I'm usually skeptical of doomer articles about new technology like this one, but reluctantly find myself agreeing with a lot of it. While AI is a great tool with many possibilities, I don't see the alignment of what many of these new AI startups are selling.

It makes my work more productive, yes. But it often slows me down too. Knowing when to push back on the response you get is often difficult to get right.

This quote in particular:

>Surveys confirm that for many workers, AI tools like ChatGPT reduce their productivity by increasing the volume of content and steps needed to complete a given task, and by frequently introducing errors that have to be checked and corrected.

This sort of mirrors my work as a SWE. It does increase productivity and can reduce lead times for task completion. But requires a lot of checking and pushback.

There's a large gap between increased productivity in the right field in the right hands vs copying and pasting a solution everywhere so companies don't need workers.

And that's really what most of these AI firms are selling. A solution to automate most workers out of existence.