[BiteCode_dev]

Some jobs it's more.

I had to sign a 140 page contract of foreign language legalese. Mostly boiler plate, but I had specific questions about it.

Asking questions to an AI to get the specific page answering it meant I could do the job in 2 hours. Without an AI, it would have taken me 2 days.

For programming, it's very good at creating boilerplate, tests, docs, generic API endpoints, script argument parsing, script one-liners, etc. Basically anything for which, me, as a human, don't have much added value.

It's much faster to generate imperfect things with AI and fix them that to write them myself when there is a lot of volume.

It's also pretty good at fixing typos, translating, giving word definition, and so on. Meaning if you are already in the chat, no need to switch to a dedicated tool.

I don't personally get 10x on average (although on specific well suited task I can) but I can get a good X3 on a regular basis.

[echoangle]

But what you're doing isn't a real job. Who hands someone who doesn't speakt the language a contract to sign? Don't you have a legal department that does this job for you and has people that are specialists for that?

Also, what are you going to do if the AI answered inaccurately and you signed a contract that says something different then what you thought?

[drewcoo]

Similar to "real work," a "real job" is a definitional problem that attacks people's senses of self.

[echoangle]

I am actually pretty sure that the thing described literally isn’t a real job, at least not working for a serious employer. I can’t imagine a company telling someone to sign contracts in a language they can’t speak and somehow try to make a sense of it.

Either it’s their own company and they’re doing something unwise, they are doing it without the knowledge of their superior or their company shouldn’t be trusted with anything.

The point was that „AI helps me translate the contracts I want to sign“ isn’t a good example of „AI increases my productivity“ because that’s not something you should ever do.

[BiteCode_dev]

You are confusing not being able to do something well with being able to do it quickly.

[echoangle]

But you shouldn't do some stuff you can't do properly at all, not quickly and not slowly. As a layman, you can't sign a contract in a language you don't speak, even if you have a whole year, unless you can become more-than-fluent in that language in a single year. That's just not something you should do, and the AI isn't reliable enough to help you with it. That's what a legal department is for.

[JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B]

I would never in my whole life sign anything in a foreign language that I don’t understand. It’s the perfect example of what AI is: let’s do anything that looks like a job well done and fuck it. That is not convincing. It’s suicidal.