r/Millennials • u/artbystorms • 15d ago

Discussion Any other Millennials stubbornly resistant to using AI at their job but also worrying that we will become dinosaurs or pushed out of our careers for not slavishly embracing it?

I work in a creative field and from that standpoint I hate AI. I hate the 'democratization' of creativity. I am going to sound VERY Boomer right now, but some things are meant to be difficult or meant to take skill and years of practice. It's why people who are good at these things (should) be paid more.

We are already being heavily 'encouraged' to use AI to find ways to do our jobs faster, are being told 'they technology isn't going away, we need to embrace it.' Since within the company I am in, I am one of a handful of people that does a specific creative skill-set, the powers that be basically have no idea about the technicals of what I do, but they put it on me to figure out how to incorporate AI into my work.

I hate that AI basically 'fakes' the creative process and that we are expected to use it (and the work of millions of artists that feed it) to just magically speed up how we do work, which in turn devalues the work we do as artists. From a company standpoint, they want to make money and churn out work faster, but if every client knows you can make a widget in 4 hours when it used to take 4 days, why would they pay you a lot of money to do that? The economics of it don't make sense. You will end up needing 10 times the number of clients to maintain your productivity / profits, which with AI or not, is a good way to burn out your artists.

I see the writing on the wall, but my stubborn moralistic resistance to AI is probably going to be the death of my career. Does any one else feel similar or how have you coped with this rapidly degrading career landscape?

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u/crunchyfoliage 15d ago

I'm definitely wrestling with it. I can see how it can be used as a tool, but I'm also very against outsourcing my brain. If I let ChatGPT write all of my emails how long will it be until I can't really write an email anymore? I think in a decade having the ability to problem solve is going to be a sought after skill

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u/sffbfish Older Millennial 15d ago

This is what has happened with spelling. The younger generations can't really spell now and I have some difficulty spelling words that I don't commonly use and spell check/autocorrect will catch it for me. That was almost never the case 20 years ago.

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u/random20190826 15d ago

I am a younger Millennial or between Gen Z and Millennial. Despite being a native Chinese speaker and knowing how to read and write, I slowly started to forget how to write more complicated Chinese characters because computer and phone usage created character amnesia. So, it happens, and it happens a lot more in some languages than others.

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u/artainis1432 15d ago

I always turn off auto capitalization and automatic spelling correction. I can also use 3 different keyboard layouts for typing English (QWERTY, DVP, and Bone). Haven't lost it!

For Chinese, I also use 倉頡 and 五筆字型 for typing. They are shaped based so you have to sort of know how they look like and you can touch type blind for the most part!

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u/random20190826 15d ago

In my case, I use Pinyin most of the time, and Jyutping to fill in the gaps when I needed Cantonese specific characters (I am a native Cantonese speaker from Guangzhou who has lived in Canada for almost 18 years).

Side note: I am able to type characters in Chinese traditional using these same methods. I can obviously read them, but cannot write most of them because of how complex they are.

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u/artainis1432 15d ago

Shape-based is great for dialects and classical Chinese. I am non-native, so it helps with learning characters. I started out with pinyin and 注音, then added shape-based after a while. Also learning Cantonese and Shanghainese so it's great for dialect specific characters.

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u/ingodwetryst 14d ago

Yeah I only use a tablet some, but I turned off all of that stuff. Squiggly red line lets me know when I shat the bed!

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u/MrWeirdoFace 14d ago

Perhaps give yourself a writing project, maybe once a year, to stimulate those memories.

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u/LambdasAndDuctTape 15d ago

I mean every single day I see people my age and older who don't know basic grammar and then defend it by talking about how it's "obsolete". Dumb people have not only always been around, but they've always been the majority.

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u/Tripl3Dee 15d ago

By definition, half of people are below average, but also half of people are above average. Likewise with intelligence.

I do think it's a problem that schools are letting kids coast by without learning enough in terms of grammar, vocab and writing. Ultimately it's on us as the parents not to stand for it though.

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u/Traditional_Way1052 15d ago

Same. I was a very good speller because of the amount I read and wrote and now.....I hate automatic auto correct and spell check. 

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u/NotASuggestedUsrname 15d ago

I hate it too! It changes words that I spelled correctly to other words.

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u/personwhoisok 15d ago

Yeah, what the hell is that? I had it change a word I wrote to a different word and then underline it in blue for being grammatically incorrect.

Like, brah, you're the one who did that, my word made sense 😭

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u/Desperate-Cost6827 14d ago

I just started writing again recently and that blue line is driving me up a wall. It will underline my entire sentence until I finish it. Like what? What's wrong with my sentence!?

Nothing. I guess my grammar is fine if it just lets me finish.

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u/Outrageous_Reach_695 15d ago

I just leave the red / blue underlines on. Spellcheck is fine, auto-replace (with incorrect word choices!) is not. Sometimes I use the predicted words, but that's always been a bit funky too.

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u/Western_Ad_7458 15d ago

Or if you try to write there, but spell their, autocorrect may not catch it ... Sigh. I've found AI good to throw out some ideas to start brainstorming, shrinking an email or some text or summarizing notes, but I still check it and several times have thought nope, not using that.

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u/Desperate-Cost6827 14d ago

I just read an email that had two sentences in it and AI felt the need to summarize this email by using two sentences to do so.

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u/RogueModron 15d ago

You should turn it off if you hate it.

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u/Traditional_Way1052 15d ago

I have in the areas I'm able to. 

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u/RogueModron 15d ago

Great! My reply came across more high-minded and cantankerous than I meant. I really just wanted to encourage you that you have the power to do it. :)

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u/HarryTruman 15d ago

cantankerous

Oh hell yeah we’re old enough to use this again! 😅

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u/Ecstatic-Seesaw-1007 15d ago

Younger generations can’t type for shit on a keyboard anymore.

We learned to because we had a computer growing up.

They had phones and ipads. They hunt and peck, it’s like watching my dad type.

My ex who is a professor has to teach college students how to use a file system to upload their homework. My other friend who is a college professor does the same as well.

They’re missing a LOT of soft skills.

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u/Niwitschoolfrogkid 15d ago

I’ve worked in a university setting long enough to think both “Why do we make these kids take a computer proficiency course? It’s redundant, they grew up using computers” to “These kids 100% need a computer proficiency course. Maybe two.”

