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Have you used so-called "AI" for actually productive work ? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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With copilot included in Professional-grade Office 365 and some politician claiming that their government should use AI to be more efficient. I am curious on whether some of you did use "AI" to get some productive things done. Or if it's still mostly a toy for you.

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[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

When I had a mold problem it was affecting my mind. I couldn’t think straight or focus, so I had ChatGPT make me a step by step plan for dealing with it, and it had it break each step down into nested sub-steps until no step was more than five minutes of effort, then I had it format the plan to copy-paste into workflowy.

It was really helpful. I could have made that plan myself, except that I was fucked up.

[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I use it in two ways.

ChatGPT as an interactive search. Last one was about EU GDPR compliance checklist to give a quick answer on what areas need to be looked at. I use it like once a week for work.

Productive in othen ways I use it once a month for recipes. Recipes are probably my favourite since I can say "Write it using grams and ml" and "give me some options to replace eggs and it writes out a legit recipe based on these millions of annoying blogs recipes.

Jetbrains AI auto complete for programming which is getting better slowly and I'm getting the hang of using it. It's really good for cases where I have a common thing that I don't remember the syntax of and I just type a name of a variable like "cspHeaderValue" and it will format thing that's very annoying to look up based on what I some values I wrote above.

I'm not a 10x engineer now for it, it's more like +10% overall and really depends on the task. I can see it go up to around +50% but an AI plateau might come before then.

[–] KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Search (with some double checking), rough drafting and frameworks, templates, and scripting.

[–] pancake@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

I mainly use it to get a general direction/names/sources when I want to learn about someting but don't know where to start. So far it's the only use case for which I've found it reliably useful.

[–] ThermonuclearCactus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

My physics professor has us compare our answers to physics problems with a LLM's output. Somehow, the AI is even worse at physics then I am, it once simplified (4pi2) to 4.

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[–] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

GitHub Copilot for fancy find and replace at work (rewriting a database migration from the old schema to the new schema). I pasted in the old migration, started the pattern and the AI finished for me.

[–] UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago

Copilot makes for a great autocomplete while programming. Saves me a ton of typing.

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