Comment on 77% Of Employees Report AI Has Increased Workloads And Hampered Productivity, Study Finds
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 3 months ago
If used correctly, AI can be helpful and can assist in easy and menial tasks
It also helps you getting a starting point when you don’t know how ask a search engine the right question.
But people misinterpret its usefulness and think It can handle complex and context heavy problems, which must of the time will result in hallucinated crap.
And are those use cases common and publicized? Because I see it being advertised as “improves productivity” for a novel tool with myriad uses I expect those trying to sell it to me to give me some vignettes and not to just tell my boss it’ll improve my productivity. And if I was in management I’d want to know how it’ll do that beyond just saying “it’ll assist in easy and menial tasks”. Will it be easier than doing them? Many tools can improve efficiency on a task at a similar time and energy investment to the return. Are those tasks really so common? Will other tools be worse?
Well yes, but it’s not often I encounter an easy or menial task for which AI is the best solution.
For example, searching documentation us usually more informative than asking a bot trained on said documentation.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 3 months ago
I mean if it’s easy you can probably script it with some other tool.
“I have a list of IDs and need to make them links to our internal tool’s pages” is easy and doesn’t need AI. That’s something a product guy was struggling with and I solved in like 30 seconds with a Google sheet and concatenation
silasmariner@programming.dev 3 months ago
Yeah but the idea of AI in that kind of workflow is so that the product guy can actually do it themselves without asking you and in less than 30 mins
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 3 months ago
Yeah but that’s like using an entire gasoline powered car to play a CD.
Competent product guy should be able to learn some simpler tools like Google sheets.
silasmariner@programming.dev 3 months ago
No arguments from me that it’s better if people are just better at their job, and I like to think I’m good at mine too, but let’s be real - a lot of people are out of their depth and I can imagine it can help there. OTOH is it worth the investment in time (from people who could themselves presumably be doing astonishing things) and carbon energy? Probably not. I appreciate that the tech exists and it needs to, but shoehorning it in everywhere is clearly bollocks. I just don’t know yet how people will find it useful and I guess not everyone gets that spending an hour learning to do something that takes 10s when you know how is often better than spending 5 mins making someone or something else do it for you… And TBF to them, they might be right if they only ever do the thing twice.