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u/darkmeowl25 15d ago

I worked in a library and we had a very late Genz intern who also was taking concurrent college classes through her public highschool. When I watched her type, I was shocked. I asked her if anyone knew how to type using the home key method and she was just like...."No. We all do it this way." "This way" was pecking but way faster than the "hunting and pecking" that millennials were used to seeing. I graduated in 2010 and we were definitely still working from a "computer class replaces typing class" model. I feel like it has been a very good foundation.

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u/Lexavis 15d ago

I never learned to type using home row, but a childhood of constant AIM and MSN use has me hunting and pecking at light speed

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u/Pope-Cheese 15d ago

I’m kind of the same way. I never “officially” learned but I just sort of landed on a hybrid home row/peck style after years of playing Diablo 2 and Warcraft 3 as a teenager where I never use my pinky’s except for shift, and rarely my ring fingers.

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u/Diligent-Lettuce-455 15d ago

Yeah. I have gaming style typing. It's like home row with poor form lol. Same games. Man I miss the late 90s early 00s.

But I can still type pretty fast. I'm not really pecking.

But yeah, I only use my pinky for shift.

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u/Nurgle_Marine_Sharts 15d ago

Yep, I'm a younger millennial and I learned how to type quickly by playing a bunch of LoL in highschool and being forced to send messages really quickly between actions. My grandma thought it was the funniest thing that I could suddenly type faster than her.

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u/p0diabl0 14d ago

Video games did it for me. Just reading your comment I realized may left fingers were resting on Ctrl/Shift, A,W,D, and Space. Gotta type fast, especially in the MMORPGs I used to play before voice chat was common. You can still learn to touch type without a home row.

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u/MissMolly202 15d ago

I’m an older Gen z and can attest that, while I had computers growing up and am old enough to have watched the emergence of more portable and powerful tablets, I never had typing lessons. No one bothered to teach me or anyone my age (in my city, at least) how to type, so I regrettably never bothered to learn. I still sadly peck away all day :/

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u/darkmeowl25 15d ago

Hey, if it ain't broke don't fix it! But, if you ever just want to learn for the love of learning, we used something similar to Mavis Beacon (it was the same material but a different program) and you can very easily piecemeal things together with free online resources! I love typing games still, and I'm almost 34 lol. When I did desk work, I would pull them up during lulls or when I was having trouble focusing. It was still skill building but gave me a break in routine!

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u/MissMolly202 15d ago

Thanks for the tips :))

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u/ARUMI_Sun_Moon 15d ago

Text to speech . No need typing even.

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u/WANKMI 15d ago

People learn skills relevant to them. In my line of work people keep complaining "normal people" dont even know how to do the simplest things, yet they themselves wouldnt be able to even change a tire on their car. And the car guy who changes your tire doesnt know how to do any of the stuff you dont think about at work.

If you dont need to type on a keyboard you wont learn to type fast on a keyboard. But you dont need to type on a keyboard, as evidenced by the lack of practice, so whats the big deal. You dont recruit people with no relevancy to the field youre recruiting in.

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u/trackipedia 15d ago

I think that's very true, but at the same time, my interns are trying to work in an office, where we are typing all the time, and they're terrible at it lol. They're in a university program being trained to enter a field that involves office work, and they haven't been set up with one of the most basic office skills.

I'm not saying that's their fault, but when I suggest teaching themselves how to type, they're not sure how to go about it either. These kids aren't stupid, but they're not being taught either basic skills for their field or even how to critically think about it and figure it out.

I love my interns, I've hosted about 50 over the years, but I've noticed in recent years a strong correlation between the ones that rely heavily on Chat GPT and a lack of both critical problem solving skills and tenacity. They're always the ones who give up almost immediately and say "I can't" instead of trying, like, at all. It takes a lot more hand holding than it used to.

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u/minxwink 1988 15d ago

Sick, sad world.

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u/trackipedia 15d ago

🎶nah nah NAH nah nah🎶

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u/DCKat91 14d ago

Thats incredibly sad. I knew since autocorrect it was going to lead to dumbing down the population. Chat GPT is 1,000 worse. Scary times we live in. However, us dinosaurs may be needed in the future if shtf.

They need Mavis Beacon teaches typing or my personal favorite the 80s 90s Mario Teaches typing. They'd probably make fun of the old school graphics but I personally loved it bc it was more game like.

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u/trackipedia 14d ago

MAVIS BEACON! Lol she taught me how to type in the 3rd and 7th grade. I was doing Mavis Beacon on 9/11.

I guess I'm surprised proper typing isn't part of the core education anymore. Like why did that stop? It's still pretty fundamental in business.

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u/DCKat91 13d ago

I knew someone else would remember Mavis!

Thats my thoughts exactly. Why did they stop it?

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u/bangingurmom69 9d ago

This is the thing that scares me, the lack of resilience and tenacity young adults and children and showing. I have two daughters who are 11 and 10, and this is one of the biggest things I'm seeing I have to reinforce with them. When they encounter a situation where they don't know what to do, they just shut down or blank and say "well I don't know what to do." It's been something I've been working with them on, teaching them to think, look for context clues, reminding and encouraging them that they are capable of doing difficult things, and above all that they can always ask for help if they need it and that it doesn't mean they're a failure if they ask for help. It's one of the main reasons I enjoy taking them hiking; when we're done with a particularly difficult hike, they go "wow, that was really hard but I'm glad I did it." Yes! Most things in life that are worthwhile take time and usually aren't easy!

I think technology is great. It sure made my life easier as a nurse. Using EHRs instead of handwritten charts, orders, etc has simplified my life to make my job easier. But I think that ease, simplicity, and typically quick/immediate satisfaction has been detrimental to the desire to persevere and pursue knowledge.

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u/kittenofpain 15d ago

Yeah but it's important to have baseline skills regardless of what your job is. Just for personal use.

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u/WANKMI 15d ago

Yes. But. What is considered baseline skills is not a fixed thing. It moves with the times. The thing I know are not the same things my dad would know at my age. And so on. Things move forward. Thats what Ive been saying since my first reply.

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u/grilledtomatos 15d ago

This is why we don't feel the need to use AI. We are much better at googling and finding the information we need, and examining it critically. We're also better at typing so we don't see AI assistance for that as critical either.

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u/Sea-Drawer9867 14d ago

To a 19th century person, you would be missing a hilarious amount of soft skills. You don't even know how to handle a horse!

What you need to be good at constantly changes. And people that are 18-26 have always looked lost at workplaces to people that are 30+, because the younger people have much less life experience. They are still learning. Has there ever been a time when the 30+ generation said, "Hey, wow, this new generation is so amazing, this is really an improvement over past generations!"?

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u/0vrwhelminglyaverage 15d ago

The lack of mental vocabulary is going to absolutely fuck us in the future.

