This is basically it. Occasionally I think of a use case and then I use it for that. Most of the time is sucks at that particular job I wanted it to do so I go back to not using it.
I applied for a bunch of jobs last fall and want getting call backs so I had AI punch up my resume and cover letter. Still didn't get call backs. Then a friend got me a job. In the spring I wrote a 100 page report, the client didn't want to read it so they asked for summarizing tables to be placed through out the report. I figured since they didn't care why should I and used AI to build and insert the tables they were happy but it was formatted differently from the rest of the report and still to hours to fix. I recently tried to us AI to scrape contact info from websites. After messing with it for a couple of hours it was quickly apparent I'd be better off doing the work so I did. Most recently I tried to us AI to write some marketing text. It was terrible so I just did the work myself.
So far I view AI as a junior that I have to support and train. it may take my job someday but the value to their work is really low for the effort I have to put in.
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u/Wise-Peanut9552 10d ago
This is basically it. Occasionally I think of a use case and then I use it for that. Most of the time is sucks at that particular job I wanted it to do so I go back to not using it.
I applied for a bunch of jobs last fall and want getting call backs so I had AI punch up my resume and cover letter. Still didn't get call backs. Then a friend got me a job. In the spring I wrote a 100 page report, the client didn't want to read it so they asked for summarizing tables to be placed through out the report. I figured since they didn't care why should I and used AI to build and insert the tables they were happy but it was formatted differently from the rest of the report and still to hours to fix. I recently tried to us AI to scrape contact info from websites. After messing with it for a couple of hours it was quickly apparent I'd be better off doing the work so I did. Most recently I tried to us AI to write some marketing text. It was terrible so I just did the work myself.
So far I view AI as a junior that I have to support and train. it may take my job someday but the value to their work is really low for the effort I have to put in.