I work in IT, and surprisingly I use AI for about 5% of my work. Mainly because the suggestions are almost always useless and if I’m troubleshooting, I don’t exactly want to sit here reading irrelevant AI summaries of menu options that don’t even exist. I still use it for scripting, but I audit the output entirely and test it out before deploying it widely. Call / meeting transcript summaries are also very helpful and other menial tasks like powerpoint creation.
But my coworker is senior to me by a couple years and he’s technically my direct report. And I’ve stood behind him and watched him frantically type what users describe to him during a live call into Claude and follow the suggestions line by line and get frustrated when they don’t work, and then turn to me and ask me what I think without really trying anything himself. I feel like I’ve solved more of his problems than him solving mine. Every single troubleshooting call, claude is pulled up immediately.
A lot of the issues are either repeat or similar to each other, and even without detailed documentation I think one should be able to recognize some patterns and know what to look at first. But he’ll complicate simple issues by trying AI suggestions then when they don’t work, doubling down on what the AI think is wrong and try to find different ways to achieve its suggestions.
Elsewhere, I’ve had to delay retrieving old computers because the non-technical user decided to start a huge complicated application project in Claude on the old computer, and it’s not easy to transfer contexts and conversations over to a new computer.
I don’t know man. I’m just tired
I think the only people I can get along with on an intimate level are creatives and teachers because at least the probability of them not relying AI entirely in their lives is higher
An exchange I had about driver support:
[Me] it says here in the documentation for both product A and product B that as of driver version D this product is no longer supported, which is corroborated by the products own documentation
[My bosses boss] chatgpt says it will work.
This back and forth went on a little bit, until I just gave up. Not only was he telling me that a fucking llm was more correct than the official documentation, but also he wasnt asking the llm the right question, literally just was asking it about product support. I dont care that the product "will probably work" its not supported anymore so using it will create a lot of tech debt for us. But no. Chatgpt is correct, chatgpt knows all.
Turns out, the product won't work for other reasons, so thank God I'm not gonna be responsible for the literally unsupported product so when thing inevitably break I have to find a way to fix it.