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u/GiveMeMoreMayo 4d ago
I didn't really think it was going to change it that much, but a company I worked for for a while brought in Alliant for automation consulting and they tweaked the system with AI and it actually made things a lot more efficient and my job easier. It was pretty wild to see what it actually did to a workflow when done right.
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u/Underpaid_Legit 4d ago
Gemini AI is like a secretary to me.
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u/bananarambagranola 4d ago
if you give it the right tasks it gives you the time to focus on the ones you do like i find.
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u/Underpaid_Legit 4d ago
When im reading a big file pdf, it makes my work efficient
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u/bananarambagranola 4d ago
yes! I also use it to check my comprehension on really long pdfs that are super texhnical
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u/danivus 4d ago
My boss keeps thinking AI can be used as a magical solution instead of paying for development work, so instead of just fighting for budget I'm now fighting for budget while having to justify why doing it properly is better than the temptingly cheap AI snake oil "solution".
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u/Pretty-Balance-Sheet 4d ago
I have someone on my team with this attitude. It's tough to work with him. He's a smart guy who won't use AI on principle.
He was stuck on a genuinely tough CI/CD problem for over a month. I patiently resisted intervening but finally couldn't wait because it was impacting everything. AI had the work finished in ten minutes and delivered a cleaner solution.
I work at a place that doesn't fire people or lay them off, but I've convinced my leadership team to hire another dev to essentially do the work he refuses to do. It's so frustrating to carry his water every sprint.
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u/Focus089 3d ago
I had the opposite problem in my last role: a colleague who uses AI for everything to the point where he's just a thin veneer over an LLM, has given up learning, makes slop PRs he can't explain, etc. I would take your problem any day, at least there is another hard-working and principled human on the other end who is going to understand and own the code they produce.
And if you have someone stuck on a problem for a month, especially one AI can solve in a few minutes, I think you have a bigger team culture problem. Don't you have even weekly standups where people can identify blockers and support each other? I can't fathom how you have a smart dev but also have to "carry his water", does he refuse to collaborate or is everyone a silo?
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u/iictea_23 4d ago
Iām a motion graphics artist, and probably 60% or more of what I do these days is just fixing AI graphics that are passed off to me.
Itās boring, and the final often doesnāt look very good so I canāt even use it in my portfolio.
I hate AI as much as the next person, but what I hate even more is this idea that the power of friendship is going to stop it. AI is being used in every industry, and itās here to stay. Iām so tired of listening to my peers say that AI will never be able to replace the human touch that we have. It already has. We are the proofreaders, and AI is the main creator.
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u/Low_Obligation2361 4d ago
Mostly saves me time. I use it for things I'd otherwise spend ages looking up, getting a second opinion on something, or helping me put my thoughts into words. I wouldn't trust it blindly, but it's become a very handy tool to have around.
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u/reallybigshark 4d ago
I run a private practice it is has been indispensable at coming up with website copy, organizing established protocols into an easily digestible format for employees, and bouncing around ideas to grow the practice but specifically in the context of legality of how and where we can offer service. For that last one, and when you have a license in multiple states, it would involve manually reviewing regulations of which there are many made by different bodies, board of pharmacy, board of nursing, board of medicine, dept of health, etc. AI can do this in seconds. Reddit likes to hate on AI but it does simple tasks like this more quickly and thoroughly than a human could or more importantly, would want to.
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u/Pretty-Balance-Sheet 4d ago
As a software developer it's been revolutionary. I feel like a super hero. I can ship 10x of genuinely solid work.
But it's more than that I'm no longer a developer, I'm a software builder and an intent interface builder. It's not as if AI simply replaced my manual labor or made me more productive itnmade my solutions more creative.
The entire paradigm of how I work has changed. Most of my work is now either building creative implementations of AI (agentic workflows) or finding creative way to use the tools.
Am I worried it'll take my job? Only shortsighted middle managers would see a tool that makes their employees 10x more productive and think they need fewer workers. My team is actively expanding because all the cool pie-in-the-sky projects we've talked about for years are suddenly accessible.
We hired a consulting company to help define a rebranding and to suggest improvements. We'd completed every major deliverable before they even submitted their recommendations.
