Anonymous
01/23/2026 10:48
Subject: Has using AI (ChatGPT etc…) reduced the number of hours you work?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:No. Who is allowed to use AI for their job?!
literally everyone?
We’re not allowed to use it at my massive employer. National security field.
Models are in FedRAMP high environments. They're using it at DoD, the FFRDCs, the NSA. Who has banned this?
We’re private sector. What they use at the agencies doesn’t apply to us.
If govies are using a technology and you're not allowed to, that's really saying something about your org.
No. It says something about the US government.
We would have to develop our own closed model in order for it to be secure, or at least mostly secure. As you can see from the responses to this thread, there is no business case here. It doesn’t save time and will only cost money. Anything we build will be old tech five minutes later. It doesn’t make financial sense and it doesn’t make workflow sense.
Anonymous
01/23/2026 10:31
Subject: Has using AI (ChatGPT etc…) reduced the number of hours you work?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I use AI for stupid tasks and then bank the saved time to tackle more difficult ones/learning.
Why kind of stupid tasks?
I work in tech and occasionally some exec has this brilliant idea they want to bring to life, so I build them a fast prototype so they can peddle it to no one that cares. I just automate it with Claude and a stack of technologies that will get me through the exercise with the least amount of meetings.
Is Claude better for technical stuff?
Yes. I'm not necessarily enthusiastic about it, but many big corp/enterprise coding tasks are boilerplate at this point. In the long run it will probably create a generation of stunted minds running it on autoplay, and someone will have to clean up the increasing amount of bad software and security issues as a result. But many SWE jobs are going to be replaced by these tools in the near/mid term.
Anonymous
01/22/2026 21:23
Subject: Has using AI (ChatGPT etc…) reduced the number of hours you work?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:No. Who is allowed to use AI for their job?!
literally everyone?
We’re not allowed to use it at my massive employer. National security field.
Models are in FedRAMP high environments. They're using it at DoD, the FFRDCs, the NSA. Who has banned this?
We’re private sector. What they use at the agencies doesn’t apply to us.
Well level up.
Level up why? To use AI in the workplace?
Yes hon. It’s like saying you don’t wanna “go to the cloud”. Or learn call waiting. Or wanna learn how to use the Internet . Or you don’t want to use computers you’d rather use a typewriter.
You better educate yourself on AI or you’re gonna be left behind.
NP. It's not an issue of education, it's that AI is not fit for every possible purpose. It's a tool, and you don't use the same tool for every job. To use your example, people do in fact prefer typewriters in remote places with unreliable electricity: you could crank a generator to power your tablet, or you could just get on with your work on a typewriter.
My workplace could, in theory, completely reconfigure everything so that my job could be done by AI. It would be a massive undertaking and the only payout would be replacing my one little job. Not worth it.
Okay Jan.
Heavy sigh.
INTC
Anonymous
01/22/2026 21:22
Subject: Has using AI (ChatGPT etc…) reduced the number of hours you work?
Claude does everything for me now. Probably shaved 5-10 hours a week for me of BS writing and editing that I have to do.
Anonymous
01/22/2026 21:19
Subject: Has using AI (ChatGPT etc…) reduced the number of hours you work?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:No. Who is allowed to use AI for their job?!
literally everyone?
We’re not allowed to use it at my massive employer. National security field.
Models are in FedRAMP high environments. They're using it at DoD, the FFRDCs, the NSA. Who has banned this?
We’re private sector. What they use at the agencies doesn’t apply to us.
Well level up.
Level up why? To use AI in the workplace?
Yes hon. It’s like saying you don’t wanna “go to the cloud”. Or learn call waiting. Or wanna learn how to use the Internet . Or you don’t want to use computers you’d rather use a typewriter.
You better educate yourself on AI or you’re gonna be left behind.
NP. It's not an issue of education, it's that AI is not fit for every possible purpose. It's a tool, and you don't use the same tool for every job. To use your example, people do in fact prefer typewriters in remote places with unreliable electricity: you could crank a generator to power your tablet, or you could just get on with your work on a typewriter.
My workplace could, in theory, completely reconfigure everything so that my job could be done by AI. It would be a massive undertaking and the only payout would be replacing my one little job. Not worth it.
Anonymous
01/22/2026 21:15
Subject: Has using AI (ChatGPT etc…) reduced the number of hours you work?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:No. Who is allowed to use AI for their job?!
literally everyone?
We’re not allowed to use it at my massive employer. National security field.
