit through a dozen hours of corporate AI training the other day, a lot of which was focused on code: using AI to generate Python methods and SQL queries of such simplicity they barely represent real world examples.

As it turns out, in the real world, according to CIO magazine, the perks of this may be significantly less advantageous than the hype would have you believe. Go figure.

Use AI as an assistant, sure. It might help when you’re stuck but if you lean too heavily on it you should expect to spend a lot of time fixing problems. My first clear run in with this has AI generate a snippet of Salesforce code which, as soon as it was entered, was impossible to run: a thing I’d said several times.

Will the revolution come? Maybe. Is it here? No.