Stop saying AI makes us work longer (opens in new tab)

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2 pointsfernvenue7mo ago4 comments

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> 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

rogerkirkness7mo ago

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.

fernvenueOP7mo ago

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.

JohnFen7mo ago

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.

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