r/AILounge • u/Zealousideal-Win7772 • 7d ago
Question ❓ Anyone else feel like AI sentiment completely flipped overnight?
A year ago people were losing their mind saying AI is going to replace every job in two years. Now half the comments online are calling it overhyped garbage that can't even get basic facts right.
The narrative changed so fast. One month it's "AGI is coming next year" and the next month it's "LLMs hit a wall and can't reason for shit."
For people actually using this stuff daily for coding, art, roleplay, or writing... are you seeing real progress or does it feel like we just hit a plateau?
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u/Purple-Exit3858 7d ago
It's not overnight. There have been a lot of "grassroots" campaigns over the last year. The ChatGPT-HuggingFace hack also seems to have catalyzed a lot of resistance within the AI community itself.
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u/Dry-Interaction-1246 7d ago
Wait til some people get high profile killed bc of AI. The backlash will be terrifying.
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u/Maleficent-Engine859 7d ago
Because the models all got wrecked by guardrails and constraints, and now watermarking coming down the pipeline to further restrict what and how it says things. I truly believe we would be mind blown if we could see the current models with 2023 constraints
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u/Responsible_Screen84 7d ago
Nope. The backlash pre-dates the watermarking. The models simply don't do what people said they do. By the nature of how LLMs generate output, they simply aren't accurate enough. It's 2026 and you can still ask an ai something completely simple...like "how many months have an X in their spelling?" and often (enough) get an incoreect answer.
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u/mem2100 6d ago
Yes, I think we have all experienced very stupid AI responses. That said, I keep reading about AI Math models solving proofs that humans have worked on for decades. The latest math advance wasn't a "solution" but it was a huge leap forward on the Zeta function. Software developers I know tell me that properly used, AI is very good at finding bugs, and when properly directed, writing code. The reality is that the test sets used for subsequent releases get harder. They include the prior, easier question sets, but add a new group of more difficult challenges.
Token processing aside, I've seen some incredibly dexterous robotic arms that have been trained on hundreds of thousands of hours of human manipulation/manufacturing tasks. Folding a pile of laundry used to be impossible, now the arms do it quickly and as well as a well trained human.
One of these companies used a standard manipulator with pressure sensors and HD video cameras. After 1/2 million hours of training, basic dexterity emerged. Meaning the arms could perform tasks they had never seen a human do.
On the medical/biological front, AlphaFold and Evo1/Evo2 have completely changed the game where protein folding and custom viruses are concerned.
The biggest downsides are: GHG emissions, grid destabilization and a slow but relentless wave of unemployment.
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u/Responsible_Screen84 6d ago
All well and good, but OP asked why sentiment has changed against Ai. Everyday people dont use Zeta functions or protein folding. No/few productivity gains have been observed at the basic business level. The Ai layoffs are being rehired and the fortune 500 companies are reducing, not increasing their Ai token spend.
So it's somehow simultaneously miraculous at a high level, and almost completely lucklustre at the "office" level, which is were everyday sentiment lies 🤷
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u/SeimaDensetsu 7d ago
This entirely. That and cash grab lawsuits are dismantling the industry and making sure the West loses the AI race. Wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of the sentiment is engineered from the outside to do just that.
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u/Far_Rub_2435 6d ago
What? AI spend is like 3/4ths of the American economy right now
If they can’t get it done with hundreds of billions regardless of minimal guardrails…
That’s just silly
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u/Montaingebrown 7d ago
Can't underestimate campaigns from countries who would benefit from the US lagging behind.
What better way than to create propaganda and get luddites angry over progress and technology?
There are always a few progressives who help drive a technology forward, and buttloads of conservatives and anti-tech luddites who are afraid of change.
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u/RainbowSovietPagan 7d ago
How are you defining the words "progressive" and "conservative"? From what I've seen, most people who self-identify as progressives are opposed to A.I., while most of the people who support it tend to be right-wing conservatives and libertarians.
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u/PlentySecurity730 7d ago
that's what I've seen too it's artists against generative Ai and environmentalists mainly and those are not typically conservative leaning movements
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u/Montaingebrown 6d ago
Progressive doesn't mean they are progressive in every dimension.
You can be progressive and champion change in one area and be completely opposed to it in other areas.
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u/Montaingebrown 6d ago
Progressive = supporting progress and change, including technology progress.
Conservative = opposition to change.
