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I have yet to use an application, other than IDE's or code editors like Zed, that have AI features that I actually use and which provide some benefit. Every Goo

I have yet to use an application, other than IDE's or code editors like Zed, that have AI features that I actually use and which provide some benefit. Every Google app has it and it literally stinks -- it offers to do a bunch of stuff I don't want or need, and doesn't properly perform any of the tasks that I could actually use help with. Same with Figma, Acrobat, Office365, QuickBooks, Slack, Confluence, Jira, etc. etc. And don't even get me started with the "AI Assistants" that every support company has which are utterly useless and just make it more difficult to get to an actual human. The only use cases I've actually seen in production that are high performance are: 1) writing code (CC is good), 2) code inline editing suggestions (Zed does this pretty well, so does JetBrains), 3) document summaries.

raxxorraxor 1y ago
Same. I use AI to code, but it often is just scaffolding (I often have projects with limited scope, but a lot of them). It is a real help. Also it shuffles things up, uses solutions I didn't have the time to learn or look up. So it provides some education as well. I still have to check everything, but i basically replaced project scaffoliding tools to a large part. I also use image generation extensively, but that is for hobby purposes. I trained some models (RAG) and build some tools, but quickly noticed that is quiet a bit of work even to generate and audit the knowledge base you want to consume. I think it warrants to be a new job position. Problem is that this position needs someone who is very familiar with the processes within a company, so external help here is hard to come by and it would be a longer time investment. If you have success here, I would assume it could boost productivity for workers that aren't that close to AI tech and maybe just used AI for search and questions. Until now we (only?) have an AI that reads mails and imports the relevant information into our ERP, CRM or general content systems. It queries relevant information about support cases to provide helpful context for case handlers. I think it works quite well, but I cannot imagine it replacing anyone. Exception might be if you specialize on scamming people, that could probably work.

raxxorraxor 1y ago

Same. I use AI to code, but it often is just scaffolding (I often have projects with limited scope, but a lot of them). It is a real help. Also it shuffles things up, uses solutions I didn't have the time to learn or look up. So it provides some education as well. I still have to check everything, but i basically replaced project scaffoliding tools to a large part. I also use image generation extensively, but that is for hobby purposes. I trained some models (RAG) and build some tools, but quickly noticed that is quiet a bit of work even to generate and audit the knowledge base you want to consume. I think it warrants to be a new job position. Problem is that this position needs someone who is very familiar with the processes within a company, so external help here is hard to come by and it would be a longer time investment. If you have success here, I would assume it could boost productivity for workers that aren't that close to AI tech and maybe just used AI for search and questions. Until now we (only?) have an AI that reads mails and imports the relevant information into our ERP, CRM or general content systems. It queries relevant information about support cases to provide helpful context for case handlers. I think it works quite well, but I cannot imagine it replacing anyone. Exception might be if you specialize on scamming people, that could probably work.