I find it annoying, because the hype means that if you’re not building a solution that involves AI in some way, you practically can’t get funding. Many vital projects are being cancelled due to a lack of funding and tons of bullshit projects get spun up, where they just slap AI onto a problem for which the current generation of AI is entirely ill-suited.

Basically, if you don’t care for building useful stuff, if you’re an opportunistic scammer, then the hype is fucking excellent. If you do care, then prepare for pain.

Idk my boss sometimes uses chatGPT to generate goofy (and appropriate) memes about the workplace from time to time…. That sort of seems to be about it.

We have CoPilot at my corporate job and I use it every day. Summarising email chains, reviewing documents and research. Its a huge time saver.

Its good, not perfect. It makes mistakes and because of hallucination risks i have to double check sources. I dont see it taking my job as its more like having an assistant whose output you have to sense check. Its made me much more productive.

A higher up really likes AI for simple proofs of concept, but at times they get so big it’s unusable. With the people on my team, however, bad code is synonymous to AI usage or stupidity (same thing)

Disclaimer: I only started working at this company about three weeks ago, so this info may not be as accurate as I currently think it is.

I work in quality management and recently asked my boss what the current stance on AI is, since he mentioned quite early that he and his colleagues sometimes use ChatGPT and Copilot in conjunction to write up some text for process descriptions or info pages. They use it in research tasks, or, for example, to summarize large documents like government regulations, and they very often use it to rephrase texts when they can’t think of a good way to word something. From his explanation, the company consensus seems to be that everyone has access to Copilot via our computers and if someone has, for example, a Kagi or Gemini or whatever subscription, we are absolutely allowed and encouraged to utilize it to its full potential.

The only rules seem to be to not blindly trust the AI output ever and to not feed it company sensitive information (and/or our suppliers/customers)

We had a discussion about AI at work. Our consensus was that it doesn’t matter how you want to do your work. What matters is the result, not the process. Are you writing clean code and on finishing tasks on time? That’s the metric. How you get there is up to you.

Everyone in my office hates it, including my director who occasionally ends up going on a rant because Microsoft and Adobe often end up pushing their AI to us when we don’t want it.

Sometimes I’m very thankful I work for a nonprofit. They’re still p shitty to us employees, but our focus is first and foremost on doing the job right, something AI has no chance at.

I work in social work; I would say about 60 percent of what I do is paperwork. My agency has told us not to use LLMs, as that would be a massive HIPPA nightmare. That being said, we use “secure” corporate emails. These use Microsoft 365 office suite, which are copilot enabled. These include TLDRs at the top, before you even look at the email, predictive texts… and not much else.

Would I love a bot who could spit out a Plan based on my notes or specifications? absolutely. Do I trust them not to make shit up. Absolutely not.

They just hopped onto the bandwagon pushing for copilot and SharePoint. Just in time as some states are switching to open source.

I’m a consultant so I’m doing a lot of different things day to day. We use it to track meetings with the copilot facilitator and meeting recaps and next steps. It is pretty helpful in that regard and often matches the tasks I write for myself during the meeting.

I also have to support a wide arrange of different systems and I can’t be an expert in all of them so it is helpful for generating short scripts and workflows if it is powershell one day, bash the next, exchange management etc. I do know powershell and bash scripting decently well and the scripts often need to be fixed but it is good at generating templates and starter scripts I flesh out as the need arises. At this point I’ve collected many of the useful ones I need in my repos and reuse them pretty often.

Lastly one of the companies I consult for uses machine learning to design medical implants and design and test novel materials and designs. That is pretty cool and I don’t think they could do some of the stuff they’re doing without machine learning. While still AI, it isn’t really GPT style generative AI though, not sure if that is what you’re asking.

I’m in an environment with various level of sensitive data, including very sensitive data. Think GDPR type stuff you really don’t want to accidentally leak.

One day when we started up our company laptops Copilot just was installed and auto launched on startup. Nobody warned us. No indication about how to use it or not use it. That lasted about 3 months. Eventually they limited some ways of using it, gave a little bit of guidance on not putting the most sensitive data in there. Then they enabled Copilot in most apps that we use to actually process the sensitive data. It’s in everything. We are actively encouraged to learn more about it and use it.

I overheard a colleague recently trying to let it create a whole PowerPoint presentation. From what I heard the results were less than ideal.

The scary thing is that I’m in a notoriously risk averse industry. Yet they do this. It’s… a choice.

The order is:
Use whatever tool is not malicious and doesnt attack customer data.

Most use (IMO) way too much AI. The first result (the google AI answer) is trusted and done.
No research done beyond that.

I purposefully blocked the AI answer in uBlock. I don’t want any of that.
Besides that I use it on occassion to look for a word or reword my search query if I don’t find or know what I am looking for.
Very useful for the “What was the name of X again? It does Y and Z” queries.
Also for Powershell scripting because it can give me examples on using it.

But every asnwer is double and tripple checked for accuracy.
Seen too much news about made up answers.

At home I usually only use it for bash scripting because I can’t be bothered to learn that.

it doesn’t exist. but i work for a company that does real work. it doesn’t bullshit.

I use Excel at work, not in a traditional accounting sense, but my company uses it as an interface with one of our systems I frequently work with.

Rather than tediously search the main Excel sheets that get fed into that system for all of the data fields I have to fill in, I made separate Excel tools that consolidate all of that data, then use macros to put the data into the correct fields on the main sheets for me.

Occasionally I’ll have to add new functionality to that sheet, so I’ll ask AI to write the macro code that does what I need it to do.

Saves me from having to learn obscure VBA programming to perform a function that I do during .0001% of my work time, but that’s about the extent of it. For now.

Of course most of what I do is white collar computer work, so I’m expecting that my current job likely has a two-year-or-less countdown on it before they decide to use AI to replace me.

I work for a small advertising agency as a web developer. I’d say is mixed. The writing team is pissed about AI, because of the SEO-optimized slop garbage that is ruining enjoyable articles on the internet. The video team enjoys it, because it’s really easy to generate good (enough) looking VFX with it. I use it rarely. Mostly for mundane tasks and boilerplate code. I enjoy using my actual brain to solve coding problems.

Customers don’t have a fucking clue, of course. If we told them that they need AI for some stupid reason, they would probably believe us.

The boss is letting us decide and not forcing anything upon us. If we believe our work is done better with it, we can go for it, but we don’t have to. Good boss.