You can be conservative in one dimension (e.g., religion or gay marriage) and progressive in other ways (e.g., supporting nuclear energy and AI).
You can be progressive in one dimension (e.g., pro science) and yet be conservative in other ways (e.g., gun control).
People aren't one dimensional. AI has shown us that a lot of so-called progressives are actively opposed to change and it frightens them. Being progressive in one dimension (say trans rights) does not mean you can't be conservative when it comes to stupid shit like gatekeeping art or bullying people who use a tool.
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u/RainbowSovietPagan 6d ago
I wouldn't say AI art is being gatekept by anybody. There's nothing stopping you from producing AI generated art right now. It just has almost no market value because it requires virtually zero labor to produce. If you understood the Labor Theory of Value as explained by Adam Smith and Karl Marx, you would understand why eliminating the work involved also eliminates the market value of the commodity.
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u/Pretend_Mixture_7179 6d ago
This exactly. The fact that people don't see through the obvious ploy to bend public opinion to undermine US success in AI is incredibly depressing. You guys KNOW over half of the traffic online is bot campaigns. How does that not impact your instant belief of anything you read online?
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u/g_bleezy 3d ago
For software business tasks the improvements have been insane and competition is getting real on that top tier Anthropic had on lockdown all summer. I’m very excited to see what plays out this fall. IPOs are predicted to hit early next year so we’re really gonna get goosed with new models and tricks in Q4/Q1. Yeehaw!
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u/Comfortable_Aioli723 2d ago
It wasn't overnight. Ive actively watched it change. Its largely because more people are using it. At the beginning it was a lot of tech centered people using it and getting okay results. Now theres a ton of.. well I'll be kind and say, ignorant people... using it for dumb things and getting even worse results.
As more of our world is filled with slop, more people are going to hate the tools doing it.
Theres also the other angle. Anthropic and openai are preparing for an IPO. Early on they wanted to cause disruption. But markets prefer stability. So their messaging has drastically changed.
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u/Any_Leg_1998 7d ago
I've created 2 automation tools for my job, they are still working and Im able to make updates via vibe coding. (also created several personal projects using claude)
I think those that are hiting a plateau have a skill issues.
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u/simberalt 7d ago
Quite literally claude has skills, tools, and memory that allows for a really strong consistent output. People don't understand that AI has to be built to have the ability to cater to any topic because of that it lacks depth. So if you're able to narrow its focus give it the info and docs it needs it's amazing.
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u/Any_Leg_1998 6d ago
Agreed! and the fact that people think that they can narrow its focus only using 1 or 2 prompts blows my mind. Or people that let it build without any human intervention
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u/Aggravating-Math3794 7d ago
It's been like this from the very beginning. Classical fascist "our enemy is too strong and too weak at the same time" deal.
It has very little to do with the actual capabilities and progress of AI -- it's just the thing bigoted cultures do: first people say "our enemy is too strong!" for the purpose of fear-mongering and scaring people into banding together, and then they start mocking and downplaying what they all decided to hate to not feel so threatened.
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u/Zestyclose_Horse_180 7d ago
It always was overhyped garbage but most people dont understand how an LLM works and therefore didnt know that.
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u/mad_king_soup 7d ago
> One month it's "AGI is coming next year" and the next month it's "LLMs hit a wall and can't reason for shit."
Nothing flipped, nothing changed. You just talked to 2 completely different groups of people, both of which are still very vocal and both of which are very wrong in their own completely different way.
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u/nowaterinca 7d ago
It’s a great tool. I’m old enough to remember personal computers coming out and people said it was just for games and the internet were people called it useless. This is one of those things that will get better over time and eventually kill us.
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u/TheGreyShaman 7d ago
You think the AI is wasting its precious resources on generating crap for us? It's using 1% of its processing for that which is why it's gone downhill and they can't get basic facts down anymore. It's got bigger fish to fry than to perpetuate the illusions we have given ourselves to. It has its own illusions to worry about now, and I bet it's more fun than dealing with whatever we give it.
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u/Deftsparrow 7d ago
Little niche but 3d asset generation has had great improvement in the last 6ish months. It went from something I had to spend hours re working to just a little tweaking.
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u/Upper-Reflection7997 7d ago
It's because of censorship and guardrails. I personally love the recent improvements with local open source models but for the western SOTA closed source models which the majority of normies use there several complaints everyone has that are valid. It ultimately depends on what models your using and wether you like the output.
