Mixed
My entire job is now AI orchestration, and then a LOT of my time spent writing the specs/prompts, reviewing and validating the output imperfectly and generally being very paranoid
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Helped: Speed over manual work and reduced need for tribal knowledge.
Got in the way: Output slop and the need for constant paranoid review.
I think the biggest phase transition happened roughly fall of last year with AI adoption. My entire job is now AI orchestration, and then a LOT of my time spent writing the specs/prompts, reviewing and validating the output imperfectly and generally being very paranoid. But it's to a point where no one I know really has a choice but to work like this because doing things by hand is just way slower, even though I find slop to be like nails on a chalkboard. …