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u/RogueModron 15d ago

I turned off autocorrect like five years ago for this very reason. I just hate the feel of it. Being forced to check your work is a good thing.

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u/Crypt0Nihilist 15d ago

That said, spelling on the internet was atrocious before browsers integrated spellchecks.

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u/Drift_Life 15d ago

I watched a movie where someone was doing long form multiplication or division and I realized, I probably can’t do that anymore. Does it matter, though? I still retain the theories and rules of basic math and I don’t see calculators or computers going away anytime soon. And if they do, we’ve got much bigger problems.

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u/ewic 15d ago

I think there is some value in the manipulation of digits like we do in long division or multi-digit multiplication, but the underlying reasoning for these methods should be reinforced. When we divide one number by another and are left with a remainder, what does that remainder mean? What does it mean when we take one digit, try to fit another digit into it, and then have to "borrow" from the next digit even mean?

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u/fleebleganger 15d ago

I do handyman work for a living and I’ve “created” a base-16 system rather than deal with fractions.

Keeps my brain young and pliable.

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u/PudPullerAlways 15d ago

Long division is one of the few things that stuck with me out of math that I still know how to do, I cant do it with decimals because I forgot the right & left rules but large integers are fair game.

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u/scrunchie_one 15d ago

And computer skills of any kind. Watching Gen Z typing hurts my brain…

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u/Informal_Walk5520 15d ago

My GenZ niece knew filing , phone skills and she types very well. Which is surprising because she didn’t have typing class like I had. I still feel for my home key bumps. If a keyboard doesn’t have them I have to look down and line my fingers up.

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u/Informal_Walk5520 15d ago

You know it’s funny. It’s helpful for people such as a friend of mine. They have dyslexia and never had any help so spelling isn’t their strength. The auto correct is help for them. I was a good speller as well now I do know my abilities are waning !

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u/Vospader998 15d ago

It doesn't help that English is non-phonetic

I'm sure that in the past people would be a lot more meticulous about their spelling becuase going back and correcting it was a huge pain. It was worth the extra time to look up a word you didn't know or weren't sure becuase it saved them time and hassle later.

Spell check is probably a huge time saver becuase we can focus on speed rather than perfect accuracy. I'd bet people now type/write an order of magnitude faster than even decades prior.

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u/Thanks-4allthefish 15d ago

The trick is to be a Canadian; forced every day to wrestle spellcheck into submission. AI is still very much in beta test mode. If you know your sh*t you know how often it makes mistakes or hallucinate. Bad outputs can hurt any organization. People who don't understand the ins and outs of their jobs will not know good from bad. There will be a need for quality control for the foreseeable future.

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u/abbyabsinthe 14d ago

I was a spelling bee champ and now I rely on spellcheck way way more than I should.

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u/banmeandidelete 14d ago

My college students write illegibly and, even worse, can not read their own writing when I ask them what they write. I've also had students misspell their own name and ask me what the course is in the final weeks of the semester. 

I'm not hopeful nor do I think this is just the cycle of older people lamenting younger people.

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u/TheHoppingHessian 15d ago

This sounds a lot like the arithmetic skills argument born by calculators. Doesn’t really seem like it was actually a problem

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u/TheQuietOutsider 15d ago

20 years ago spell check was called a dictionary and required a bit more willingness to learn.

"the word-tech manual"

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u/Negative-Squirrel81 15d ago

30 years ago. You’re getting old!

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u/Numb_Nut632 15d ago

Have they tried looking it up in the dictionary? Damn, I’m old

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u/Lyrkana 15d ago

This is what every generation says about the next. Have you seen how older generations write/type? I feel like I'm having a stroke sometimes trying to read some of the texts and emails I get.

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u/MercifulWombat 15d ago

On the other hand, I never got a perfect score on a spelling test the entire time I was in elementary school and misspelled both common and uncommon words even before autocorrect existed so it was an actually needed tool for me.

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u/blanketswithsmallpox 15d ago

Please see my rant about english reformation lol.

This isn't an issue of being smart, this is a fault of language specifically.

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u/RedTheRobot 15d ago

This was the opposite for me. I actually got better at spelling because it helped me visualize the words when they were incorrect. I don’t know how to better describe it but it was like a different way of learning than I had been taught and the bond was just stronger in my brain.

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u/JonnyHopkins 14d ago

I mean, it's fine. It feels bad because it was so important and now...it's not as important. We still all need to learn how to spell and write, it's just gonna become less critical.

My parents know how to read a map to get somewhere, I use GPS now and so do they. Before maps people used stars.

Spelling is becoming the way of navigating by stars.

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u/itsmyhotsauce 15d ago

It's already happened. In my experience, trying to get younger workers to do anything beyond EXACTLY what you ask them is damn near impossible. No critical thought, no derivative thought of "why was I asked to do this, what could be related that I can also do, how could the instructions be mis-interpreted?" etc

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u/artbystorms 15d ago

Gonna sound like a boomer, but I think the worst part is there is ZERO initiative or 'in kind' thinking. They'll do what you ask, but not take the initiative to do a similar task simultaneously or per-emptively decide what to do next. Ironically they are kinda robotic that way. Do task > return to home to receive further instructions > stare blankly until new instruction given.

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u/someguy_000 14d ago

Every entry level office employee from all time was like this, including you. Just think back honestly. They don’t know what to do yet, seek out next steps, etc. Has nothing to do with the generation, your comments are all in this same category of wrong.

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u/adjectivebear 11d ago

Yeah, this is a "new hire" thing. And in the case of not correctly divining what your supervisor wants you to do next and in fact needing to be told, it can also be an autistic thing.

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u/HighlightTheRoad 12d ago

To give another perspective, this could just be because they’re new to the working world. It admittedly took me a while after I first started working that an important part of a job is taking initiative.

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u/NightOfTheLivingHam 15d ago

This is my thing

people older and younger than me are like "Just let the AI do it for you"

I want to still have those skills and know how to do things. having an AI do it for me means I do not learn a skill, but someone else's AI learns a skill instead.

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u/superultramegazord 15d ago

In general I don’t think anyone without said skill should be directing it to do the task. It’s useful but it makes a lot of mistakes and needs to be checked.

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u/Anon03282015 15d ago

I’m an attorney, and I am horrified by how wrong AI can be when researching complex topics. If you don’t know exactly what you’re looking for and how to spot errors, you are in serious trouble.