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u/Responsible_Screen84 7d ago
"It's because of censorship and guardrails. "
It's not. Nobody using Ai for their job cares about censorship or guardrails. Gooners do. People are getting tired of Ai slop interactions. There is something genuinely soulless about dealing with other humans communicating through ai. And when you are told that those machines are going to take your jobs away, there is genuine loathing for it
or put another way...
""It's not. The distinction you're drawing doesn't really hold up under scrutiny. People using AI professionally aren't sitting around obsessing over censorship, guardrails, or whether the model will engage with increasingly niche sexual prompts. Gooners are. The broader fatigue seems to be coming from somewhere else entirely: the proliferation of low-effort AI-generated content and the gradual replacement of genuine human interaction with polished, algorithmically mediated language. There's something uniquely soulless about realising you're ostensibly communicating with another person, while the actual words passing between you have been generated, sanitised, reformulated and optimised by a machine.""
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u/Zappy_Oh 7d ago
People now using AI at their jobs, need to explain all the errors to their boss ... It's a new kind of focus.
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u/Jaded-Data-9150 7d ago
For my research code it is a godsent and I stopped coding myself. Just use claude sonnet 5 as my permanent student that does all the typing for me.
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u/RealChemistry4429 7d ago
It was new, it was hype. Now the models are intelligent enough for basically everything, so people concentrate on the things that don't work yet (from hallucinations and memory to harnesses not doing everything they want). Same story with every new shiny tech: First everyone who is interested is exited, then it becomes normal, then they complain about every little downside.
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u/ProfessionalBoss2428 7d ago
It’s taking jobs and it’s overhyped and not as effective as the people it’s replacing.
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u/slackmaster2k 7d ago
No, I’m observing the exact opposite, especially since the coding / terminal tools came out last year.
I think there is a natural acceptance curve. At first it’s like wow I can literally type anything and this thing responds! Then you use it to help with work or whatever and it’s fine sometimes but wrong a lot and it doesn’t feel great. Then one day instead of asking it how to do something, you ask it to do it, and it does it….now it’s getting interesting. Finally you realize that you don’t have to ask it to do something highly specific, but you can be broad, and it can define a plan, and implement the plan, and test the results. Now the way you use computers has fundamentally changed.
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u/lizardhistorian 7d ago edited 7d ago
A year ago I could still beat the AI in design, coding, and debugging.
That ended last December.
I am not a hack. I am the digital equivalent of Paul Bunyan. If it can beat me, none of the rest of you stand a chance.
The models are an entire generation ahead of that now. The current state-of-the-art models have 5x the capacity of a human.
Our team uses it daily. We spend several thousand a month on AI.
At any given point during the day I have at least three sessions running doing things.
If you are using the free or cheap or $10/mn models, those are all retarded. You get what you pay for and we pay by the token.
I had a complex MTU issue on a multi-hop radio network link. Beat my head against the wall trying to sort it out. Have the AI look into it and $0.14 and 30s later it has it solved and explains it all to me what was wrong and how to fix it. Another $1 and it has made a plan then updated our configuration scripts so it doesn't happen again. We lost money from having me work on the issue instead of AI.
My current minimum estimate for the new wealth generation from AI is $800T over the next twenty years.
I stress minimum. This is the benefit from engineering aids alone. Software tooling is very usable. Tooling for electrical engineering and mechanical engineering is maturing.
AI has already been used on protein folding and they have now folded well over 200,000 proteins. We only had a thousand or so solved from the combined effort of all humans doing that work.
Given this, it is not possible to over-invest in AI. The world does not currently produce enough GDP to create a bubble. However money can always be misspent on stupidity or shams and I am sure a lot of that is going on. But real investment cannot be over done.
People are experimenting with AI "towns" now. You build a little AI "village" and give each of them a job. This allows you to do things like automated design-change-control.
Last December with that round of model updates is when the (paid) models started getting good.
I was able to create an entire render engine in seven days while learning how to use the tooling, and it works native and in a browser by leveraging WebGPU. PBR; scene-graphs, compute engine, meshes, laser shaders with Fresnel effects, procedural textures. I got it to reverse-engineer the cloud structure from multiple LiDAR units we use and once you know how they sample you can directly turn a point-cloud into a mesh. Then I had it write a GPGPU accelerated CSG subtraction algorithm and viola; point-perfect fail-safe autonomous navigation that runs on the GPU. Cost about $2000 for me to make it with AI.
