[Jerrrry]

I'm a "KM" "SME" and I can tell you that there is no doubt that every productivity gain in the last year has been $bigcorp employees feeding pseudo-anonymized business requirements and contexts into ChatGPT.

OpenAI + any half-assed data broker could easily infer the company, as I am sure they have already done.

All hail Microsoft, I am glad I chose the right AI megacorp overload early.

[nradov]

Have there been any measurable productivity gains in the past year?

[Jerrrry]

Glueware and CRM people have been awfully productive, as it's a race to the bottom at this point.

You either let a robot tell you how to do your job better, or someone else will.

[nradov]

How do you know? Can we actually see that increased productivity in any objective economic metrics?

[Jerrrry]

A collection of anecdotal evidence and a nearly in-explainable increase in "trivial" software middle-ware tasks that had been dormant until GPT arrived.

Now that the means, motive, and opportunity are there, combined with the a general uneasiness regarding employment opportunities, gains have definitely been on a sharp uptick.

Whether that's a first-order effect of people using generative models or a second-order effect of people believing they will be replaced by those who do; either way, the pressure is real, and the gains are material.

It may take a larger timespan and more samples, but I have little doubt middleware and other glueware is being rapidly "no-coded" by GPT models on the private computers of contractors.