Thank you, I wholeheartedly agree. AI for the sake of AI is just pleasing shareholders, and it just feels wrong to call that out as the solution when there are actual engineering avenues that can be explored. At the same time, I feel like it would be burning a bridge if I tried to hold my ground and disagree with the PE. The PE is not my manager (and is not the only PE), but there are also not very many engineers held to that standard in my company. I don’t want to be remembered as the guy that called the PE out on poorly conceived feedback.

You know, there is probably some salt to this. There was one part of my doc where his comment felt somewhat defensive. Thanks for your perspective!

Honestly it was even before the Nazi salute. Dude went down the ketamine and red pill rabbit hole years before that and lost a lot of his left-leaning fanboys. It became super obvious at that point that he was just another sociopathic nepo baby grifter.

I 100% agree. To me it sort of feels like that old “Let me Google that for you” website. Like I wouldn’t have asked you something if I wanted you to just prompt ChatGPT. I want your informed opinion. But I guess informed opinions are hard to come by these days.

Yep, take a look into GitHub actions. Basically you can make it so that a specific set of tests are run every time a PR is opened against your code repo. In the background it just spins up a container and runs any commands you define in a YAML config file.