• ch00f@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    Everyone boosting AI use acts like it’s this little secret that only they know about.

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      8 hours ago

      I use AI everyday for software development. It’s soul sucking and saps any satisfaction from completing anything but you can’t put the genie back in the lamp so here we are.

      I have had multiple discussions with non technical people who are on both sides of this image. They sit there talking about how it makes it easier to do the various parts of their job without irony. I just blink back thinking “you are describing a meat proxy”. If you are just copy pasting emails from one UI to another why do they need you?

      The anti AI people like to pretend that it’s ineffective but there are a large number of people in the middle of the org chart whose job is basically summarizing PowerPoints from below and then pass up. AI can definitely do that and even if it’s inefficient it’s fast and doesn’t need benefits and healthcare.

      Those people are going to get fucked.

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        7 hours ago

        there are a large number of people in the middle of the org chart whose job is basically summarizing PowerPoints from below and then pass up.

        Middle management?

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_management

        Middle management is the intermediate management level of a hierarchical organization that is subordinate to the executive management and responsible for “team leading” line managers and/or “specialist” line managers. Middle management is indirectly (through line management) responsible for junior staff performance and productivity.[1]

        Strategic functions involve analyzing a subordinate group in terms of productivity and financial effectiveness, creating a strategy of improving the current situation and reporting to the executive management in the form of attending a boardroom meeting or a discussion.

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      12 hours ago

      Yep. I think about it like having a time machine that could go back and change the future, or a printer that outputs perfect money dollars. Would be super useful, but only if somehow you alone, no one else, had the same technology. If everyone has it, it’s just chaos and everything sucks.

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      11 hours ago

      There are job “cheats” that are efficient - ways to save time that don’t affect work product.

      And then there are “cheats” that just push the work to someone else, because some people will gladly save five minutes for themselves even if it creates an hour of work for someone else.

      So yes, the latter people are the ones driving workplace AI adoption, as their “little productivity secret.”