There’s an assumption here that Gen AI makes everyone more productive. I find it’s quite the opposite for me. The time saved on generating a response is spent

There’s an assumption here that Gen AI makes everyone more productive. I find it’s quite the opposite for me. The time saved on generating a response is spent making sure there are no mistakes, misrepresentations, or plain BS. In code, it’s making sure it didn’t generate subtle security errors and the like. I find it’s better at wasting my time than anything. And then having to read my GenAI-using colleagues’ “work.” What they could have explained themselves in a few minutes becomes a wall of text they didn’t bother to review, let alone write. Waste of time. We ought to consider that this isn’t the revolutionary tool that’s going to replace workers. That’s capitalism talking and it has a problem on its hands: shareholders want profits for all the money they’ve dumped into these ventures and API tokens aren’t covering their costs right now. Of course they want us to believe it makes everyone instantly more productive since that would sell more API tokens. … they’ll just deal with how to actually make money with this and hide or justify the environmental damage later.