[WarmWash]

Most people will pocket AI gains for themselves.

So from the top it doesn't look like much has changed, whereas workers are trying to offload as much work as they can onto their claude subscription.

People in desperation to min/max work per unit dollar, will leverage AI to free themselves from as much work as possible, while still claiming credit for the work.

So as the labs start ratcheting up the price, people will pay more and more to keep their "secret" assistant.

[lunar_mycroft]

Wouldn't that explanation predict that lower ranking employees would be more impressed with AI than higher ranking ones? Because what we actually observe [0] tends to be the opposite. Executives are the most bullish on AI, followed by Managers, with employees having the least adoption.

[0] https://businesschief.com/news/why-are-executives-using-ai-m...

[WarmWash]

Those studies are of workers using company provided AI.

They call out the MIT study in the article, which found very low adoption of corporate AI initiatives.

However if you read that study, they found that almost every worker uses AI heavily, but they just use their personal AI account.

Again, people are using their own AI to benefit themselves, it makes the most sense. Using company AI shows that the AI is doing xyz, and maybe perhaps you aren't that valuable. Using your own AI makes it look like you are doing xyz, and you are the valuable one.