AI saves about 3% of your hours, and almost none of it reaches the money
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#3Saving time does not automatically translate into higher productivity, or even lower costs. That should be obvious?
In fact, I would argue the that with AI, companies should expect to spend more on average, without necessarily seeing any meaningful cost savings nor increase in profits.
That does not mean they can escape this though. It is just like paying for ads, backlinks etc.
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#4That study is a weird kind of bullshit which pretends to not understand employer-employee relationship.
Re: AI saves about 3% of your hours, and almost none of it reaches the money
#5A year ago AI wrote roughly 0% of my code and now it writes roughly 100%.
Which is to say any AI study from a year ago is fairly out of date with the speed of advancement.
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#6Read the first paragraph could tell it was AI written. Maybe if it was hand edited to be less AI I would have read more but it looked like the laziest Claude prose.
That'll be a no from me dawg.
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#7Just embarrassing to believe a study like this right now.
Re: AI saves about 3% of your hours, and almost none of it reaches the money
#8A year ago AI wrote roughly 0% of my code and now it writes roughly 100%. Which is to say any AI study from a year ago is fairly out of date with the speed of advancement.
The study is two months old (March 13, 2026).
Edit: Also, it's about writing not coding and it's point isn't that time isn't saved but even with time saved at the task, you don't get a broad decrease in total worked time for many/most workers.
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#9Calling bullshit on this.
The size of projects I've done in the past year compared to before is mind boggling. There is NO way I could have reached this level of productivity without a properly trained and properly prompted LLM.
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#10Saving time does not automatically translate into higher productivity, or even lower costs. That should be obvious? In fact, I would argue the that with AI, companies should expect to spend more on average, without necessarily seeing any meaningful cost savings nor increase in profits. That does not mean they can escape this though. It is just like paying for ads, backlinks etc.
In what sense is AI like paying for ads? In one case you legitimately lose to the competition if you stop (prisoner's dilemma). In other case, whether and how much you lose depends almost entirely on how much it actually impacts your productivity in practice (or not).
If you're referring to the public perception benefits (supposing those even exist, which isn't clear to me), then it seems easy to make a lot of noise via PR while doing the minimal amount internally to explore the use case and not actually push it as hard as you say.