AI promised efficiency. Instead, it's making us work harder

Re:AI promised efficiency. Instead, it's making us work harder by alexander2002 on Monday August 04, 2025 @12:43PM (#44788271)

AI is like a giant calculator you need a formula to make it work for your usecase

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Re:AI promised efficiency. Instead, it's making us work harder by liveoneggs on Monday August 04, 2025 @12:57PM (#44788500)

Calculators are mostly deterministic and AI is explicitly not.

When computers give different answers to the same questions it's a fundamental shift in how we work with them.

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Re:AI promised efficiency. Instead, it's making us work harder by asciii on Monday August 04, 2025 @12:51PM (#44788394)

That's a great analogy. I recently read about integrating AI similar to the use of calculators in math class -- learn how to do the basic operations first +,-,/,* and then use calculator to scale so you get some theoretical grounding

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Re:AI promised efficiency. Instead, it's making us work harder by SamInTheShell on Monday August 04, 2025 @12:54PM (#44788443)

Accurate. It's autocomplete on steroids.

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