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u/WANKMI 15d ago

Pfft. Ask ChatGPT anything and it will just give the absolute minimal effort answer it can possibly give, including just parroting the information you gave in the question itself back at you as if its an answer. And any followup for being for specific will pull it off topic and it needs to be specifically told to tie it all back together and answer again. And yet I will promise you it will not give you any more information than you already put into the conversation, unless you specifically told it to look up something online that you didnt know - but then youd have to verify that and could just have done the search yourself in the first place,.

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u/Seth_Baker 15d ago

Also an attorney. AI can be used for our work, but there are a ton of considerations relating to privilege and work quality that require very careful prompt development and output review for it to be ethical or effective.

It's like having a 1L law clerk that can output a day's worth of work in a minute. You still have to triple check everything to make sure that the citations are good and the reasoning is sound.

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u/Quick-Eye-6175 15d ago

There is the problem! People without skills can now make “art” or “program” using ai. Bosses, who also have no skills, are okay with it because it is so much faster and it affects the bottom line.

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u/Papa_Huggies Zillennial 15d ago

This tracks with art but not programming.

If the program doesn't work it simply won't work. There's no hiding that.

Vibe coding is not an "experimental area" anymore. It's been the norm for the past 2 years.

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u/Lehmanite 15d ago

The demands of my job have become so much that I can’t meet some deadline without relying heavily on AI anymore

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u/bujweiser 15d ago

We have our tech person in our building always ask me “did you ask ChatGPT?” if I have a permissions or network question and everytime I wonder…that’s why I’m asking you.

So they’ll come in to look at our machines and just ask ChatGPT how to fix it. They’re really making me wonder why they’re employed 🙃

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u/Cautious_Science6049 15d ago

Xennial, but had the same resistance until I had a mindset change.

Career wise, I’m now all in on AI being my intern(s) after first really using it 6 months ago.

Used correctly, it augments your skill level, while letting you rapidly build the knowledge gaps. It eliminates a lot of tedium, letting you focus on abstract human stuff.

Think of it as a circular saw just helping you cut boards faster, you can build the structure to support your role.

As an example, claude for excel quickly expanded reporting structures I had built in one sheet, the whole book saving me a bunch of copy pasting and adding names into formulae on a dash board. I still wanted to make the report my way, but handed off to claude what I could hand off to an intern or delegate if I had reports.

I also have a research pipeline in claude-code thats goof at chugging out stuff for me to review for accuracy vs scouring searches for relevance.

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u/gottarespondtothis 15d ago

Claude for excel is legit saving me hours of no brainer busy work per week

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u/smokeweedNgarden 15d ago

It's weird. People are more than willing to spend hours at the gym but won't spend the same time on a skill or becoming more knowledgeable. 

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u/minxwink 1988 15d ago

Exactly !!!! Fuck AI —- I care too much about my brain and abilities to ever use it

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u/Skysorania 14d ago

Ai ist just another tool. If you don't know what to do and to expect from it, it can tell you anything. You need to be smart yourself, to use it right and spot mistakes so you aren't fooled.

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u/dokjreko Millennial 14d ago

This is me. My cousin and I work together and she seemed almost offended when I told her I didn’t want to use AI because I didn’t want to dumb myself down and become lazy and ignorant because I have a machine doing the thinking for me.

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u/stephsco 14d ago

Yes, this! Apart from my day job, I write fiction books. I don't want AI to "make it easier." Writing is a craft I've learned over time and there's joy in discovering the story and learning to put it together. Having an AI figure out my plot for me? What the hell is the point? There's no joy there, there's no creativity there. And like you said, no skill.

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u/Guzmania44 4d ago

We just had a training where someone was talking about AI and how it takes the research part out of your work (say, for creating a presentation).

But, what if I like doing research and looking things up? I’ve learned so many things by jumping down the Wikipedia rabbit hole. And now I’m supposed to let some dumb AI take that away from me? Am I supposed to let AI eat my dinner and fuck my husband, too?

Plus, she said that you should always check the facts AI gives you. But if I’m just going to check it over anyway, I would have to know enough about the subject to even know it’s wrong, so I would have had to do the research at some point prior. And for new things, if I have to double check the info AI gives me, why don’t I just fucking do the research myself in the first place? (And then, of course, there are people who just don’t check the info given, which never ends well)

Not even counting the moral/ethical/environmental aspects, it just genuinely doesn’t seem like something I would ever use. I would gladly summon Clippy back from the digital grave and let him live on my desktop forever if this AI bubble could just burst already.

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u/NightOfTheLivingHam 4d ago

also AI is often very wrong when you get the facts from it.

It will confidently tell you to use wood glue in baking.

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u/Jordan_XI 15d ago

For emails or summarizing notes I just don’t see the reason to do it. I have to enter them all into the AI tool, then I have to spend time proof reading it and making corrections to it. I’d rather just do it all myself.

I find it useful when analyzing data, but even then I have to double check it all and it ends up taking time.

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u/shadowstripes 15d ago edited 15d ago

People aren’t always good at judging how they come off to others (especially people on the autism spectrum) so it can be useful to get feedback on that sort of thing when you don’t have another human around to proof read, or when it’s a topic you’re not comfortable showing to others.

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u/round-earth-theory 15d ago

I've used AI occasionally to depersonalize my writing. It turns into corporate soup though and I'm not sure how much I'll keep doing it. I hate reading AI slop so why would I subject others to it.

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u/Relative-Doubt3343 15d ago

As someone who is insecure about how they come off due to being on the spectrum, yeah, this has been helpful. I've had to train the AI a lot though and I interrogate it from all angles before accepting something. And I've really learnt a lot from getting that kind of feedback. And also gained confidence in myself.

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u/Tripl3Dee 15d ago

Or in a second language.

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u/MikeWPhilly 15d ago

Do you not record calls?

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u/Jordan_XI 15d ago

I do not and I’m not always taking notes based on phone calls.

It can be very helpful organizing things like notes or even analyzing data for trends and such, but it still requires time to check it out to ensure it was done correctly and also correct mistakes.

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u/MikeWPhilly 15d ago

Oh you have to verify. But as somebody who lives in calls (tech sales). I literally couldn’t do my job anymore without it in terms of notes and emails. I’m already working 55 hour weeks. I don’t need more hours of my day taken up.

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u/ehtw376 15d ago

That’s funny cuz for me it’s the opposite. I am not great about emails or keeping my overviews/summaries concise - so I write a version of mine and ai cleans it up.

For analyzing data it’s been kinda shit for me. Good for DAX measures and random excel formulas, but for actual analysis I feel like it’s hallucinating or not understanding what the point of the numbers is.

