At work we will soon be getting access to agentic AI that parses through our gigantic code base and burns through money for very simple requests.
What would be the best way to maliciously comply with the management’s decision for AI usage to be an everyday thing you are expected to do without getting found out?
My idea is spamming the living shit out of the most expensive models for pointless tasks and then insisting that the result is wrong, and work in the meantime. Nobody can complain if my work is still good, but they will notice that the AI budget is not worth it and stop the hype train.
I remember seeing an article where workers had to write skill.md files for their specific domain knowledge. There was an AI tool that redacted the most specialized domain knowledge before turning in the skill.
Generally if the AI is an API and not on-prem you can find ways to leak huge amounts of data by sending it to the AI, etc.
Have the AI review its own work without pointing out particular problems you think are likely given your experience. In general give it as little context as possible, give vague instructions that could plausibly mean multiple things. Simple sabotage manual basically applies.