"[A] recent survey of 5,000 white-collar US workers found that 40% of non-managers say AI saves them no time at all at work, while 92% of high-level executives say it makes them more productive."
Good insight into which jobs can be safely automated.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/14/ai-productivity-workplace-errors
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The process of fixing LLM slop is literally users training LLMs to produce less slop--and to get better at duplicating the work of the workers they are designed to replace.
Eventually, LLMs will reach a point where slop decreases to the point where the worker *can* be replaced.
THAT is why mgmt is pushing their use so hard. They need you to keep training your replacement.
Yes I agree that is the goal. But as time goes by and new releases are released with minimal improvement, I am less and less confident that these things can ever be trusted to actually replace a human agent.
They are not thinking machines and that is becoming more clear by the day.
Useful tools for sure, but IMO there is zero chance any big corp will trust an LLM to give direction on anything they may be held accountable for.
"... zero chance any big corp will trust an LLM to give direction on anything they may be held accountable for."
They already have done just that:
1) Matthew and Maria Raine scandal
2)Replit AI wiped production database
3)Grok assisting in planning home invasion of Will Stancil
there's many more. BUT! AI is *also* being used as the "fallguy" by these corps, which is the point too--offloading corp responsibility for the heinous things their AI does with a "whoopsie".
Its true they have been and are in use, and the corps are getting burned as a result. Air Canada tried it and has since backed away since the courts told them they had to honour whatever the stupid chatbot told the customer. Quite hilarious really.
@stefan i would like this to be true — i suspect it is true — but:
> 40% of non-managers say AI saves them no time at all at work
that means 60%, the majority, *don't* say that.
unless 20% of them were "don't know", the majority think it does save them time…
@fishidwardrobe Well, if you look at the actual study:
The time saved per day is not that much?
Plus, this is all self-reported.
"How much time do you think you are saving"
It's possible a deeper analysis would reveal the same results as another study:
"Many developers say AI coding assistants make them more productive, but a recent study set forth to measure their output and found no significant gains."
https://www.cio.com/article/3540579/devs-gaining-little-if-anything-from-ai-coding-assistants.html
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