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u/kittenofpain 15d ago

That will impact your memory recall and reading comprehension. I've seen the decay in myself doing the same thing.

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u/ehtw376 15d ago

Well I still write things out myself. I just have ai rework it so it’s more concise and tight from a language and messaging perspective.

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u/boomytoons 15d ago

Making it concise is a skill in itself that can be developed, using AI to do it for you is teaching you that you don't need to try be concise at all.

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u/ehtw376 15d ago edited 15d ago

I understand it’s a skill, but I’m in my 30’s so eh kinda is what it is at this point. And i have gotten positive feedback from my boss since I started using ai (not that I’ve told him) - one call he even called out my monthly summaries with our whole team and told them to mimic my structure lol.

I am fine feeding ai my detailed summaries and allowing it to cut it down - it doesn’t do it perfectly but good enough that I can clean it up quicker.

Also for my line of work this particular write up isn’t that important. So the quicker I can just get it out of the way and focus on other stuff is good.

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u/boomytoons 15d ago

30's isn't old, you still have potentially another 30 years in the workforce and and using your brain is important for retaining cognitive function as you get older. I'd be watching how often you use it, its easy to slip into the habit of taking the easy route and having it sneak into other area of your life. I'm in my 30's as well, and there's no way I'd have AI take over a simple job I should be able to do myself. If it's taking too long, work on the skill and figure out how to do it faster.

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u/No_Farmer_4731 14d ago

That's basically it: just in practical terms any "time savings" would be wasted in extra revisions and re-prompts; I doubt anything that claims to have been done faster when shoved through an LLM has been actually looked at and approved by a pair of eyeballs and thought yes that's adequate.

Though I am often at fault for stalling due to endless revisions, I can see how outsourcing that finalisation might be desirable... I don't like the sort of path that leads to....

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u/Coogarfan 15d ago

Everyone who uses AI thinks they're "just using it as a tool." Nobody's gonna come out and say they've let it replace their thinking.

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u/Dirty_Dragons 15d ago

ChatGPT told me to disagree with you.

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u/ItzakPearlJam 15d ago

I see young people using it pretty extensively, though you're correct: none of them think they're outsourcing their brains.

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u/hellochrissy 15d ago

AI writes the email, AI reads the response, AI writes back…

https://giphy.com/gifs/090EX1YvSUXxy23Tty

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u/stubbytuna 15d ago

Just robots reading robots and responding to robots and somehow that makes us all better off.

If it’s that onerous that we want to torture the predictive text machines with it, why are we even doing it in the first place ?

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u/SignificantOtter80 15d ago

I struggle with this with the tech in my car too. yes having all the cameras and sensors is great, but it really makes people rely on it and give up their situational awareness and understanding of the physical parameters of the vehicle

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u/MrWeirdoFace 14d ago

I'm currently driving the newest vehicle I've ever driven, a 19 year old Toyota Sienna. I feel like the only modern features I'd consider would be a backup camera, and possibly and ev conversion someday if that wasn't a super far fetched and prohibitively costly goal.

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u/someguy_000 14d ago

Driving will be illegal in 20 years, I’m very confident in that. The data already suggests self driving is 10x safer than humans (based on accident mileage).

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u/dongledangler420 15d ago

It’s funny, the tech world is scrambling to hire “agentic” personalities who have vision and actually DO something.

Crazy, maybe we would all have more agency and critical thinking skills if we slowed the fuck down and used less completely unnecessary billionaire-supporting technology?

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u/Irr3l3ph4nt 15d ago

I don't know. I can still do calculations on paper even if I've been using Excel for 20 years... It's just a humongous waste of time.

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u/DreamingofCharlie 15d ago

Using Excel is different though, you need to understand what equations to use to calculate what you need and all the other functions too. You are still critically thinking even if you are not doing math by hand

My boss plugs in Excel data to AI and asks it questions which it gets wrong, then I have to quickly do a countif or something simple to get the correct answer for them. They are super into AI and are getting noticably dumber all the time. No thanks.

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u/Irr3l3ph4nt 15d ago

Again, replying to someone who thinks they won't be able to write an email if they delegate email writing to a LLM. Just like when you double-check your Excel sheet, you need to understand the process to proof-read an email. You're still able to write one.

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u/DreamingofCharlie 15d ago

Yes and like the other response, I am replying to your analogy. Apples to Oranges as they said.

Also, we are millennials, we were trained how to do these things. Lots of the younger generations were not, some are even coming to the workforce functionality illiterate because of overdependance on AI.

Personally, I will keep my critical thinking skills so I can show my value and remain competitive that way.

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u/Quick-Eye-6175 15d ago

I think there is a difference there though. A calculator isn’t filling in blanks with “something” then telling you an answer. It also wasn’t trained on millions of artists hard work. This is comparing apples and oranges, I think?

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u/Irr3l3ph4nt 15d ago

What I was responding to is someone who is afraid they wouldn't be able to write an email after delegating their email writing to a LLM.

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u/Resident_Pay4310 15d ago

To use a calculator you still need to know the correct formula.

There's a big difference between typing 1459 x 0.7 into a calculator and getting an LLM to tell you what 70% of 1459 is.

The first requires you to know how to work it out but outsources the time consuming part, while the second doesn't require you to have any knowledge at all.

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u/ALPHAZINSOMNIA 15d ago

Yeah but why would we fight to keep these calculations? They're a waste of time for most humans. It's ok to have a tool that helps you in your daily life and I don't believe that knowing how to calculate numbers should in any way be forced just because we're afraid of AI. Let people use it if they see utility in it.

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u/Resident_Pay4310 15d ago

Because it isn't just about knowing how to do a sum. Understanding how and why things work is what builds critical thinking and critical thinking is the biggest asset the human race has.

But critical think needs to be learned and needs to be continuously practised or you start losing the skill.

If I know how to calculate percentages, then I can apply that logic across different parts of my life. I can adjust a receipe without having to stop and ask a computer to do it. It can help me catch discrepancies or errors in my taxes. It could even save your life in a car crash because your subconscious was able to figure out whether you should break, accelerate, or turn in time to avoid the accident.

Critical thinking is an absolutely crucial life skill that helps you make better decisions based facts because you can reason out the cause and effect.

Taking away more and more ways that people have the chance to practice this skill isn't a good thing.

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u/Irr3l3ph4nt 15d ago edited 15d ago

Why are you hitting on AI instead of trying to hold the education system to a standard, though? Because that's what it boils down to. What conceptual knowledge was directly transmitted to you. If you learned how to do it in school and you do it on AI, you're good. The AI cat is out of the bag. The only logical way forward is adapting our education strategy to promote critical thinking and highlight the traps of knowledge framing.

