I Don't Want To Do XX
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I would love an AI agent to fill in timesheets. It is an onerous task at best. My role requires me to be spread across many projects and duties. I'm busy doing the tasks, not really clock-watching the tasks. The problem is that without excessive and invasive monitoring, I can't see how I can hand that off to an AI agent. Even then, events would pollute the source of the information that fills in the timesheet.
- A meeting completes before the time allotted (for which we give thanks)
- A colleague (senior or junior) needs help to remove a blocker
- ...etc
I wish there were a way for AI Agents that could take the task of time estimating for work off me. I detest estimation. I hate the unknown and unknowables that reduce the accuracy of an estimate. I dislike the politics and negotiation of estimation. "We don't like that estimate; the figures are unpalatable".
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I don't want AI to help me with work. I want AI/robots to do the tedious things around my house. Pick up the plethora of dirty dishes out of my teenager's bedroom (including that fork waaay back under the desk with his beloved Xbox). Gather up and sort the laundry, then do the whole process through folding and putting it away. Do the prep for cooking (I don't mind the cooking itself) - get out the ingredients, chop the veg, etc., then clean up afterward. Dust. Replace burn-out light bulbs. Clean the bathroom. Change the sheets. Make the bed. Clean the car. Make the Dr's appointments. Add items to the grocery list.
Ok, you know what? I can't decide if I want a robot from the Jetsons (Rosie, I think and I'm showing my age), or if I just want a wife...
😀 😀 😀
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I'm using AI but have found ways to make my worklife better. I've used Visual Studio Code's AI to help generate PowerShell code to renew SQL Certificates and then have it communicate with SQL Server to help with storing outcomes and scheduling. Using this, I can now create templates to use it beyond Certificate renewals.
I'm exploring CoPilot to help organize the large number of Outlook emails so that it will summarize them, turn the result into bullet points and later use Power Automate to create Outlook tasks. The later dream is to look at the Outlook task and show the original email so I can trace it back and identify any faults.
I like using Claude to review my coding ideas. I use it as a form of QA to review complex structures.
This is still learning new development for me. Learning new things is my favorite part of the day. It also makes me a better employee, less likely to be downsized and a better job applicant if I can discuss these things with some experience.
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What I would like AI to do in my workplace, is impossible for AI to do. I work in state government. Managers in state government seem to have the idea that meetings are necessary and as many meetings as possible is better. There are some managers at work who will within the first minute of any meeting want to schedule another meeting, even before we've covered what the current meeting is about. I would like AI to significantly reduce the number of meetings to only what is necessary and not what managers want to have.
But no manager at work will let that happen.
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- David.Poole wrote:
I would love an AI agent to fill in timesheets. It is an onerous task at best. My role requires me to be spread across many projects and duties. I'm busy doing the tasks, not really clock-watching the tasks. The problem is that without excessive and invasive monitoring, I can't see how I can hand that off to an AI agent. Even then, events would pollute the source of the information that fills in the timesheet.
- A meeting completes before the time allotted (for which we give thanks)
- A colleague (senior or junior) needs help to remove a blocker
- ...etc
I wish there were a way for AI Agents that could take the task of time estimating for work off me. I detest estimation. I hate the unknown and unknowables that reduce the accuracy of an estimate. I dislike the politics and negotiation of estimation. "We don't like that estimate; the figures are unpalatable".
To me, since I've done this, the agent should:
- check the xls
- if not updated for today (or yesterda), remind me
- take dictation/text of what to do
- sort out where to update the xls with info
That could be done today. I don't know I want an agent watching what I do, but this almost feels like an assistant that could take dictation.
- Connie wrote:
I don't want AI to help me with work. I want AI/robots to do the tedious things around my house. Pick up the plethora of dirty dishes out of my teenager's bedroom (including that fork waaay back under the desk with his beloved Xbox). Gather up and sort the laundry, then do the whole process through folding and putting it away. Do the prep for cooking (I don't mind the cooking itself) - get out the ingredients, chop the veg, etc., then clean up afterward. Dust. Replace burn-out light bulbs. Clean the bathroom. Change the sheets. Make the bed. Clean the car. Make the Dr's appointments. Add items to the grocery list. Ok, you know what? I can't decide if I want a robot from the Jetsons (Rosie, I think and I'm showing my age), or if I just want a wife...
Lol, I've seen a lot of people want this. A humanoid robot is in the $5k-9k range and it's not far from doing a lot of this. I suspect these might be available in the next 5 years. Whether you trust them, or worry about their ability to do things without damage is another.
I read a sci-fi book recently where people were worried and had their AI-bot with very limited strength. It could fall apart if you banged into it, but then you could re-assemble it. That might be the direction I'd like to move.
- Rod at work wrote:
What I would like AI to do in my workplace, is impossible for AI to do. I work in state government. Managers in state government seem to have the idea that meetings are necessary and as many meetings as possible is better. There are some managers at work who will within the first minute of any meeting want to schedule another meeting, even before we've covered what the current meeting is about. I would like AI to significantly reduce the number of meetings to only what is necessary and not what managers want to have. But no manager at work will let that happen.
AI certainly can't help here unless the culture changes. Managers would need to trust the AI to summarize or coordinate messages.
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The one work task I'd love an AI to tackle unfortunately has a LOT of items that either I'd have to "pre-document" so it could fill in the answer, or it'd have to leave them for me to do later, and that's the "Security Technical Implementation Guidelines" (STIGs) we have to do. A lot of the checks in these are things like "Ensure there are no shared logins, or that any shared logins are documented and approved."
Sure, an AI could get a list of logins off the server, but how would it KNOW that login ABCD is shared and EFGH isn't, unless it had something to refer to (or, I suppose, the initial prompt to get it started said so, but that to me is "pre-documenting" and doing the work.)
I will admit to starting to use AI to remove a lot of the drudgery from taking my bullet-point list of accomplishments and re-writing them into the format my supervisor wants (What / Results / Impact,) and then I go through and make sure it didn't get TOO enthusiastic with them. It'd be nice if I could connect the AI to where I make my list and the system we have to put the accomplishments in, but where I work, that ain't going to happen (security everywhere!)
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reply to jasona.work
We have a means to do that by identifying the IP source of the login and from there identifying the owner of that IP. Query snippet below. There's more to this, but I use it a lot to find who is attaching to what at that moment. I then save the results to a table over time. It runs locally in under 1 second and says a lot of what's going on with that server
SELECT
s.host_name
,c.client_net_address
,s.login_name
,s.program_name
,db_name(r.database_id) as DbName
FROM sys.dm_exec_requests r
CROSS APPLY sys.dm_exec_sql_text(r.sql_handle) st
CROSS APPLY sys.dm_exec_query_plan(r.plan_handle) qp
JOIN sys.dm_exec_sessions s ON r.session_id = s.session_id
JOIN sys.dm_exec_connections AS c ON s.session_id = c.session_id
WHERE s.is_user_process = 1 -- Exclude background system tasks
AND r.database_id is not null
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