Michelle Porche2d ago
Baldur Bjarnason

“Appearing Productive in The Workplace — No One's Happy”

https://nooneshappy.com/article/appearing-productive-in-the-workplace/

> Generative AI can produce work that looks expert without being expert, and the failure arrives in two shapes. The first is when novices in a field are able to produce work that resembles what their seniors produce, faster or more advanced than their judgment. The second is when people generate artifacts in disciplines they were never trained in. The two failures look similar from a distance and are not the same

Appearing Productive in The Workplace — No One's Happy

AI can produce work that looks expert without being expert. The failure arrives in two shapes, and both are reshaping the workplace.

No One's Happy
May 28 at 9:44amWeb
Show threadcommonst2d ago

@baldur as a non-coder in a tech company, I am noticing more and more meetings where I walk away literally having no idea what the meeting was about. Or emails from oddly named departments that I can't figure out why I was on the list or what I need to take away from it.

I have an English degree and have worked in more than a few large corporations in my time, so it's not my comprehension or lack of experience. I am more and more convinced that using AI to help with writing is resulting in content that sounds impressive but says absolutely nothing of value. And we have to spend our time on this because it is coming from higher up. This is also exhausting, and something I am seeing surprisingly little discussion about as it effects everyone in a company, coder or no.

Show threadpetur 😶🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼2d ago

@baldur "The tool has given them the experience of building something, and the experience feels like expertise."

(I have to deal with an electronics guy who is generating code faster than I can review and this is not going to end well)