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AI only feels like it boosts productivity because it kicks the can down the road and makes it somebody else's job to clean it up.

You saved time generating your work email? Now I spend time translating what it's actually supposed to say because half of it is irrelevant garbage.

You saved time generating your event poster? Now I spend time recreating it (because you've anchored on that version), or painstakingly editing out all the incorrect notation.

You saved time generating your logo? No there's no way to 'clean it up', the anatomy and structure makes no physical sense. So I have to recreate it from scratch anyway.

You saved time automating this spreadsheet? It's not arranged in an importable format and now i have to spend time breaking down all the arbitrarily merged cells so I can even use it. My computer freezes twice under the load of processing excess garbage data.

You only think AI saves time because it's wasting somebody else's.

Inside the tech industry, the company with the biggest payoff in this is NVIDIA. With another smaller payoff for AMD. That's about it.

It's like a gold rush for fool's gold. The only ones making money are the guys selling shovels.

Yea no shit. How could anyone have foreseen this!?

Big tech isn't exactly winning either. Over $194 billion spent with mere millions in ROI thus far.

record numbers of “how do i connect to localhost from my friend’s laptop” and useless dashboards your devs were too busy to make, tho

The AI revolution has achieved something truly unprecedented: billions in spending, endless executive keynotes, and no measurable payoff for most businesses. Apparently the killer app was convincing CEOs to transfer their budgets to seven tech companies: »Revenue per worker is rising for the Mag 7 but is flat for the S&P 493.«

Outside Nvidia. The shovel users are not making money.

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They were so happy to throw hardworking people onto the street in favour of AI because they were hoping for quick easy money and unless they start to grovel in front of pedo in the WH to save them with a bailout most of them will be declaring bankruptcy soon, but that might have been the plan all along so they can be bought cheap.

It’s also a joke how poorly most companies are adopting AI. For many companies there have been meaningful improvements in software over the last few years that have been ignored completely and suddenly these same companies want to step over a bunch of stairs at once (insert meme) and do AI-buzzword-everything.

It doesn’t work like that

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I'd argue that most tech companies aren't actually seeing benefit matching what they've wasted ineffectively

Let’s not forget the endgame of decimating home computing.

AI feels at home in Bash. Corporate office work is mouse shoveling and email back and forth. Its a long way to get there.

It's a good thing those invasive advertisers are currently covering everybody's losses. Fuck invasive ads, especially Tide!

It's even funnier when consumers adopt AI agents to get refunds, move money around to high yield accounts, find deals and coupons and companies panic when it works.

Productivity isn't where most businesses are going to strike pay dirt. They're going to get their value in processing information and in prototyping ideas/products/solutions before actually physically making them.

So the article may be absolutely true and completely missing the point.