How much do you use ai to write or as a work tool?

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Anonymous wrote:I am a school principal, and using AI to write evaluations has given me back years of my life. I take copious notes when I’m observing and have great reflection conferences with teachers. That is where the real work happens—in the conversation. But then I have to write everything up which takes forever. Using AI has changed that. Of course, it’s only as good as what I put in and what I check.

It may not be doing you as many favors as you think. I could tell my supervisor did my annual plan using AI and it made me livid. Like another poster said, I'm not even worth my boss's time once a year anymore? Blech.

Tying this back to the original question from OP, I'd be ok if my boss told me they used AI to help them write it to save time. Passing it off as your own is insulting. Your staff isn't telling that to your face because, well, you're the boss. Don't be naive to think that they aren't talking amongst themselves about it though.

You don’t appear to understand how current AI tools work. The pp said she wrote her own notes and used the AI to format it into an evaluation. That’s totally appropriate and I would not be upset if my supervisor did it.

There is a big difference between asking an LLM to write a structured document based on data you feed it and asking it to write something from scratch. LLMs excel at taking data and turning them into structured document. They excel at “structured” language in general like computer code, regulatory writing, etc.

Okay. I probably don't understand. But, similar to the principal, I had a conversation with my boss about what I'd being doing over the year like projects I'd be working on and what would be a measurement of success. So far, so good. But then the document itself was just bizarre, and the content didn't seem like something a human would come up with. It had nothing to do with MY use of it, it was completely how my boss used it and it fell flat. Maybe my boss doesn't understand how current AI tools work.

Ok. Think of the LLM as an intern. Let's say your boss goes to the intern and says "write an evaluation for Larla giving her a 4/5 and mentioning a few areas of improvement." The intern will come up with kind of a vague document based on those limited instructions.

But let's say you give your intern a complete set of notes and a template showing exactly how the evaluation should look. What will the intern come up with then?

That is the difference between putting prompts in the software versus understanding that the software is a pattern recognition tool and that if you input data (the employee's performance, a template for what your evaluation needs to include) it can spit out exactly what you need (a structured, formatted evaluation based on notes).

People criticize the tool without understanding what it is or what its capabilities are.

I have supervised interns and am not interested in supervising a non-human intern. I write my own stuff.

[Anonymous]

I write and analyze for a living.

Do you know how much of my writing is AI-generated or edited? Zero. Zilch. None.

I use AI occasionally as a research tool, but I triple-check the output.

Otherwise, I do my own work.

[Anonymous]

Daily. Typically to write emails. I put my thoughts in non coherent order without proper grammer and get full paragraphs back. Saves me tons of time and i think it captures my tone fine enough.