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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pp who works with AI agents - np above is on point. The author is on the inside and frankly doing a public service

Claude skills and cowork has rocked a lot of companies this January. Everyone is sprinting to adopt - it’s not hype or futurist predictions anymore. [/quote]

This post is such transparent marketing hype. This is all a desperate attempt to make AI happen as these overvalued companies are hemorrhaging money in this silly endeavor.[/quote]

I’m the np above.  Look, I get it, I’m skeptical and lean towards being a Luddite.  And AI can do dumb things. [b]One of my co-workers described it as like working with an eager intern who needs to be reined in sometimes.  But the changes are real.  The improvements in its quality are exponential. [/b]

I don’t really know what this means for the future of work, especially for my kids who are still in high school, but this isn’t smoke blowing. Disruptive change is coming. [/quote]

Ok but what ARE the changes?  What are the exponential improvements?  Where can I look and see for myself something completed with AI that is really mind-blowing?  People keep talking about AI doing things but provide no evidence of AI actually doing the thing.  This is not coming from a place of skepticism; it’s just a basic question that no one seems able to answer.[/quote]

Because the improvements are in the business processes.  [b]Speed-to-market, faster QA.[/b]  It’s the same work, just faster and with less people.

What field are you in?  Has AI not come up as a topic there yet?[/quote]

I am in a legal environment and I am the only one of my colleagues who finds any use for AI in the first place, but [b]those uses are limited given the hallucination rates.[/b]

You terminology is so vague.  HOW does AI speed up these processes?  [/quote]

"If you tried ChatGPT in 2023 or early 2024 and thought "this makes stuff up" or "this isn't that impressive", you were right. Those early versions were genuinely limited. They hallucinated. They confidently said things that were nonsense.

That was two years ago. In AI time, that is ancient history.

The models available today are unrecognizable from what existed even six months ago. The debate about whether AI is "really getting better" or "hitting a wall" — which has been going on for over a year — is over. It's done. Anyone still making that argument either hasn't used the current models, has an incentive to downplay what's happening, or is evaluating based on an experience from 2024 that is no longer relevant. I don't say that to be dismissive. I say it because the gap between public perception and current reality is now enormous, and that gap is dangerous... because it's preventing people from preparing."[/quote]

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