> What they found across more than 40 “in-depth” interviews was that nobody was pressured at this company. Nobody was told to hit new targets. People just started doing more because the tools made more feel doable. But because they could do these things, work began bleeding into lunch breaks and late evenings. The employees’ to-do lists expanded to fill every hour that AI freed up, and then kept going.
> As one engineer told them, “You had thought that maybe, oh, because you could be more productive with AI, then you save some time, you can work less. But then really, you don’t work less. You just work the same amount or even more.”
The article also has some dismal numbers regarding how much AI actually contributes, and these numbers look much worse when read in context of the investments the big guys are making. Add in the economic and environmental concerns and it just looks like the wrong tech at the wrong time but humans are stupid like that. Burn the planet up, we can move to mars when we run out of earth!
> What they found across more than 40 “in-depth” interviews was that nobody was pressured at this company. Nobody was told to hit new targets. People just started doing more because the tools made more feel doable. But because they could do these things, work began bleeding into lunch breaks and late evenings. The employees’ to-do lists expanded to fill every hour that AI freed up, and then kept going.
> As one engineer told them, “You had thought that maybe, oh, because you could be more productive with AI, then you save some time, you can work less. But then really, you don’t work less. You just work the same amount or even more.”
The article also has some dismal numbers regarding how much AI actually contributes, and these numbers look much worse when read in context of the investments the big guys are making. Add in the economic and environmental concerns and it just looks like the wrong tech at the wrong time but humans are stupid like that. Burn the planet up, we can move to mars when we run out of earth!