This is what drives me nuts. It’s pure laziness that drives this shit.

You know what would actually improve productivity? Allowing use of ad blockers so I can study work related content or instructional videos without a million ads. An email client that isn’t a piece of shit like outlook. A chat program that is not the horrendous teams. A cloud storage solution that is not one drive. Everything I’ve mentioned could/would be improved by open source implementation, but they think throwing an llm at it will improve productivity. Its just laziness. AND the fact that millions are spent on a business llm account per year is utterly stupid. I’ve not seen one scenario at our work where an llm has actually improved productivity. Sure, maybe some have used it for fixing bad grammar or writing an email they were too lazy to come up with, but to me if you are that dumb or lazy, you don’t deserve a good job.

To add. I’ve actually tried using the llm for certain things, and it maybe helped 5% of the time. Every other time it was wrong, or wasted more time than it took to actually do the work. Its scary how many blindly trust it and think they are working efficiently, while those of us in the background fix all the shit they screwed up because they were lazy.

Maybe something good will happen and the dumb will be easier to weed out because of this. That is one potential upside.

  • BenVimes@lemmy.ca
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    9 days ago

    A few months ago, my work got everyone Copilot 365 licences. I have yet to use it, and I haven’t seen anyone in my immediate vicinity using it either. So from my perspective, it’s wasted money and bandwidth. I do work at a very large organization, so maybe there are people elsewhere who do use it, but it has yet to contribute anything to my work.

    You want to know what would make my job easier? A password manager or unified login of some sort. I’m currently juggling nearly a dozen unique passwords, and it’s mentally taxing.