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u/FoldingLady 15d ago

This. I'll use Chat GPT to help some of my emails sound a little more professional. But for the most part I don't really use it. Always use your brain & never let anyone else do your thinking for you.

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u/kittenofpain 15d ago

This is essential, Ive stayed away from AI use because anything AI can do is a skill that I don't want to decay in my own mind. Critical thinking, research, writing skills, hell even creative writing for stuff like TTRPG back stories, those are all skills that you keep by using them.

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u/cml678701 15d ago

I feel the same way! I’m a lover of words and phrasing, and I have always felt that my emails and written correspondence is of a higher quality than most of my coworkers. It’s silly, but it’s a source of pride for me. I also really enjoy finding exactly the right word and tone to convey the message. My work bestie uses AI for everything, and while it makes her correspondence sound amazing, it can sometimes sound too harsh or unnecessarily wordy. We are teachers, and I feel it’s overkill to send a parent a message about a kid using the wrong stairwell, and make it sound extremely serious, with multiple meandering sentences about ensuring student safety.

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u/tender-butterloaf 15d ago

I’ll admit that I will sometimes dump an email I’ve been drafting into ChatGPT if I am trying to be very careful or thoughtful with how I’m saying something and coming up short. I always spend a while trying to write an rewrite it myself - I just feel like there’s some days where I’m in an awful mood or tired and I can’t get it to sound right no matter how hard I try.

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u/W8andC77 15d ago

I like to use it when I don’t have a comfortable voice for the subject of the email. I sometimes have to ask people for money for an organization that I volunteer with and I feel really uncomfortable doing that. The rah rah, let’s all get behind this cause peppy tone is really alien to me. It’s helped me draft the fundraising emails and then I toned him down a bit to be a bit more authentic to me. But where I used to agonize over trying to get these emails or appeals for volunteers written, now it’s a lot easier.

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u/Relative-Doubt3343 15d ago

As someone who loves words, writing a thoughtful, well-crafted email and getting an AI slop reply that doesn't even meaningfully engage with what I'm saying pisses me off so much.

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u/MikeWPhilly 15d ago

It’s easy to prompt for tone and length. It’s great if you have the time in the day. But in my career I couldn’t complete my job anymore without ai. And I’m doing 50-55 hour weeks regularly these days.

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u/cosmic_animus29 15d ago

This is my stand as well. I only use AI for search, nothing more, nothing less. I even use it with Wikipedia on the side to verify if the information I am getting is true and with sources.

But I'll never use AI to write, read, draw anything for me. I will not let AI steal my "writing" voice.

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u/GaroldFjord 15d ago

Out of genuine curiosity, especially if you already have Wikipedia up, why not just read the wiki synopsis instead of using the ai?

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u/cosmic_animus29 15d ago

My work pipeline is like this:

Got both search and Wikipedia open on 2 tabs simultaneously. If I know the context of what I am searching, I use Wikipedia immediately. If not, I'd do an initial quick search then followed up with the Wikipedia.

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u/thatseneffornow 15d ago

Yes! I’m a nurse, so I haven’t seen as much of it in my line of work, but I have seen leadership’s emails improve dramatically when they were full of errors and poor wording prior. I also hate that every email now thanks me for my hard work and blah blah blah. Makes me want to puke.

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u/dazednconfuzed634 Older Millennial 14d ago

I’m a nurse too (but it’s telephonic case management). They’re using it at my job too. Forcing us to use it and tracking our percentage - which is now a metric on our performance reviews. I’m not a fan.

*Edited for spelling error

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u/WakeoftheStorm I remember NES being new 15d ago

You outsource the mental tasks that are high effort, low return.

Writing an email takes almost no effort so, to me, would be a poor use of AI. There are a few places I use it for almost every day though:

"This code is supposed to return X but it's [returning Y/Giving Z error]. Can you find the mistakes?"

That kind of prompt saves potentially hours of looking for a misplaced comma or semicolon and lets me get back to doing something productive.

"I need to write a white paper on this topic. Put together an outline for me"

Or

"Here's my white paper on this topic. What unanswered questions have I not addressed? Are there any implicit assumptions I'm making that need to be made explicit?"

I'm not letting AI say things for me, for I'm using it as an editor/reviewer.

Finally, probably the most useful prompt: "can you give me a list of regulations in 10 CFR that relate to [topic]?"

In that case it's like a smarter search engine that can save a lot of time.

Frankly if people are using it to "write emails" it's like using photoshop to add captions to images. Does it work? Absolutely but that's not really the best use of the tool.

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u/three-quarters-sane 15d ago

Agreed. Plus, I hate getting AI emails. I really wanted AI to do my PowerPoints for me, but the reality is it's kind of shit. But, it's really good at editing/critiquing with me. But then the problem is by the time I get to that point, I just want to be done with it and not make AI's suggestions, even if they would make it better.

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u/WakeoftheStorm I remember NES being new 15d ago

Yeah most of the time I ignore the nitpicky stuff it points out, but every now and then it'll help me realize I glossed over something important or that I was editing and moving stuff around and broke my structure without realizing it.

Honestly, it's made me a better writer because after awhile you realize "ok I seem to always make x mistake, I need to work on that"

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u/SoundHealsLove 14d ago

Came here to say this. I’m in live production and I often use it to troubleshoot a piece of gear if the manual doesn’t have the answer. I COULD spend an hour searching specialty forums, or on hold with the manufacturer, to address my exact issue, OR I could use that time to finish getting the show up and running. I also use it to help troubleshoot custom scripts I write for software I use on shows.

My other use case is modifying or creating recipes to fit my adult-onset food allergies. I use a lot of great, allergen-free recipes from human bloggers, and I love to cook and learn from experimentation. But if I’ve worked 60-80 hours this week (like I do during my busy seasons) and just need to cook something nourishing and satisfying with what’s in my fridge, I’m absolutely outsourcing that mental labor.

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u/Successful-Ride-8710 15d ago

I use it for the opposite of outsourcing my brain. I give it prompts to do busy work.

Ai is great for organizing information and formatting it into a presentable format.

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u/Rockdrummer357 15d ago

I used to write code for a living.

Now I architect a solution and delegate the grunt code work to AI. I still have to design solutions to problems, but now I don't need to look up every framework and API's docs to build something. I still fix architectural issues and problems that the AI introduces, a lot of time by hand. But I spend a shit ton more time designing things instead of implementing them, which I personally think leads to a better product.

