[thewebguyd]

So far where I work its the Instant Pot, at least for the non-devs. We rolled out Claude & Cowork to the masses after a brief pilot. It was about a solid month and a half of heavy usage and then suddenly usage fell off a cliff. Once it stopped being a cool new toy, people just didn't find a use for it.

A few mundane things got automated, but these were just back office admin type work. Nothing that's going to show on the P&L. Yeah those people now have a little more time for other things, but those other things are also not revenue generating. No FTE got replaced by it so in the end they just paid for a bunch of administrative positions to be a little less busy. Great for the workers who are now less stressed, but almost no impact on the business financials except there's now yet another subscription.

[palmotea]

> So far where I work its the Instant Pot, at least for the non-devs. We rolled out Claude & Cowork to the masses after a brief pilot. It was about a solid month and a half of heavy usage and then suddenly usage fell off a cliff. Once it stopped being a cool new toy, people just didn't find a use for it.

Your employer is doing it wrong. You need usage surveillance with sanctions for low/declining use, then people won't stop using it.

[LetsGetTechnicl]

Please tell me you're being sarcastic.

[palmotea]

It's industry best practice. All the market-leading companies are doing it. Do you think you know better than them?

If there's anything I've learned as a software engineer, it's that agreeing with and defending the ideas of business leaders and Silicon Valley VC influencers proves I'm very intelligent.

[12_throw_away]

this sarcasm is very disrespectful, you're mocking a sizeable proportion of the commenters on this site.

when I quote this comment later, with appropriate attribution, please know that I will be shaking my head and frowning while doing so

[zygology]

> you're mocking a sizeable proportion of the commenters on this site.

some would call this god's work

[generalpf]

He is, but he's also describing reality.

[LetsGetTechnicl]

That's depressing

[eska]

He’s referencing practices at Meta and probably others