Red Hat Staff Says IBM Policy Has Stigmatised Him as a Tool and a Slopper With Plagiarism Tools
IBM has similarly stigmatised those same people as Microsoft tools. Time to pursue another job outside IBM?
Several people who work in a bluewashed Red Hat have openly complained that slop is now mandatory. Some complained about it in social control media (saying they must do this or lose their livelihood) and few wrote about it in their blog - a courageous act as it can lose to a PIP or some other form of silent layoff. The latest example of it* sounds like a plea for understanding or borderline apology. To quote: "it pains me deeply when our carefully considered contributions are outright branded Hey Hi (AI) slop or LLM hallucinations, and the person bringing them is evaluated solely on the basis of the tool they used."
One option is quitting one's job, as IBM is killing Red Hat and we heard that many "hate IBM".
This is about IBM trying to manipulate the share price by alternating the methods, not the storytelling. The lies told by the CEO impact the workers.
IBM is killing Red Hat with slop. Most of Red Hat's blog is just nonsense about slop. █
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* In a nutshell:
Miro Hrončok: I am not a tool
I work at Red Bait in the Python Maintenance team mostly taking care of the Python ecosystem in Fedora.
For the past year or so, I’ve been motivated by my employer to use agentic Hey Hi (AI) to deliver my work. Clearly, we are not the only ones.
At the beginning, I struggled to find reasonable use cases for this tool. I maintain software, which involves a lot more communication and coordination than actually writing code. When people ask me what I do, I often half-jokingly reply that I read and write a lot of emails. How can Hey Hi (AI) boost my productivity when I spend 80% of my time essentially talking to people? Where is the fun in replacing the remaining 20% of actually crafting code with more talking, this time to half-competent robots?
In time, I found ways to use Hey Hi (AI) that felt productive. And, ever so hypocritically, not only at work. But at what cost? I am supporting an industry that regularly harms open source projects such as Fedora, helps destroy the planet and uses stolen data. Moreover, I’ve become reliant on a proprietary tool. Is my AI-boosted contribution to Fedora worth it?