This is happening to me too. I am so productive now, with this super power, that my reward is to be given more work.
Yea. They are half assed tools that can do _something_ but aren’t a magic bullet, yet executives put guidelines in like increase productivity by 100% because they either believe or, want to manifest into reality, that they are a magic bullet for the deadly sin of paying employees.
So now expectations are based on a false reality and everyone has to work harder.
interested in what part - i found making qcli agents to run through SOPs was real effective and turned 20min of busy work async.
there might be a misattribution though. over time, id say the top down initiatives and quality at tracking them has gone up maybe 100% used to be one big project for getting rid of oracle that went for 3-7 years, but nowadays theres maybe 5 per month that disrupts the whole company at once.
There's a desire to make that LLM/agent based, but the agent still doesnt cover all the communication overhead to actually communicate the change across teams for deployments, nor is it so seamless that you dont have to take time out to understand whats happening and schedule the work, even if it is sometimes just approving an automated code change
> maximizing profit for shareholders
This is the only phrase where I see where the concern for others is so deeply and genuinely expressed in america.
This year is either going to show that LLMs are really going to be super-transformative, or, the investment thesis is a basket-case.
Strap in.
Of course it does, the same way that industrial revolution increased it. Those that tell you about automation by itself is leading to better quality of life, better working conditions etc. either are ignorant, or simply lie to you. All the good stuff we have was obtained through political means. Yes, technology was something that enabled particular outcome, but only if harnessed by political means.
The fact we can today enjoy 40 hours workweek is not a necessary consequence of steam machine. It is a consequence of people dying while fighting with police and capital henchmen in Chicago, and it other places.
But keep believing your overlords and their servants.
Let the execs eat cake. Stop correcting the AI's mistakes.
One positive consequence of AI is for people working on old, constantly updated codebases. Especially the stuff created in a data scientist development paradigm (my adhoc python script produces good results, let me clean up a bit and merge into prod codebase).
There's suddenly much more interest in refactoring, test coverage, etc. and more space for this work, both because it enables more AI work and because AI on clunky code makes it even clunkier much faster than human developers (who are not data scientists ;))
In addition AI makes it easier. Tell me which ones of the 70 fields in this monster class are not used for anything of consequence anymore, this kind of stuff .
Duh, it’s Amazon. They love piling more work on. Why anyone still works there is beyond me unless they have no other choice. The word was out a decade ago.
Come on. Machines that save physical labor can shorten the workday, but don't. They do lessen the calories you burn. Email, laptops and phones, all the cogntive and information inventions increase the workload. Either expectations rise (hello 3am Slack message) or employees are trimmed.
> The AI tools ultimately helped the company in its quest for more output, but didn’t help the employee who is looking to ease her work burden
That seems like it’s doing exactly what it is supposed to. Did people think that AI would give them a four hour work day? Have you not lived under capitalism for years now?
Not seeing this yet but our place is still trying to figure things out. We have strong KPIs on how much we use copilot so I must say woof woof to it every day or so to make sure it shows me as an active user (luckily it only shows the latest date someone has used it in each application).
For programming I find it pretty useful. For MS Office it's so far not a hell of a lot more useful than clippy. The one thing it's good at is finding old stuff in SharePoint and Outlook but that's more a sign of how terrible the search functions are in those than of how good copilot is.