Workers are spending over 6 hours a week botsitting AI, fueling job frustration
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Re: Workers are spending over 6 hours a week botsitting AI, fueling job frustration
#2I could care less about bot sitting (haven’t we always written our own automation?), but it’s botsitting the unverified slop that people send you that fuels frustration. I thought I worked with competent people who respected me
Re: Workers are spending over 6 hours a week botsitting AI, fueling job frustration
#3I could care less about bot sitting (haven’t we always written our own automation?), but it’s botsitting the unverified slop that people send you that fuels frustration. I thought I worked with competent people who respected me
Our product lead/manager recently sent me an AI generated PRD (complete with a Claude Code spec!) to build a core feature which we have had for over 2 years (and is a highly used core feature by our customers).
I just can't imagine tanking my trust with my coworkers by doing something like that.
Re: Workers are spending over 6 hours a week botsitting AI, fueling job frustration
#4I could care less about bot sitting (haven’t we always written our own automation?), but it’s botsitting the unverified slop that people send you that fuels frustration. I thought I worked with competent people who respected me
*couldn’t care less
Re: Workers are spending over 6 hours a week botsitting AI, fueling job frustration
#5Understanding what is going on with AI productivity is … frustrating to say the least.
The best I can say is that genAI is a self reported a 20% efficiency boost, and for a very (very) small group of people, it’s maybe a 2-3x boost. (And if you are at a frontier lab, you go fly into the big bucket of exceptions)
At this point, for most use cases, AI productivity is either the equivalent of giving people 3D printers, and seeing little benefit, or signing up for an outsourcing service, just without the development of human capital anywhere.
Re: Workers are spending over 6 hours a week botsitting AI, fueling job frustration
#6“the incredible ground-level utility that many of us on HN celebrate every day through undeniable, massive productivity gains”
I’ve been told before.
Re: Workers are spending over 6 hours a week botsitting AI, fueling job frustration
#76 hours a week is low, unless its the average spread across industries. I think I spend more time in Claude Code via the CLI versus any other app I have on my laptop.
Like others said, the frustration is when it gets something so wrong you just think "wow, how'd you mess that up?" but when it gets it right its kind of nice. I also dont like that I basically tell Claude what to do, and then either go to busy work or waste time on the internet.
Re: Workers are spending over 6 hours a week botsitting AI, fueling job frustration
#8Understanding what is going on with AI productivity is … frustrating to say the least. The best I can say is that genAI is a self reported a 20% efficiency boost, and for a very (very) small group of people, it’s maybe a 2-3x boost. (And if you are at a frontier lab, you go fly into the big bucket of exceptions) At this point, for most use cases, AI productivity is either the equivalent of giving people 3D printers,…
I think it depends on how you measure the boost. If you are talking about generating a first draft then yes, the boost is there. If you’re talking about completing the project in all well tested and architected aspects, then overall there really isn’t a boost.
6 hours of debugging and docs reading is not equal to 6 hours of prompt fiddling. The return of value beyond the few fixes applied will be almost nil from the fiddling.
Re: Workers are spending over 6 hours a week botsitting AI, fueling job frustration
#9I could care less about bot sitting (haven’t we always written our own automation?), but it’s botsitting the unverified slop that people send you that fuels frustration. I thought I worked with competent people who respected me
It's not a lack of respect for you; it's a lack of respect for the work itself. That lack is being rewarded and encouraged.
Managers will be sure to tell you how much they respect you. Ask them if they respect the work and you'll get a blank stare.
Re: Workers are spending over 6 hours a week botsitting AI, fueling job frustration
#10I could care less about bot sitting (haven’t we always written our own automation?), but it’s botsitting the unverified slop that people send you that fuels frustration. I thought I worked with competent people who respected me
Our product lead/manager recently sent me an AI generated PRD (complete with a Claude Code spec!) to build a core feature which we have had for over 2 years (and is a highly used core feature by our customers). I just can't imagine tanking my trust with my coworkers by doing something like that.
Maybe this is the AI layoff wave we'll see. Sorting out incompetent team members.