Wil Reynolds
Casey NewtonA survey found that two-thirds of employees say AI saved them zero to two hours a week, while it saved their bosses eight hours. What gives? https://www.platformer.news/ai-productivity-paradox-metr-pwc-workday/
Richard Paul@caseynewton Hey Casey, why aren’t you posting this from the Forkiverse? Is there something the rest of us should know?
@Spacehistory i am posting everywhere i promise!!
Brian Tatosky@caseynewton When you don't care about the quality of what you are doing, it can save you *tons* of time.
SupermoosieExecutives, who spend their time writing long reports and documents to each other, which noneone ever reads* or understands. Often based on their own reality.
Perfect for so called "AI"
Workers, not so much.
*Except for when the shit hits the fan. By then they are long gone.
AJ Sadauskas@SuperMoosie @caseynewton Here's a rule of thumb: The more of your job involves regurgitating things off the internet or rephrasing things in corporate speak, the more it can be done by LLMs.
Conversely, the more your job involves skilled manual labour, or interacting with customers or providing a service to customers, or dealing with obsolete core business systems that can't interface with LLMs, the less useful LLMs will be.
Conversely, the more your job involves skilled manual labour, or interacting with customers or providing a service to customers, or dealing with obsolete core business systems that can't interface with LLMs, the less useful LLMs will be.
Bruce Elrick@SuperMoosie @caseynewton
Did executives *ever* write or read long reports?
There's a reason why that one paragraph at the beginning of a long report (written by people who know what they are talking about) is called an executive summary.
Now they can summarize a dozen executive summaries using AI!
OnlyMe@SuperMoosie @caseynewton I just assume that the 1st exec starts with a list of bullets, and uses AI to make it a long report. Then the 2nd exec uses AI to summarise the report to a list of bullets.
…and that the two bullet lists are possibly vaguely similar, but likely different enough to be a problem
The skill in report writing, is writing it so the arguments and the conclusion reaches the conclusion you wanted. Despite what the evidence says.
Marin Todorov@caseynewton "40 percent say they would be fine “never using AI again" - people made to use AI are really getting radicalized 😆
@icanzilb they are!!
Andy Cameron@caseynewton This line really hit home for me: “feeling productive and being productive are two different things.”
I’d also suggest a variant that replaces “feeling” with “appearing.”
I’d also suggest a variant that replaces “feeling” with “appearing.”
Tokind@caseynewton And you would think that this is a clear signal about who's jobs will be replaced first, but they do not see themselves as disposable. Middle management WILL be the first to go.