[twothamendment]

I feel lucky. Rather than cut workers because AI is making our jobs easier and faster, we are just doing more work, more projects that we wouldn't have had the bandwidth to do. I'm solo on something we we would have assigned a small team to.

[mostlysimilar]

Would you mind elaborating? Generally speaking what is the project? What does the AI enable you to do solo that you would have had to dedicate a team to before? Is the quality of the software the same, worse, or better? What does your day-to-day job look like and how is it different from before? What tools are you using?

[SchemaLoad]

I had a friend tell me about how ChatGPT makes his work so much faster. When I asked about it he told me that he works tech support and after the problem is resolved customers often ask for a root cause analysis. He uses ChatGPT to generate a fake but plausible looking analysis and this seems to satisfy the customers, letting him get tickets done faster and play games in the freed time.

[johnnyanmac]

Yeah, this is always my skepticism when I say "I get more work done". What about more good work?

We had such a pushback last decade about "bullshit jobs" among the tech sphere, but we seemed to have fallen right into it. At least while the money is flowing to enable it.

[SchemaLoad]

There's a study in to this now https://hbr.org/2025/09/ai-generated-workslop-is-destroying-...

"We define workslop as AI generated work content that masquerades as good work, but lacks the substance to meaningfully advance a given task."

ChatGPT is basically pushing the real work on to the next person along the line who then has to fix up the generated workslop.