Stop saying AI makes us work longer

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Post by fernvenue » Mon, Aug 04, 2025, 8:31 PM UTC

Stop saying AI makes us work longer
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Re: Stop saying AI makes us work longer

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Post by rogerkirkness » Mon, Aug 04, 2025, 8:46 PM UTC

The whole idea is for people to work on things that are interesting and valuable to customers at the same time. AI is for things that are valuable to customers but not interesting to work on.

Re: Stop saying AI makes us work longer

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Post by wryoak » Mon, Aug 04, 2025, 8:46 PM UTC

> In other words, even if the total time to complete a project increases—as the report claims—the amount I can get done per unit of time also increases.

I’m sure your product manager will be happy to hear that you’re more productive even though it’s taking you longer to ship

Re: Stop saying AI makes us work longer

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Post by fernvenue » Mon, Aug 04, 2025, 8:48 PM UTC

rogerkirkness wrote: post #2

The whole idea is for people to work on things that are interesting and valuable to customers at the same time. AI is for things that are valuable to customers but not interesting to work on.

True, for that boring stuff we can just tell AI to do and just review, and we can do other things at the same time, interesting things.

Re: Stop saying AI makes us work longer

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Post by JohnFen » Tue, Aug 05, 2025, 2:38 PM UTC

fernvenue wrote: post #4

rogerkirkness wrote: post #2

The whole idea is for people to work on things that are interesting and valuable to customers at the same time. AI is for things that are valuable to customers but not interesting to work on.

True, for that boring stuff we can just tell AI to do and just review, and we can do other things at the same time, interesting things.

But reviewing code I didn't recently write is one of those boring things. genAI seems to increase the amount of unpleasant things I have to do and decrease the amount of enjoyable things.