A new analysis found that people who use AI at work have longer workdays than those who don't.
  • corvi@piefed.socialEnglish
    31·
    3 hours ago

    I can anecdotally attest to this. My company has built their product in such a way that it is unusable without AI. There are some things it legitimately expedites, but there are more things that used to take me 10 minutes that now take an hour and a half. And then I have to go validate the output anyway.

    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      51 minutes ago

      I can too - but at the same time, a lot of the extra time I’m putting in is using the clankers to more quickly address tech debt issues that we have been punting on for literal years (do not get me started on the priorities of my manager and our PM)

    • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
      91·
      2 hours ago

      Yup.

      My work uses MS Teams and Sharepoint, and MS is dumbing down both products as much as is feasible in order to force people to use CoPilot more. It’s moronic, and I hate discovering changes to the UI that appear to be bugs and then finding out it was deliberate. (Like buttons and scroll bars that are invisible until you hover a cursor over them. Stupid.)

      But LLM’s were only ever useful if the validation of their output didn’t outweigh the supposed time saved, and that is rarely the case.

      Stupid business practices. Can’t wait for a popping of the bubble.

    • Decq@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      2 hours ago

      I’m probably ignorant, as i left the conventional workforce before AI took off… But how does that exactly make you work longer? If the AI isn’t finished by the time the shift is over, then it’s tomorrows problem, no?

      • evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.worldEnglish
        16·
        2 hours ago

        Most people in jobs like this aren’t paid hourly, they are salaried and expected to get the job done. Usually the problem isnt necessarily the runtime of an AI, but the inefficiency of a workflow that brought AI into its center.

        It’s like walking a child through how to cook a meal. Maybe it’s technically less “work” since they are doing the chopping, measuring, stirring, etc, but it takes longer since you have to take time to be explicit about all your instructions, and correcting mistakes, etc. The difference is a child will eventually learn how to do it themselves, while in practice, and AI probably won’t since it likely relies on inputs that can’t just be piped in (cause if they could, you’d do the job with regular programming).

        • Decq@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          2 hours ago

          Most people in jobs like this aren’t paid hourly, they are salaried and expected to get the job done. Usually the problem isnt necessarily the runtime of an AI, but the inefficiency of a workflow that brought AI into its center.

          Sure, but if the tools provided/mandated by the employer are inadequate to do the job more efficiently. That should be the employers problem, not the employee’s.

          You can’t as management both claim the need for AI out of efficiency, and blame it at the same time for you not getting your job done in time because of it. But then again, how often do you come across competent leadership these days. The lemon can always be squeezed a bit more I guess.

          • 🇨🇦GreenBeard🇨🇦@lemmy.caEnglish
            1·
            46 minutes ago

            Why would management even consider that they’re contradicting themselves every 5 minutes? They’re the ones that sign the paychecks, they can be absurd if they want to be. It’s not like there’s every going to be personal consequences anyway, and if the company burns to the ground, they’ve already got their golden parachute worked out.

            • Decq@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              25 minutes ago

              They don’t have to, just as much as you don’t have to compensate for their shortcomings. Of course that’s easier said then done if you work somewhere with little to no workers protection and fear losing your job. But that still doesn’t make it right.

        • mx_smith@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 hour ago

          Not to mention all the tools you use on a daily basis that have also adopted AI development causing them to behave erratically. I have been wrestling with the coderabbitai for the last two hours to get a PR finished.

      • corvi@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        2 hours ago

        That’s fair, I look longer to mean either more work, or more time spent on a given problem.

        That’s what I get for not reading the article

      • NarrativeBear@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        3 hours ago

        Or employees using AI to generate their work/content now need to spend equally as much time reviewing their generated work/content.

        It’s like being a manager and asking your employee that you know always fucks up to do something. You have two options, get the employee to write it, then you check it after, or you write it your self and save time on explaining and checking.