I suspect a long term consequence of AI adoption in workplaces is that document reviews become worthless.
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@carnage4life For a long while there is intrinsic part of every org that mandates a noop documents to be produced. They have no value on their own for the goals of the organisation, but to fulfil the needs of some checklist process.
If a person uses [a tool] to shorten the time&resources spent on said task, it should be a net positive for said organisation.@carnage4life Obviously #1: we can argue on what the "useless thing" is and what just suffers from Chesterton's fence-like situation.
Obviously #2: This solution does not address the root cause, and thus does not help in broader sense.
Obviously #3: Yep, capitalistic AI hypers do profit on this. But IMO correct solution is not to "ban AI", but rather critically look at the tasks at hand and have a deep thought of why they should not be eliminated / automated. -
@drwho @carnage4life Yep, I think, most technical documents I‘ve written in my ten years as an engineer were never read by anyone else but me and the person I asked to proofread.
@minus @carnage4life None of mine have been, either. Even my proofreaders rubberstamped it.
I don't know why I bother writing documentation for anyone. Nobody every reads it.
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@carnage4life For a long while there is intrinsic part of every org that mandates a noop documents to be produced. They have no value on their own for the goals of the organisation, but to fulfil the needs of some checklist process.
If a person uses [a tool] to shorten the time&resources spent on said task, it should be a net positive for said organisation.@MichalBryxi @carnage4life The problem is that LLMs have a huge cost to produce those valueless documents. If the organization had to bear the actual costs involved, LLM usage would be *banned* so fast it'd unscrew your head from your neck.
Cheaper and simpler to just re-evaluate whether you need that particular step in the checklist or not.
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@MichalBryxi @carnage4life The problem is that LLMs have a huge cost to produce those valueless documents. If the organization had to bear the actual costs involved, LLM usage would be *banned* so fast it'd unscrew your head from your neck.
Cheaper and simpler to just re-evaluate whether you need that particular step in the checklist or not.
@tknarr @carnage4life Agree with your second point: https://mastodon.world/@MichalBryxi/116037210000728401
Not so much with the first. The reality we live in is that that price has been already paid for current generation of models. And using them locally costs the org next to nothing.
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I suspect a long term consequence of AI adoption in workplaces is that document reviews become worthless. An initial problem some have begun to encounter is where the author didn’t even read the document AI produced.
Some AI-forward companies have an even more pernicious problem of people not reading the document but instead asking AI what questions to raise to make it look like they did.
Over time this will become a waste of time with only the AI companies benefiting.
@carnage4life we are using less AI for writing docs in the startup I work at due to this dynamic. I find it more effective as a coach for myself to clarify thinking, but most writing is best done by the individual with context & intent directly.
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