Banning AI will not make it go away
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Banning AI will not make it go away
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Re: Banning AI will not make it go away
#2> Whenever I find a use for AI, it so drastically cuts the time to accomplish tasks that I’m left wanting to do more with my (finally copious) free time!
I get what the author is trying to say but this does not match my experience nor does it match the employee productivity findings from AI adoption in enterprises.
Re: Banning AI will not make it go away
#3> Whenever I find a use for AI, it so drastically cuts the time to accomplish tasks that I’m left wanting to do more with my (finally copious) free time! I get what the author is trying to say but this does not match my experience nor does it match the employee productivity findings from AI adoption in enterprises.
the goal of proselytism is always the same -- to help the proselytizer convince themselves they are not the mark
Re: Banning AI will not make it go away
#4> Whenever I find a use for AI, it so drastically cuts the time to accomplish tasks that I’m left wanting to do more with my (finally copious) free time! I get what the author is trying to say but this does not match my experience nor does it match the employee productivity findings from AI adoption in enterprises.
Yeah, the hidden implication here is that they do not meaningfully review or design what the AI creates. Which is not actually an invalid AI use case, but it is highly misleading to leave it unstated.
(And of course there is the uncharitable alternative - that they are simply incompetent. But we don't actually need to go there.)
Re: Banning AI will not make it go away
#5> Whenever I find a use for AI, it so drastically cuts the time to accomplish tasks that I’m left wanting to do more with my (finally copious) free time! I get what the author is trying to say but this does not match my experience nor does it match the employee productivity findings from AI adoption in enterprises.
I was going to say that this surely depends on the type of work being done with AI but then a small dive into your HN profile shows you're working on SWE agents at Google?
I am struggling to reconcile your viewpoint with this but may have found the wrong profile!
Re: Banning AI will not make it go away
#6> Whenever I find a use for AI, it so drastically cuts the time to accomplish tasks that I’m left wanting to do more with my (finally copious) free time! I get what the author is trying to say but this does not match my experience nor does it match the employee productivity findings from AI adoption in enterprises.
In my experience, using chats merely as stack overflow replacement, e.g. for providing obscure API usage examples, is a huge time saver — otherwise I would’ve had to lurk around game engine sources, examples, comments, sometimes forum posts, etc. AI code reviews definitely help finding issues, especially when I work on something for more than a week and inevitably forgetting things.
Re: Banning AI will not make it go away
#7> Whenever I find a use for AI, it so drastically cuts the time to accomplish tasks that I’m left wanting to do more with my (finally copious) free time! I get what the author is trying to say but this does not match my experience nor does it match the employee productivity findings from AI adoption in enterprises.
In my experience, using chats merely as stack overflow replacement, e.g. for providing obscure API usage examples, is a huge time saver — otherwise I would’ve had to lurk around game engine sources, examples, comments, sometimes forum posts, etc. AI code reviews definitely help finding issues, especially when I work on something for more than a week and inevitably forgetting things.
This is true but it's completely negated when someone wastes my time asking them to review their AI slop wall of code, or when it actually goes live and blows up production.
Re: Banning AI will not make it go away
#8> Whenever I find a use for AI, it so drastically cuts the time to accomplish tasks that I’m left wanting to do more with my (finally copious) free time! I get what the author is trying to say but this does not match my experience nor does it match the employee productivity findings from AI adoption in enterprises.
I was going to say that this surely depends on the type of work being done with AI but then a small dive into your HN profile shows you're working on SWE agents at Google? I am struggling to reconcile your viewpoint with this but may have found the wrong profile!
It's possible to be frank about the misuse of AI in a lot of corporate settings today and also view it as a tool (or a step in tool development) that has the potential to be quite valuable.
Also, there are plenty of non-development related uses of AI that are genuinely valuable - document extraction and data repair are strong domains for application.
Re: Banning AI will not make it go away
#9> Whenever I find a use for AI, it so drastically cuts the time to accomplish tasks that I’m left wanting to do more with my (finally copious) free time! I get what the author is trying to say but this does not match my experience nor does it match the employee productivity findings from AI adoption in enterprises.
In my experience, using chats merely as stack overflow replacement, e.g. for providing obscure API usage examples, is a huge time saver — otherwise I would’ve had to lurk around game engine sources, examples, comments, sometimes forum posts, etc. AI code reviews definitely help finding issues, especially when I work on something for more than a week and inevitably forgetting things.
Yeah, AI works great for everyone in vacuum, but works for no one in a group.
Re: Banning AI will not make it go away
#10> Whenever I find a use for AI, it so drastically cuts the time to accomplish tasks that I’m left wanting to do more with my (finally copious) free time! I get what the author is trying to say but this does not match my experience nor does it match the employee productivity findings from AI adoption in enterprises.
In my experience, using chats merely as stack overflow replacement, e.g. for providing obscure API usage examples, is a huge time saver — otherwise I would’ve had to lurk around game engine sources, examples, comments, sometimes forum posts, etc. AI code reviews definitely help finding issues, especially when I work on something for more than a week and inevitably forgetting things.
This is my experience. It's a huge time saver for learning something that you would have had to previously Google or wade through multiple pages of documentation for, as long as you develop an intuition for when to fact-check it. It's a slightly less huge time saver for one-shotting simple functions/scripts ("write a function to download everything in a given time range from this paginated API and save it to files"), assuming you actually review what it outputs. But neither of those things are where most time is spent in software.