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Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week
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this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2025
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Does anyone here actually see productivity improvements to their roles from using AI?
I'm a telecoms engineer and I see limited use cases in my role for AI. If I need to process data then I need something that can do math reliably. For document generation I can only reliably get it to build out a structure and even then I've more than likely got an existing document the I can use as a structure template.
Network design, system specification and project engineering are all so specific to the use case and have so few examples provided in public data sets that anything AI outputs is usually nonsense.
Am I missing some use cases here?
Also, if you do see productivity improvements from AI, why would you tell your employer? They want a 5 day working week but they know what they expect to be achieved in that week, so that's what they get.
I find it useful for correcting my syntax (when it's correct ๐) for certain networking devices. I touch so many vendors it's not always one I can remember all the commands for.
It's kinda become a Google replacement for me.
I have found certain areas it's weak and I know when to quit when I'm ahead and it just agrees with me and spits out more incorrect info when I call it out.
Also when are we going to hit an AI feedback loop? ๐
I find the AI summary can be helpful when searching, but also not much more helpful than a summary of the first few search results which are mostly only loosely related paid for advertising ..