Mixed
Occasionally ChatGPT helps me do something in 2 minutes that might have taken me 30 minutes to figure out, but it is not an earth-shattering productivity multiplier that the industry is hyping it to be
GiorgioG on Hacker News
2 minutes that might have taken me 30 minutes
In the thread “Ask HN: Has HN become too skewed towards AI/LLM?”, replying to this comment
Helped: Solving specific problems faster than manual research.
Got in the way: Overall job nature and productivity levels remained unchanged.
… I'm still knee-deep in the same shit that I've been doing for 20 odd years and AI hasn't changed a thing about my job. Occasionally ChatGPT helps me do something in 2 minutes that might have taken me 30 minutes to figure out, but it is not an earth-shattering productivity multiplier that the industry is hyping it to be.