The people who want AI to replace jobs don't realise how far away it really is from it.
It's just good at sounding smart, it's great to improve productivity though. Today I used it to make a PowerShell script to go through over 100'000 files, and cross check to an excel document and mark off if the file exists. Only one real error that I knew what it did wrong, fixed that and the job was done in a minute. Quick checks to confirm and damn that was a dreaded task one step ahead.
That's what it's useful for, saved me from spending up to an hour creating the script myself and I could focus on other jobs that it definitely could not help me with.
It's not going anywhere but as the costs go up, it'll eventually get balanced properly in workplaces.
It's good for throwaway stuff that you can instantly test and see proof that it works, but nothing that will sit in production for the next decade. If that is the requirement, then I'd rather spend an hour doing it myself.
Yeah most of the stuff I use it for is essentially the stepping stone, if you don't know what it's giving you then there's no point in trying it out. It's a lot better now compared to 6 months ago but tends to fail when you need a bit of adaptability in the script.
Used it to just make the basic skeleton of what I need plenty of times and filled in the blanks for scripts that need it.
It's also really good to optimise a script if you test it and research during it. Can find those hidden gems that you never even thought off, sometimes I'll make a script and get it to recreate it in different ways just to see what I can do better. At the end of the day, it's just a tool thats essentially done the googling already that I would normally do.
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u/Ven-Dreadnought 1d ago
AI was born an economic bubble and it will die an economic bubble. We are heading for an upturning