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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As I see all these corporate layoff announcements that vaguely reference AI efficiencies, I can't help but think about how terrible all the AI implementation has been at my company.  Maybe we're some kind of outlier, but all the attempts at AI have either been counterproductive in terms of efficiency or just generally useless.  Our accounting/finance department tried to AI pilot for vendor invoices and the error rates were sky high.  We've also tried using AI in writing proposals, but the teams have spent more time trying to get the data into a format that the AI can use than they would have taken just writing the proposal themselves.  We have an internal AI chatbot that is pretty useless and in a text format so I have to transfer it over to a powerpoint or whatever format I need it for.  I've tried it on a number of projects and it spits out junk.  The only thing it seems to do well is summarize long text and recordings of meetings.  We also now have an AI voice doing all the internal trainings, which I suppose saves some small amount of time for whoever used to record that.  I have heard that some folks who do software development say it has increased efficiency for them, although even there I've heard about the developers finding out after the fact that the AI created flawed code that took time to fix.

I've also seen a bunch of reports that seem to confirm my experience.  https://cmr.berkeley.edu/2025/10/seven-myths-about-ai-and-productivity-what-the-evidence-really-says/

Is anyone else seeing real gains?[/quote]

So, the only real-world use of AI that i see working is for companies like where my kid works.  He and other are ML engineers, SWE, etc...and they use AI in real-time as an extension of their development.  They will write some code, then have AI write 50 lines of code to finish their thought, then correct the AI in real-time and then keep going.

He will admit that it's generally a disaster to have AI write thousands of lines of code because it will take you longer to fix all the errors, then a human writing it from scratch.  However, he is insanely more productive vs. just 2 years ago the way he incorporates it.

So, by default if someone like my kid is now 5x more productive, well you need fewer people overall...unless you decide you will try to launch 5x more products or dramatically reduce upgrade launches, etc.

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