> AI is scaling the creation side of knowledge work at an exponential rate Why do people keep saying things like this? "Exponential rate"? That's just not true

> AI is scaling the creation side of knowledge work at an exponential rate Why do people keep saying things like this? "Exponential rate"? That's just not true. So far the benefits are marginal at best and limited to relatively simple tasks. It's a truism at this point, even among fans of AI, that the benefits of AI are much more pronounced at junior-level tasks. For complex work, I'm not convinced that AI has "scaled the creation side of knowledge work" at all. I don't think it's particularly useful for the kind of non-trivial tasks that actually take up our time. Amdahl's Law comes into play. If using AI gives you 200% efficiency on trivial tasks, but trivial tasks only take 10% of your time, then you've realized a whopping 5.3% productivity boost. I do not actually spend much time on boilerplate. I spend time debugging half-baked code, i.e. the stuff that LLMs spit out. I realize I'm complaining about the third sentence of the article, but I refuse to keep letting people make claims like this as if they're obviously true. The whole article is based on false premises.