[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.