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77% Of Employees Report AI Has Increased Workloads And Hampered Productivity, Study Finds (www.forbes.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The new global study, in partnership with The Upwork Research Institute, interviewed 2,500 global C-suite executives, full-time employees and freelancers. Results show that the optimistic expectations about AI's impact are not aligning with the reality faced by many employees. The study identifies a disconnect between the high expectations of managers and the actual experiences of employees using AI.

Despite 96% of C-suite executives expecting AI to boost productivity, the study reveals that, 77% of employees using AI say it has added to their workload and created challenges in achieving the expected productivity gains. Not only is AI increasing the workloads of full-time employees, it’s hampering productivity and contributing to employee burnout.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

I'll say that so far I've been pretty unimpressed by Codeium.

At the very most it has given me a few minutes total of value in the last 4 months.

Ive gotten some benefit from various generic chat LLMs like ChatGPT but most of that has been somewhat improved versions of the kind of info I was getting from Stackexchange threads and the like.

There's been some mild value in some cases but so far nothing earth shattering or worth a bunch of money.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I have never heard of Codeium but it says it's free, which may explain why it sucks. Copilot is excellent. Completely life changing, no. That's not the goal. The goal is to reduce the manual writing of predictable and boring lines of code and it succeeds at that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Cool totally worth burning the planet to the ground for it. Also love that we are spending all this time and money to solve this extremely important problem of coding taking slightly too long.

Think of all the progress being made!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

That instead of macros for code generation, templates and just using higher-level languages.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Must be nice that life is so simple

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I presume it depends on the area you would be working with and what technologies you are working with. I assume it does better for some popular things that tend to be very verbose and tedious.

My experience including with a copilot trial has been like yours, a bit underwhelming. But I assume others must be getting benefit.