I'm a dev at work with 1 dev Jr dev under me.

We are in desperate need of another jr dev. But my work rather spend tokens.

So I setup agentic workflows which works 90% of the time. The 10% requires a me, a senior developer to babysit the workflow. My hourly cost are significantly higher.

After calculating the token usage and my hourly rate there are still some savings using the agentic workflows. But not much.

But we end up sacrificing is a pool of junior developers that I can train to be a senior. If I ever leave the company the entire company is screwed.

How much of that use is "forced"? If people use google they're using AI whenever they search

I'm sure that the majority of smokers do not believe that tobacco production or consumption is a benefit to society.

49%

This is going to be worse than leaded gas

If anything... 49% sounds low, considering how many of these shit-tier chat bots are becoming required. Nobody is choosing to use them, given the choice, and the companies that force it are all losing market share because of it.

100% of Americans (rounded to the nearest 1%) participate in capitalism. How many of those actually support the system?

I still have my suspicions about how that 49% is being measured, because if it counts any 'use' then technically using most search engines is using an LLM regardless of wether you want to or not, a lot of people are now also forced by their employers regardless of wether they want to or not.

I use ai chatbots like I used to use Google.

Google sucks now so AI chatbots tend to give direct answers at the moment. I know it’s a limited time before enshitification kicks in.

Have you googled anything lately? Sometimes you have to just AI because Google is retarded.

Of course chatbot use is rising when every shitty website replaced their support pages with one. What else can I do but use the stupid chatbot?

I don't pay for any, but I use AI. That doesn't mean that I don't think it is destructive to society. I would rather it fail and go away, but that doesn't seem likely.

I use chatbots to make up strange stories about my former boss, who is incompetent, and share them with my former colleague. That's pretty much the only thing I've ever used an LLM for, yet I'm counted in this statistic

sanitation — it's fascinating how 'benefit society' is the core metric here, while chatbot use is almost double. I wonder if it's less about direct societal benefit and more about practical, individual utility in daily tasks? People might not see AI solving world hunger, but they're happy to use it for writing emails or debugging code. We've been looking at this from a developer's perspective, trying to bridge that gap between perceived 'benefit' and actual useful application. More on that if helpful at https://cxgo.ai/l/dUJxR7P.