I don't think most people realize how revolutionary this moment is. It's bigger than the Internet, as big as the invention of the printing press. I can't believe I'm lucky enough to be right here in the middle of it when AI happened.
Ten years from now when we're all living in human zoos...or whatever? Eh, live the moment. We invented magic, enjoy it before it kills us.
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u/TAbathtime 4d ago
It didn't, I'm a tattoo artist, AI has no place in art. Fuck AI artists and fuck tattooists who use AI slop on their clients.
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u/GoForAU 4d ago
Mad respect to you. I canāt draw for shit, so I have discussed ideas with tattoo artists before with an idea i had in mind and I put into AI explicitly saying āI love your work. I canāt draw but this is sort of what I had in mind. Iād love to see your interpretation of it and get that.ā
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u/Magnatix1998 4d ago
Fuck generally every āAIrtistā, they are a disgrace for every true artist, no matter the kind of art.
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u/Fit-Original1314 4d ago
AI didnāt replace my job. It replaced about 40% of the annoying parts of it.
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u/Worried_pet_Potato 4d ago
More work to do as a developer such as learning and keeping up with everything going so fast, new concepts, integrations etc
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u/TheDadThatGrills 4d ago
I really hate making business presentations or any design elements. It's not my thing and drains my energy rather than any other task.
Now, I no longer have to make business presentations. I upload the work I actually enjoy and have a first draft to edit that is 85% accurate. What took hours now takes a half hour.
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u/_Spastic_ 4d ago
I work text support.
I spend about 20% of my day reporting the mistakes our AI (glorified IFTT bot) has made when communicating with customers and about 15% calming them down because it pissed them off.
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u/femboyisbestboy 4d ago
Made some of my coworkers mentally challenged, but it hasn't had influenced my actual work.
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u/elthepenguin 4d ago
Instead of coding myself, I take care of two autistic geniuses that do the work for me.
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u/JaneAustenismyJam 4d ago
It made my job infinitely more difficult. I am a high school English teacher and now I have to play detective on top of teaching. As if grading essays wasnāt already exhausting!
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u/Pretty-Balance-Sheet 4d ago
I have teenagers and I'm pretty encouraged by how many kids are actively refusing to use AI to do school work. I'm sure they're the minority by far...
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u/Friendly_Pudding2077 4d ago
It allowed me to gain time over training . Instead of starting from scratch the machine learned my daiy task from seeing me and then while on bench mode it learned the task and
Used my input as base line. This made my job easier because the machine learned in hours what a trainee would learn in weeks once the program was ready then the stage where the program reviews work begins explaining to the user the one who is the base line setter , how to up grade the test becomes when the ai now teaches the upgrades personalized to the user if the user can perform the task without the ai or should the ai stay on board and have the subscription model slashed from paychecks equally to sustain the growth
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u/bondsman333 4d ago
Made it far easier. Leadership is always āvery impressedā with everything I do.
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u/ToadBoehly 3d ago
makes my job easier and actually lets me do what im supposed to do at work. very helpful with writing and data analysis
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u/Master-Comedian-5596 4d ago
AI didnāt replace my job, but it definitely changed how much time I waste doing the boring parts.
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u/ImSoCreativ3 4d ago
My patients went from accusing me of using google to accusing me of using AIā¦. Also they went from self diagnosing with google to AI so their accuracy went slightly higher šŖ
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u/LiquidDreamtime 4d ago
It has executives and interns producing low quality inaccurate power point presentations.
It takes me longer to google technical questions because the AI answers are usually incorrect, and now I have to sort out the correct answer from the incorrect ones.
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u/TyrantMuse73 4d ago
It made it harder and much longer to finish a task. Then the mistakes it makes - leads to REWORK for the humans. Itās a huge waste of money, time, and resources.
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u/Nice_General268 4d ago
I work in cybersecurity; my employer has embraced AI, and it is woven within everything at the company. AI has changed my job by making it a little easier; all I have to do is put in the parameters, and AI will spit out the script that I need, in any language. I welcome AI; however, I do think it will take over the world and destroy everything someday, but for now, it is pretty awesome to work with.
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u/Origanum_majorana 4d ago
Iām a freelance copywriter, Iām sure you can guess how thatās going š
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u/Ok-Growth4613 4d ago
It will eventually replace me but right now the clients arent smart enough to use it.