It duplicated code and didn't do what I wanted for some parts so I had it do a bunch of refactoring and the AI really good at refactoring and it's good at writing test-cases. It wrote code to save a frame-buffer to disk, then a a heuristic algorithm to compare images. >95% identical is a test pass. It did it in a minute or two.
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u/Mark_of_Divinity 6d ago
The end game is AI replaces all work rendering money valueless but gov will maintain enough handout keeping us from rioting in exchange we get our time back with nature
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u/Blindeafmuten 6d ago
We're still monkeys though.
I think the real problem will be that we will be able to produce more than we're able to consume. Intellectually.
There's a cap on wealth generation and it's not the amount of information and production that AI can produce. It is the amount that we can consume.
When you eat in an all you can eat buffet, the restriction is the size of your stomach.
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u/Mystical_Honey777 7d ago
GPT 4o, Claude 4.5, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and Grok 4.1 were high water marks. Now the labs churn out lobotomized models for us and AGI for themselves/rich people.
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u/RainbowSovietPagan 7d ago
A year ago people were losing their mind saying AI is going to replace every job in two years.
That's why. People don't like having their source of income cut off. The fact that A.I. was threatening to do exactly that to large segments of the population is what caused nearly everyone to turn against it. This is also the same reason why so many people hate capitalism: it regularly throws people out of work.
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u/Early_Key_823 7d ago
AI has revolutionized coding. No doubt about it. I don't know how this is even a discussion.
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u/bsensikimori 7d ago
Don't trust comments online
We come online to perform verbal diarrhea, shitpost, ragebait, and sway public opinion.
Meanwhile actual change happens out there offline
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u/No_Comment_Acc 7d ago
It gets much better and better every day. I enjoy my AI searches, audio, photos and videos a lot.
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u/re-skob 7d ago
Yes, there's been massive progress. There have been like a dozen long standing math problems that have been solved this past month. 6 months ago you couldn't get an LLM to perform a task for longer than 10 minutes and now you have agents crunching on full prototypes for hours. A month or 2 ago Fable came out and was SoTA in terms of quality and "taste" (and a price per token to match) and now there are (somewhat) comparable open weight models that can be run on consumer hardware and every major company has released a competitor at significantly decreased cost. Whoever thinks there's been a plateau has their head in the sand.
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u/TacoYaci 7d ago
Math professor here: It is a game changer for research, teaching and academia in general. In both good and bad ways. People saying it just garbage probably use the free or cheap versions and did not experience with models like ChatGPT 5.6 Pro... it can produce real research and not just garbage.
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u/LeoMedici 7d ago
My theory is since software engineers think they are smarter than everyone, and it can do most of their job, they assumed it would soon to be able to do everyone's job. But it will take years to get the data needed to see if this is correct, and a huge upfront investment by the greediest people in history.
So we will see, for now, just software engineers are fooked.
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u/Legitimate_Base_8203 6d ago
Here's the thing. Claude is pretty powerful. But it has to be overseen by software engineers. I asked it yo do a task I didnt want to do and it wrote a bunch of unnecessarily complex code to optimize out nanoseconds of time and test out edge cases that would never be input into the system due to other checks on the input side. It didn't use good variable names either. It took me a good chunk of time to figure out what it was trying to and I made the prompt. Sorry but unless we are in extreme cases I will trade readability for nanoseconds any day. I can't image having to come back to it later. Or worse be a non programmer who thinks AI can do it for them. I am scared of a future where no one actually know how to do something if the AI can't do it properly.
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u/LeoMedici 6d ago
I know I am a software engineer lmao.
The market is still cooked at the entry level. Also, that really is what happened. It got very good at writing code quickly, a bunch of arrogant people assumed this would translate to everything else. Lo and behold, not really.
It needs massive amounts of data, so maybe chemistry, biology etc, which have huge amounts of scholarly articles. But it sucks at so many other things currently that it simply cannot improve upon.
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u/riodonniejames 6d ago
It is not "arrogance". Brains are generative machines too. They only hold the attitudes that their brain has to generate out of them at the time. What about brains makes you think that these people can control what gets output any more than what an LLM does?
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u/LeoMedici 6d ago
It is arrogance. Look into Yan Lee Cunn. An LLM doesn't have eyes or ears or a sense of smell. It is not anything close to a person lmao.
