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AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
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People who use slop keep saying stuff like "my productivity grew by leaps and bounds" and such. Yet I've never seen substantiation of productivity gains with LLMs: not with colleagues who gave it a try (at my boss' behest until he realized it was idiotic), nor with any actual formal management studies.
Are there any peer-reviewed studies showing productivity going "off the charts" by use of LLMs? Or is this all anecdote from people who were never productive in the first place and can thus make any claim they like about their productivity? (After all 1000× nothing is ... nothing.)
I haven't seen anything yet. At work, the ones that praise AI the loudest are exceptionally highly correlated with the people who lack a good understanding of the core concepts. The ones that just float around cargo culting and looking busy by making noise.
That said, LLMs are still useful tools, that are highly misused. What they're useful for, is a lot less than most think. The user needs to be the expert. If they're not, they'd be better off reading a book on the matter (and how things are looking, it might have to be one written before LLMs came out).
Exactly this...
Also checking work of AI is a lot harder than checking the worker of a junior employee.
Junior employee makes predictable mistakes and improves over time.
These models improve alright based on benchmarks but they fundamentally will never know right from wrong and the whole point of being a professional is being able to tell that. Being able to catch being wrong and correct. Stand your ground when you know you know you are right..
These systems can't do any of it.
Oh, do I ever feel this!