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They don't even understand their job
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this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2026
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I'd be 100% fine, and I'm a fucking systems analyst, a job where you'd think AI might actually be helpful.
But honestly, nope it's not. Even for basic data parsing and analysis, it takes more time for me to double check AIs work, understand what it's doing, then correct its mistakes than it would for me to just do it right the first time.
Let me put it another way; a job that takes me two hours on my own would probably take at least 3 hours if I had AI do it, when I factor in the proofing and corrections, plus there's the additional cost of the AI itself, so I have a hard time seeing how it will EVER be more cost efficient to use AI. Especially with ai prices keep going up, and its use raises overall energy prices for everyone.
It rarely saves time, and pretty much never saves money, so I'm kind of wondering what the point is, other than selling a pipe dream to dipshit boomer ceo's that don't understand basic math, but view employees as a wasted expense they want to get rid of
Because you're doing this. The majority of people bull shit their job and made mistakes with confidence long before AI existed. What kept companies functional were the people like you that actually kept stuff functioning. Finding others mistakes, actually verifying information, etc.
Do what works best for you. I know that I can't bull shit jobs like a lot of other people. If I don't understand something, or if I put little effort into something, I get fucking bored. And when I'm bored my ADHD literally will not let me work. I can't even do the minimum and BS with AI or something. I literally can't respond to an email.
I wish I could be like most people and do the bare minimum and be confident. But, I can't.
It's why I hate my field and have left it now. They forced AI on software developers. Which worked for the code monkeys. It made them really efficient and spitting out spaghetti code. But, the people that wanted to maintain code and stability. We were basically thrown out in a lot of companies. We were slowing down "development". Some of them are still there and they are burned the fuck out trying to keep things afloat.
You're not wrong. But you're not the average person. The average person doesn't care about understanding something. They just pick the "best guess" on a multiple choice test of life and are fine with it.
The AI gives them a better chance of picking the right answer. They move on. They don't think about it again and don't care if it was correct or in understanding it.
And the companies, they are profiting from a bubble. They give zero shits about the product they sell. The entire economy is running like Elon Musk promising "the next big thing" every year for 10 years without delivering. It's all just financial speculation.
Selling an idea while they develop surveillance?
Ding ding ding! The latest memory crunch has been the nonvolatile type, ssds and hard drives, which have never been a bottleneck for ai companies. Training data and model size, while big, are comparatively small compared to the volatile memory needed to run thousands of models concurrently, or compared to a hypothetical hd mass surveillance and voter influence program.
it's been said that reverse-engineering takes three times as long as writing it on your own. Yet everyone prefers reverse-engineering stupid ai answers instead of thinking for themselves. Make it make sense