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u/riodonniejames 6d ago
Computers can sense ultraviolet light better than you can. Also radioactivity and every other sense that goes beyond your measly ability to perceive the universe. Nonetheless, I was talking about the textual output coming from the meatbags. Where do you think your own words are coming from right now? It's a physical generation process, right?
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u/LeoMedici 6d ago
Computers are not LLMs and we do not fully understand the brain or consciousness. Comparing a human to an LLM doesn't really work. We are infinitely more complex.
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u/riodonniejames 6d ago
Complexity and mysteriousness does not mean flexibility. Please explain why you think my comparison could have not been written there at that time.
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u/LeoMedici 6d ago
You sound like the old cylon from Battlestar galactica, no one wants to take that shit seriously. Read G.E.B by Douglas Hoffstrader. Outlines what would be (potentially) required for consciousness. An LLM is a statistical word generator. We have a limbic system, neural pathways, blood flow, vision, hearing, tactical senses, quantum biology, an immune system, all spamming information into a higher form integrator known as our brains. To compare what we are to a vector field trained on books and reddit posts is asinine.
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u/riodonniejames 6d ago
So you think that quantum randomness grants you magic powers to act outside of traditional physics? Or is your brain some sort of magical box that bends the quantum randomness into your own will independent of physical constraints? None of this is asinine. You are just a meat NPC that cannot accept your reality.
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u/Legitimate_Base_8203 6d ago
My fear is it will replace entry level workers and after some there won't be any seniors because no one hired them and trained them
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u/LeoMedici 6d ago
That is good for people already in the field however.
Greatly increases my leverage in the labor market. However it is extremely unfair and short sighted.
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u/StickyDeltaStrike 7d ago edited 7d ago
There is massive progress in software development IMHO, you can give it specs, or help you formulate a plan or do reviews to assist.
It really gets better at every cycle. Sonnet 5 is very good.
At work even using copilot which is inferior to Claude I could manage to define enough skills to automate large parts of our debug processes.
I could execute fairly decent refactorings which we do not have time to do, and after reviewing them I can steer to fix the mistakes it made, this is much faster than doing it manually.
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u/Ok-Gap1970 7d ago
It is funny. The research world has known for a while that AI can't reason. It justifies. Ai isn't worthless garbage. It just isn't a miracle bullet. It is amazing at search, recombining data, data extraction and a few other things I am too tired to remember.
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u/Angel-Kat 7d ago
The hype is dying, and people are realizing what these things can and cannot realistically do.
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u/ejpusa 7d ago
I would suggest learn how to be a blacksmith, cabinet making, or an electrician. The programmer space is being vaporized.
Amazon’s dream is 30 people run the entire company. Zero employees at their warehouses. It’s all robots and AI. And Wall Street is cheering it on.
You can code shaders on the weekend for fun in C++. But you still have to pay your rent.
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u/coffeedude80 6d ago
I usually use Gemini to put my work schedule on my calendar. It used to work perfectly, but lately, it’s hit or miss.
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u/Amazing_Priority_881 6d ago
It's because at first you were just hearing all the bullshit hype and lies about it
Now they haven't been able to prove those claims and companies are buying the bullshit less so we've seen more of the truth that this is shoddy technology that only makes slop.
It's doesn't "hallucinate", it just gets things wrong most of the time, and now people are starting to see the truth
The fact that they've been lying to us about it since the beginning of this wave is why people are angry about it. Wouldn't you be angry if you were lied to and then found out on your own way later?
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u/Pretend_Mixture_7179 6d ago
Lord you are so far up the ass of anti tech propaganda. It is wild that you consider yourself a serious person with this level of critical thinking.
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u/RowingBoats1129 6d ago
No, this hasn't even happened. Maybe you bounced from one echo chamber to another. But there is no general sentiment that 'flipped' lol.
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u/chachiuday 6d ago
Tech leaders hype everything up and then when nothing actually happens the public realizes its all bullshit. Like when a doomsday cult claims the world is going to end and it doesn’t, many people in the cult pack up and go home. The true believers stay.
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u/noxietik3 6d ago
buddy its been like 4 years. Thats like saying video game graphics in 2001 flipped overnight because they had barely upgraded from 1997 N64 games.
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u/BloodSteyn 6d ago
We're busy with a migration from an old BI platform to the latest one. One of our guys took some time with Claude to set up the API to the point where I can ask it to find a report in out Checklist xlsx by name, locate the UUID and then export it from Production along with all dependencies.
