CEOs Say AI Is Making Work More Efficient. Employees Tell a Different Story(www.wsj.com)
37 pointsby 1vuio0pswjnm76 hours ago7 comments
  • general14654 hours ago
    If I would get suckered into paying lot of money for AI, I would definitelly try to convince myself that the AI is working.
  • happymellon2 hours ago
    Most of the time large corporate CEOs appear to be just magic 8 balls, making decisions to ensure that the company doesn't end up with decision paralysis. AI reduces the amount they have to read before saying yes/no, so of course it makes their lives more efficient. Most of the time it doesn't even matter if they choose yes or no. Just that they pick something.
  • avidiax5 hours ago
    I would say that AI has not saved me any time as a developer. What is has done is allowed me to increase scope by doing tasks like documentation and prototyping/experimentation that I would not have found time for otherwise.

    Saying that the AI saves time is like saying that a printer saves paper.

    • xedrac2 hours ago
      You say it hasn't saved you any time because you're doing more work now - e.g. documentation. I would say that's being pedantic, but I guess the expectations shift with it, so in practice, you can't just maintain your old output level and reclaim the saved time.
  • elp6 hours ago
    I think the real issue is that its still in its painful growth stage and we have a way to go until we will start to understand better where its good and where its a disaster.

    I have a co-worker who is really good at herding agents. I've seen him do work in an afternoon what would take more than two weeks without AI, but some of his other work ends up being so bad the rest of us want to string him up by his thumbs.

    Its impossible to tell from just looking before hand what the result will be.

    • e40an hour ago
      Sounds like it’s a force multiplier, both on the good and bad side. That lines up with what I have seen. It’s hard to tell if it’s a net positive or negative.
  • wasmainiac6 hours ago
    Obviously, C suite will allways be biased
    • simianwords3 hours ago
      So will the workers be biased against AI
      • hdjdkdjh3 hours ago
        Shed workers ... increase profit ... stock price go up ... Exec get bonus ... Economy fail ... Exec no care ... Exec have bonus and job still ...

        Honestly the caveman speak will get me marked down but fuck it.. It is transparent what they want....

        Ai has use but frankly until it can be trusted to actually follow the right path and skip around hard tasks make subtle bugs that can screw things up... It will get worse before it gets better....

        • simianwords3 hours ago
          when has this ever happened? stop making things up in your mind
          • happymellonan hour ago
            It hasn't with AI.

            But it's exactly what the executives say, and why they are interested in AI.

            There is a post currently right next to this one on the front page about Autodesk showing a desire to use AI to fire workers.

            https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/autodesk-lay-...

          • lambdaone2 hours ago
            The subprime mortgage crisis that led to the Great Recession comes to mind.

            The destruction of Boeing for short-term profits.

            Private equity's destruction of public companies.

            The entire American health insurance system.

            • simianwords2 hours ago
              do you think by and large this describes the american economy?
  • YoungX2 hours ago
    The pain of using AI is only temporary—once you get the hang of it, your efficiency will improve significantly