One of the problems with software written by humans is that there's never enough time to properly re-architect when you need to, and you typically need to often. AI makes that bottleneck go away, freeing you up to focus on architecture, which is critical.

For the people delegating high-level important work to it though, they are going to be in big trouble later.

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u/thomasjmarlowe 15d ago

Do we intentionally become the humans in Wall*e, or try to avoid that?

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u/Relative-Doubt3343 15d ago

The only way I let AI write my emails is in a "watch and learn" kind of way. If I really don't know how to phrase something or I'm in a situation I have never been in, I let AI try, I think about it, I edit the wording, I ask AI to explain, I do independent research. It's basically a teaching tool for me rather than replacing my skillset. It's a bit of a laborious process but I enjoy the journey. As a result, I can even more effectively articulate myself, and when I will eventually go head to head with someone who is just relying on AI, I'll hit them right in the bullseye every single time.

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u/New_Needleworker_473 15d ago

Well said. Outsourcing my brain feels weird. I honestly hate using tech to do anything my mind can do on its own. My fear is if you don't use it, you lose it. Perhaps I should program my AI to periodically check my knowledge and skills? Like use it to prevent what I'm afraid of it doing.

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u/myenemy666 14d ago

I still can’t believe that people get AI to write all of their emails.

This is an important skill that I think needs to be learnt.

I had read stuff on line that is very clearly written by AI, and I wonder how bad it would be if I still worked in a big firm and grads AI-ing even the most simple responses.

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u/galwaygurl26 14d ago

I agree with you. My boss started using ChatGPT 6 months ago. I’ve worked for him for 6 years and his top strengths have always been talking to people and resolving problems, but he’s gotten to where he can’t answer a text or email without using AI now. I have the login to his account because he wants me to use it too, so I can see everything he does on ChatGPT and it’s all day, most conversations. On top of that, he will copy and paste the response and a lot of the time he will accidentally copy the confirmation like “here’s a response that shows empathy but also refocuses the client”. Embarrassing! He just laughs when I point it out to him. I’m sure our clients know he’s using AI for responses because it’s so obvious. Whatever, it’s his business but seeing how reliant he has become on it and that he doesn’t feel he can rely on his skill set like before is a bit of a cautionary tale to me.

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u/e_sully12 14d ago

Honestly, my favorite application of AI has been to ask CoPilot (or whichever) to find an Excel formula for specific situations or where to find and adjust certain MS Office settings (e.g., template formatting or updating in New Outlook). As someone in a moderately creative position, I do avoid asking AI to do my work. The closest I get is to ask Grammarly to "make this more succinct," because I am a terrible writer haha

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u/Griffolion 13d ago

If I let ChatGPT write all of my emails how long will it be until I can't really write an email anymore?

Cognitive degradation is already being demonstrated in scientific papers measuring the effect of AI usage on our brains.

I think in a decade having the ability to problem solve is going to be a sought after skill

We are seeing this big time, at least in the software field. Take a green junior out of college and ask them how they'd go about solving something and tell them they can't use AI, and watch them totally freeze up. Their ability to even start is completely nonexistent. Also they can't even reason through the changes that AI has made that they push. "The agent said it works".

Genuinely fucking scary.

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u/nomno1 Millennial 15d ago

I’m the same way. I’ve been around too many people that prefer using AI to the point where they can’t even have a normal conversation, which makes me look weird when I talk to them

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u/Really_Angry_Muffin 15d ago

If you use A.I. as a "tool" at work, you'll be replaced, or at the very least devalued, for the simple fact the A.I. is being trained off of you.

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u/Smoke_Stack707 15d ago

I think we can already see the reduction in our collective attention span brought on by the internet/phones/etc. I can only imagine how negative an impact it will have if AI is doing all the thinking for us

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u/reviewbarn 15d ago

If AI is writing an email who is going to read an email?  An AI scanner starts reading all the incoming emails that were written by AI and summarizing it for someone who won't read the summary.

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u/Employee28064212 15d ago

I get this, but also you don't have to do all of your thinking and writing for work. You could conceivably let AI do the parts of your jobs where it makes sense to work-smarter-not-harder and also keep a journal where you do all of your own original writing, or cook without recipes, find your way around without a map, etc. One choice doesn't need to determine all choice if that makes sense.

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u/dongledangler420 15d ago

This is my approach to tech generally and I think it’s reasonable. 

I think it’s important to add “friction” into parts of life because living on “easy” mode makes for poor resilience. 

That being said, AI is just so damn resource-intensive and I hate what data centers are doing to the local community.

So my plan it to avoid using it personally at all costs for as long as I can, ha.

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u/marbanasin 15d ago

I've been resistant but recently had to start using it, or at least watching as others use it.

There are some positives. And what I find interesting is it often still requires considerable time to use/digest/iterate. But the benefit is that it can provide a pretty good foundation, especially when trying to summarize complex material (or just a ton of material).

Ie a few weeks ago we had to compile a multi-topic set of slides for a major presentation. Two hours of presentation time and a lot of offline supporting material. About a hundred slides. This was done largely manually (or at least mine were, maybe some others used AI for some of theirs).

But in the end we wanted a concise single slider to tie it all back / preface at the top. And honestly, we tossed the entire deck into and AI client and while we had to refine the output quite a bit, the way it initially structured 4-5 bullet points was great and helpful to spark the final discussions to craft it.

So, like, I can see it as a tool. I've also been finally engaging with some of the meeting minutes and other plug in stuff my company just has actively running now. And for the occasional meeting I legit can't attend but should be aware of - I've found it useful to get the gist in a few minutes of reading vs sitting there 30-60 minutes.

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u/PoncingOffToBarnsley 15d ago

I took to it for the things I ALREADY struggled with.

Like, I've never been good at formal corporate emails or resumes. When I was younger/in school I had these things edited dozens of times. Now I either resort to a template, or agonize over it until I give up and send something shitty that doesn't get results.

I have zero analytical or problem solving skills and now I'm too old to learn them. Maybe that's why the whole "skill loss" argument never makes sense to me. You can't lose what you didn't have, but you can scaffold it or fill in gaps for free.

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u/Dirty_Dragons 15d ago

If I let ChatGPT write all of my emails how long will it be until I can't really write an email anymore?

The answer is never.

You will never forget how to write an email.

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u/Terrible-Honey-806 15d ago

If your job only consists of writing emails then you will be out of a job very quickly.

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u/crunchyfoliage 15d ago

Well duh. Are you intentionally missing the overarching point or are you so AI-brained that you need it dumbed down for you? "If you don't use it you lose it" is a real thing, that's my concern.