Models are in FedRAMP high environments. They're using it at DoD, the FFRDCs, the NSA. Who has banned this?
We’re private sector. What they use at the agencies doesn’t apply to us.
If govies are using a technology and you're not allowed to, that's really saying something about your org.
Anonymous
01/22/2026 21:07
Subject: Has using AI (ChatGPT etc…) reduced the number of hours you work?
Anonymous wrote:No. Who is allowed to use AI for their job?!
Almost everyone? It’s highly encouraged.
Anonymous
01/22/2026 21:06
Subject: Has using AI (ChatGPT etc…) reduced the number of hours you work?
No, it has made more work for me. I am editor and the fools around me use GenAI and give me stuff that needs a lot of editing and rewriting. Worst invention ever.
Anonymous
01/22/2026 21:02
Subject: Has using AI (ChatGPT etc…) reduced the number of hours you work?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:No. Who is allowed to use AI for their job?!
literally everyone?
We’re not allowed to use it at my massive employer. National security field.
Models are in FedRAMP high environments. They're using it at DoD, the FFRDCs, the NSA. Who has banned this?
We’re private sector. What they use at the agencies doesn’t apply to us.
Well level up.
Level up why? To use AI in the workplace?
Yes hon. It’s like saying you don’t wanna “go to the cloud”. Or learn call waiting. Or wanna learn how to use the Internet . Or you don’t want to use computers you’d rather use a typewriter.
You better educate yourself on AI or you’re gonna be left behind.
I guess my thousands of coworkers and I will have to spend the additional 15 minutes needed to get caught up on how to use AI in the workplace. Thanks for the heads up.
Anonymous
01/22/2026 20:20
Subject: Has using AI (ChatGPT etc…) reduced the number of hours you work?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I use AI for stupid tasks and then bank the saved time to tackle more difficult ones/learning.
Why kind of stupid tasks?
I work in tech and occasionally some exec has this brilliant idea they want to bring to life, so I build them a fast prototype so they can peddle it to no one that cares. I just automate it with Claude and a stack of technologies that will get me through the exercise with the least amount of meetings.
Is Claude better for technical stuff?
NP
My coworker prefers Gemini I like ChatGPT there’s Claude.
You need to try them all and figure out which one works best for you
Anonymous
01/22/2026 20:19
Subject: Has using AI (ChatGPT etc…) reduced the number of hours you work?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:No. Who is allowed to use AI for their job?!
literally everyone?
We’re not allowed to use it at my massive employer. National security field.
Models are in FedRAMP high environments. They're using it at DoD, the FFRDCs, the NSA. Who has banned this?
We’re private sector. What they use at the agencies doesn’t apply to us.
Well level up.
Level up why? To use AI in the workplace?
Yes hon. It’s like saying you don’t wanna “go to the cloud”. Or learn call waiting. Or wanna learn how to use the Internet . Or you don’t want to use computers you’d rather use a typewriter.
You better educate yourself on AI or you’re gonna be left behind.
Anonymous
01/22/2026 20:19
Subject: Has using AI (ChatGPT etc…) reduced the number of hours you work?
No. No time saved.
Anonymous
01/22/2026 20:04
Subject: Has using AI (ChatGPT etc…) reduced the number of hours you work?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:No. Who is allowed to use AI for their job?!
literally everyone?
We’re not allowed to use it at my massive employer. National security field.
Models are in FedRAMP high environments. They're using it at DoD, the FFRDCs, the NSA. Who has banned this?
We’re private sector. What they use at the agencies doesn’t apply to us.
Well level up.
Level up why? To use AI in the workplace?
Anonymous
01/22/2026 19:46
Subject: Has using AI (ChatGPT etc…) reduced the number of hours you work?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I use AI for stupid tasks and then bank the saved time to tackle more difficult ones/learning.
Why kind of stupid tasks?
I work in tech and occasionally some exec has this brilliant idea they want to bring to life, so I build them a fast prototype so they can peddle it to no one that cares. I just automate it with Claude and a stack of technologies that will get me through the exercise with the least amount of meetings.
Is Claude better for technical stuff?
Anonymous
01/22/2026 19:40
Subject: Has using AI (ChatGPT etc…) reduced the number of hours you work?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:No. Who is allowed to use AI for their job?!
literally everyone?
We’re not allowed to use it at my massive employer. National security field.
Models are in FedRAMP high environments. They're using it at DoD, the FFRDCs, the NSA. Who has banned this?
We’re private sector. What they use at the agencies doesn’t apply to us.
Well level up.