AI at work
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Reinventing the wheel, and then reinventing it again
Last week, I saw three different solutions to the same problem, created by three different people, with varying degrees of AI assistance to identify actions with the most impact. Each one was developed independently of the others. Each one had a different angle of approach. Each one identified a different set of actions. And these…
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The revolution won’t be televised, but it might go underground
Despite the hype, despite the clarion call to action, despite the mandates, roughly half of the individual contributors in the U.S. aren’t using AI very much, and about half of those folks aren’t using AI at all. Half. No or not much AI. So sayeth Gallup. The article mentions some predictable signals of lack of…
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Your AI learning curve is tech-ier than just the AI
As workers at tech companies are sometimes wont to do — even in non-tech roles like mine — I had occasion last week to audit 1,500 Git repository logs and tally up recent code reviews and commits to help gauge activity levels. Back in the day, I would have had to check these manually one…
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The road to burnout is paved with workslop
High on the list of Office Menaces, right up there with fish in the microwave and meetings that could have been an email, we have … workslop. If you haven’t had the pleasure of experiencing it yet, workslop refers to a clearly AI-generated something that is presented as completed work yet merely resembles actual completed…
