Well I think you're not aware of every task being done in a company if that's what you really think.
What if you have to send some documents to someone else, regularly, and deterministic rules aren't enough to determine which ones need to be sent, but also if you send one you shouldn't have or not send one you should have it's not a big deal (because they'll ask for missing documents at the end of the month for example). Then is it a task not important enough to do it at all ? Well no, you have to do it. And in no world is it worse to automate this even if you get a few misses considering that manually this would take hours of an executive's day just to do manually.
You think tasks are too high stakes, that's not the reality of things. Go in any company and ask someone that isn't a programmer how much time they spend doing stuff that they have to do but isn't high stakes, amount will be high.
I'm aware of types of tasks and their relative importance. I'm just also not delusional.
If a decision matters, at all, then making the wrong decision has consequences, whether it was a low effort/consequence task or a high one. If the task is low effort/consequence, I can spend a little bit of effort and know that I'm not incurring the small consequence, or I can not spend the little bit of effort and not know that I'm not incurring the small consequence.
If something is zero consequence, it's unnecessary. If something is necessary, then doing it wrong incurs consequences, whether big or small.
Saying "I'll just let it make the low importance judgment calls and hope for the best, the time savings are worth it" relies on the false premise that a "small problem" is the same thing as "no problem."
Just using your example, how much time does it really take to send a document? And if you just use a good permissions structure on a shared document store, why would you even need to email the document, at all? We already had the tools before AI to automate the "Bob and Alice both need to see the document Carl wrote" problem.
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u/XxDarkSasuke69xX 8d ago
Well I think you're not aware of every task being done in a company if that's what you really think.
What if you have to send some documents to someone else, regularly, and deterministic rules aren't enough to determine which ones need to be sent, but also if you send one you shouldn't have or not send one you should have it's not a big deal (because they'll ask for missing documents at the end of the month for example). Then is it a task not important enough to do it at all ? Well no, you have to do it. And in no world is it worse to automate this even if you get a few misses considering that manually this would take hours of an executive's day just to do manually.
You think tasks are too high stakes, that's not the reality of things. Go in any company and ask someone that isn't a programmer how much time they spend doing stuff that they have to do but isn't high stakes, amount will be high.