A Harvard Business Review study is answering the question ‘what will employees do if AI saves them time at work?’ The answer: more work.
Ah classic “here’s a tool to make your job easier. But don’t think it will make you work less, it will just give us more money” (if ai even makes it easier)
I don’t know if this is true but I once read that people expected the cotton gin to improve slaves’ conditions because that part of the process was incredibly labor-intensive, so it would be saving them work. Instead it made cotton farming more profitable and boosted slave ownership. ☹️
And at lower quality with more errors of higher severity. Yay.
Sadly its true. In my previous company, the CEO asked a web developer to start a project in another framework and when she said she needs at least 1-2 weeks studying the new framework, the CEO responded, “just use ChatGPT and try to do the project in 10 days”.
I heard a similar story from a friend of mine, that the c-levels at his office only wanted to achieve faster development rather than proper development. And he was worried because the system built by the devs team had become bigger and complex, and he didn’t know how to track down bugs in the source code.
Work or “work”? I ask because my company also heavily encourages AI use, so I slap together a prompt and walk away from the machine while it defecates. A lot of it is garbage, but I don’t spend much time doing manual refinement because they clearly can’t distinguish quality if they’re demanding slop. I adjust the output only enough to pass the requirements.
That’s exactly what I would say if I owned an LLM or LLM adjacent company
Sounds like what Amazon probably tells their employees to do.
They’re using AI inefficiently, then. I use it to get a lot done in very short bursts through the day, and spend longer bursts fucking off in between.
EDIT: imagine being so brainrotted that you think it’s bad to use AI to reclaim more of your day from your wage slavers.
How are you reclaiming more of your day? The wage slavers want you on the office 9 to 7 regardless of how much job you “save” in the meantime. Don’t you want the office to look living and used? Think of the shareholders’s investment on the office space!
I’ve fooled them into thinking I’m so studious and productive, that I’m only required to spend 4 hours in office, 4 days a week. A good chunk of that time is spent chatting with people I enjoy chatting with over coffee. I’m also naturally reclusive, so the requirement of getting out of the house has a positive impact on my life, regardless of the setting.
EDIT: I’m playing 4D chess over here while all you downvoters are 2D nut-tapping each other.
This is the way