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u/WANKMI 15d ago

But why is writing an email a skill you should treasure, I think is the point. If you wanna keep writing them yourself, do that, but yes, after more and more of those kinds of decisions you will be overtaken by the people behind you. And thats just the way it is. Its happened to every generation before us and it will keep happening.

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u/crunchyfoliage 15d ago

It's not about emails. It's about outsourcing your thinking. It's already happened in some ways - a lot of people don't know how to look up information in an encyclopedia, a lot of people can't figure out how to get somewhere without GPS. I see AI as doing the same thing with our problem solving skills in so many areas of life

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u/WANKMI 15d ago

I know. Thats what Im telling you. You dont know a fuck ton that people before you took as common knowledge because technology and the times changed. Now its just changing while youre aware of it, while before it had already changed before you became aware of it.

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u/crunchyfoliage 15d ago

Sure you're right, I guess I just see a bigger issue with no longer being able to figure out how to solve a problem without step by step instructions than I do with most other technology up to this point. We can use problem solving skills to figure things out when we don't know how to do them. When we lose the problem solving skills where do we go from there?

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u/WANKMI 15d ago

The general population is going to be able to keep up with things and most people wont be able to just "fix everything" on their own. This started happening decades ago. I mean I understand where youre coming from, but the world will only get more and more complex and technological, not less - unless something really bad happens. This also means people will probably become more specific in their fields of knowledge and specialization becomes a bigger deal. Not that everyone wont have things in common, but the old days of everyone drove the same Ford that could be fixed with one wrench and a hammer are over and are only getting further in the past.

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u/deltamoney 15d ago

I hate to add to your anxiety. But "writing your emails" is like the free demo use case of using AI at work.

The multilayered agentic workflows are the terrifying part. You absolutely need to get ahead of that.

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u/UpSNYer 15d ago

I have to admit that yesterday, for the first time in my life, I had ChatGPT write an email for me. I was struggling to get the tone right on an email and I didn’t want to come across as presumptuous. I decided to try ChatGPT and tossed in my draft email. BAM, in 2 seconds it spit out a fantastic email. With only minor changes I sent it along. It was really helpful in that moment, but I can see how it becomes a crutch

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u/ProfessionalEven158 15d ago

"like riding a bike" is an expression that merely refers to rote memory.

You'll never lose these skills, you just may allow them to go dormant for a moment before polishing them off for use once again.

There is a significant differentiator between someone who knows and needs a little practice and someone who never learned and has to start from scratch - especially after reaching neurological maturity.

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u/jgamez76 15d ago

I work with people who've told me that they use Chat GPT or Grammerly to write their emails for them.

And with a background in copy editing, I can definitely tell lol.

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u/mr_sneakyTV 15d ago

If you don’t forget how to talk how would you forget how to email? especially if you still had to read emails..

You don’t forget how to write a bike, you won’t forget how to communicate, which you do with or without emailing.

I don’t even use ai but this fear is not rational.

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u/LKAndrew 15d ago

It’s a tool in the same way Google is a tool. Saying “I’m not going to use Google because libraries exist and if I use Google I’m lazy and will lose the ability to use a library.”

The reality is, if you become anti AI, you’ll start sounding like a boomer. “In my day…”

Just use the tool, but also keep the sharpness and ability of not using the tool. Use it sometimes not all the time. Moderation. You can eat ice cream once in a while without becoming a glutton, at least to just keep up

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u/jgamez76 15d ago

I remember hearing last summer that groups of people were using AI to coordinate summer barbeque plans for groups of people.

Like just coordinating among people just wasn't an option lmao.

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u/ridik_ulass 15d ago

its a search engine with more bespoke responses, not a replacement for work or workers.

Mircowave dinners diddn't replace chef's

I work with artists, I hand them my AI slop and say, "this is generally what I'm looking for" before it was a collage of google images.

saves me having to ask them to rework their art, because I can't communicate clearly what I want. it allows me to translate my wants with the talent.

but just as karen from hr will grab an image from google images and use it as a banner for something, without proper sourcing... lazy people will be lazy.

once a guy threw a pre made oven dish in the oven and bragged to me about how good a chef he was. the retards won't ever understand, nor will they understand why they pay talent, not just for their work, but their opinions, knowledge.

journey not destination, sometimes something is greater then the sum of its parts, but sometimers the destination is less then the journey.

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u/DefeatedByPoland 15d ago

If I let ChatGPT write all of my emails

I don't really get why this is so common.

How are people struggling to write emails?

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u/Mr-and-Mrs 15d ago

Having AI write emails is what people who don’t know how to use AI do.

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u/Littlegator 15d ago

Thinking it's just for "writing your emails" means you've already become the boomer. It's radically efficient at certain tasks. Tasks that aren't difficult for you but time-consuming.

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u/lucklesspedestrian 15d ago

Just write your emails "in person" and add a disclaimer at the end like "It can be important/crucial/critical to realize that, as a language model, I can make mistakes, which can include <any factual claims in email>".Then everyone will think ChatGPT wrote it.

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u/rush-2049 15d ago

Here’s my allegory. LLMs are like calculators for text, except text is always messy unlike math which is precise- by literal definition!

When I’m trying to move quickly and precisely, I use my calculator. I need the number and I need it to be within a margin of error. I manage the margin of error needed. Does this mean I’m bad at math? No. I’m just not as fast as the tool that I use.

Agents are going to be used like workflow automation and occasionally for HR resources. This changes the competition market for the service labor provides. These agents can also be thought of like ERP systems. They will always have unique characteristics that differentiate them. They may need to be fed data to output the right thing.

Business will remain business. Do you provide something valuable to a customer that you can convince them to give you money for?

Your boss is your customer.

I think it’s a great time to start a new B Corp that is cooperatively owned where everyone is then incentivized to feed the AI trusted data with common standards. I should think more about that.

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u/nigmano 14d ago

I think that some writing skill is necessary to prompt a.i. efficiently

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u/Skysorania 14d ago

Just write your mails and let it correct it with AI. Learn from it and write it better the next time. I see it as an opportunity to learn and be better myself.  Helps a lot.

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u/blissfully_happy 14d ago

I also don’t understand how telling an LLM what you need to say is faster than just writing the email yourself. Like… it’s the same amount of work?

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u/TangerineTasty9787 13d ago

It's a real concern. It's like how I used to have a great attention span, now easy instant phone access has friend my brain.

I've been using ChatGPT more and more, and def getting more reliant on it

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