This is exactly why I cannot use AI for any part of my job: what I do has to work. People who gleefully embrace AI are just signaling that what they do is superfluous enough that a fancy autocorrect could do it. This is why so many middle managers and executives love it.
I had to sit and watch as a manager for where I work used chaptGPT in a meeting to "create" a text reply because they didn't feel like manually creating their response. I have to hear about all these leads, managers and co-workers are using AI to "help" them do their jobs or just in general life.
Since eyes are on this I'll expand: My workplace also implemented an AI Chatbot for the purpose of answering general customer questions to reduce our call volume. It did, then they started wondering why we weren't getting more products from members (this is a different issue I have)
So yeah, I definitely feel the original posts. I fucking hate generative AI, always will.
If neither of you has read David Graeber's book Bullshit Jobs, I highly recommend it. You'll learn a lot that you already know intuitively- and a lot more besides.
I believe this was also one of the arguments in Utopia for Realists: rather a lot of the kind of work that gets done doesn’t actually need to be.
I haven’t read it, but I’m very familiar with the concepts.
I regret that I have but one Like to give for this post. If what we build doesn't work, it reflects badly on us. Not "AI." It costs us reputation (read: money), maybe even lives.
Yeah, having all of the accountability is just wonderful, isn’t it.
Yes! Because then the folks who suck don't make millions