[defnotai]

Some people are being pressured by their management to use AI to increase efficiency in their jobs, with varying degrees of success.

I have a friend who works in logistics for GE and they’re getting training on the basics of GenAI and then they have to go out and find ways to integrate it into their workflow. The problem is that management isn’t doing the legwork to understand how to integrate the tooling, they’re just handing that responsibility off to the actual users. Those people wind up complaining that taking time to integrate these tools winds up slowing them down and they struggle to find meaningful applications for the LLMs.

It’s like management is saying “here’s a new hammer, we don’t know how to use it but the guy who sold it to us convinced us you can figure out how to use it. So go out and do it and be better and faster at your job, good luck”.

[silisili]

I'm running into this now. Boss is all but mandating everyone use Cursor.

I'm not anti-AI. I don't mind asking an LLM to write me some boilerplate. But I don't want to change my tooling, nor have an integrated assistant. My output is fine.

I'll hold out as long as I can, but it feels like this may one day just become the reality.

[defnotai]

Hype cycles come and go, AI will be no different. The core technology may remain and advance, but the fever will break once reality sets in/and or prices continue to climb.

[scrps]

Gonna be fun to see the results of cases like "I didn't defraud the company, gen AI did!" Of which I suspect some will actually be fraud and some not but I don't envy the lawyer who has to explain neuronal computation to a nontechnical person.