AI is cutting hours of office work, but also creating a new kind of busywork

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6. I agree that the high achievers are cheating themselves - IMO by using AI at all, but at least they spend

more time fixing the output and trying to get prompts and data given to AI to work. So hopefully they aren't shipping as much botshit.

But this study compares self-reported productivity, and the self-reported high achievers' attitude toward AI shows at least early signs of AI addiction. They consider AI a valuable teacher, consider AI easier to work with than human colleagues, use "unapproved" AI away from work, use AI for social media and content creation (slop-happy?), use AI to "attend" meetings, and trust AI as a coworker. I don't think people that crazy about AI can really be trusted to report accurately on just how productive AI supposedly makes them.

I'd guess that a lot of AI-dependent junior developers I've read about, the type that senior developers often have to clean up after, would still consider themselves high achievers.