Bosses say AI boosts productivity – workers say they're drowning in 'workslop'

Many times my design day job is now about fixing hallucinated ai assisted designs prompted by incompetent people.

I mean, there's truth on both sides here. Essentially LLMs are good at some stuff bad at others. If you don't use the tool appropriately you are going to hurt yourself. And at the moment there really isn't a very good opinionated good workflow framework for early adopters. Which means unless you have senior engineers the results can be varied.

I can tell you it's saved the day for me on a few occasions and lord knows it can parse docs better than any human and give you what you want in a clear cogent manner. But it's sometimes flat out wrong, and it's sometimes making things harder than you want, or isn't very context aware no matter how much you try to point it in the right direction.

But it's still good at stuff and saves time.

Early adopter pain is early adopter pain.

What scares me more is we are trading short term gains for long term losses here. And we are destroying the feeder system for senior engineers... and that's going to end horrifically.