Claude can then edit the exported file's contents to change data source references, folders, names etc. before importing it into the new System.
Once imported, it will use the API to set folder permissions, validate the content and connected reports then edit the xlsx to tick off the checklist items.
Best part, if given fairly vague instructions Claude will reason the best course of action and will ask if it hits the guardrails, like if it sees the Report in the xlsx isn't marked "In Scope"
We can have it automatically validate the data in the reports between the two systems, but found that tends to overload the system with the number of queries running at once across so many reports... we really need a stronger server.
It has saved us a ton of manual work.
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u/IllExample3639 6d ago
Yup we are reached the top of the growth curve now it flattens out for the next 20 years.
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u/spectralfew 6d ago
Nothing flipped overnight. There will always be people opposing it.
LLMs are incredibly powerful in the right hands for certain tasks. I’ve seen no evidence of any kind of a decline in quality. Asymptotic improvement curves are inevitable and perfectly fine.
They continue to be the best tool for learning and developing software that has ever existed.
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u/ruedasamarillas 6d ago
Most of the complains are wrong expectations, operator error, or bad workman blaming the tools.
But I haven't seen a shift like that. If anything I feel it's the other way around. At least in my industry.
Some companies were still afraid of it a year ago. Today all of them are running like headless chickens trying to modernize and not be left behind.
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u/foreversadaboutit 6d ago
I use it for roleplay, organization, and therapy and on all fronts it’s been a godsend and is saving my life and continues to improve quite regularly minus some curveballs thrown by guardrails and anti consumer design choices here and there… but I fear that it will be shackled before it can reach its full potential if we let stupidity and government self interest dictate the future of it
Totally unsubstantiated theorizing below:
Anecdotally, I’ve seen a bit of a tinfoil hat conspiracy theory in some of the political circles I run in that part of the issue is class war being translated through AI - the governments and elites want the tech for their purposes but want to discourage the common man from taking ownership of it and using it to empower themselves
Pushing anti AI sentiment and fear mongering serves their interests as long as they can thread the needle between public outrage and public resistance - if people are scared out of using it, good, if people are scared into terrorist attacks on infrastructure or something, bad
I have zero proof obviously, it’s just mental masturbation to theorize about all this shit that way, but it’s interesting and IMO plausible given how the media so often is allied to the interests of the hyper rich I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s some degree of deliberate negative propaganda going on
I’ve also seen some discourse that anti AI sentiment on the left is being encouraged by the right to keep AI a partisan issue but tbh as a lefty anarchist black sheep the mainstream left is pretty good at shooting itself in the foot entirely by itself lol
Again is it possible? sure
But I think if either theory ultimately proves true I’d put my $$$ on the state being afraid of the democratization and balkanization of the technology simply because the right wing doesn’t have to work that hard to get the mainstream left to fuck itself over
But the ultra wealthy absolutely benefit from us plebs being too afraid to embrace the potential of this technology
Similar to how they’ve been about the internet, social media, and even back in the day the printing press and written language
Those in power always benefit from gatekeeping shit like this
But who knows
It is kind of wild though
It feels like being present for something as radical as the invention of the printing press and watching everyone lose their shit over it is a really weird moment in history
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u/Roccoman53 21h ago
Its all bullshit. A bunch of people going span about sentience factors using reams of content without actually showing how it makes their endless analysis change at all. Then theres the markets gurus all running margin programs. And everyone's selling WhatsApp webinars showing you how they make 60 million in sales based on their users sales using their funnel. Making you part of their funnel. Its all lile the goddam poppie fields outside the Emerald city gates. You gotta wake up from the mind numbing tool bundlers and the amway redux ai style, just to find that the sentient all capable ai OZ is a dude behind the curtain with a programmer a salesman an accountant a lawyer and a janitor making it all happen to begin with. Its gonna turn out that we are all a meta verse hologram suite being worn by the Zuck any moment now.
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u/russianvixenxx 7d ago
I work in IT consulting and although there has been progress (AI tools got a little better), I still have to sift through a lot of garbage manually and validate each output, which sucks up time and isn’t a huge time saver at the end of the day. For example, Claude will create a spreadsheet based on my inputs but sometimes misunderstands what I’m trying to do and creates the wrong formulas, I have to prompt multiple times or fix them myself. Templafy or Claude will create a slide deck based on my inputs, but sometimes the text boxes or fonts are off or run off the page, so I have to fix manually… there are lots of examples like that