Changing the Paradigm of Work

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Changing the Paradigm of Work

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May 28, 2025 at 12:00 am

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David.Poole SSC Guru Points: 76144 More actions · Answer 1

I think it takes a while for people to grasp the implications of a change in technology and work out how best to make use of it. Otherwise its "faster horses".

I'm already getting value out of GenAI but I'm not sure how much what I do with AI and code is really AI, ML or a.n.other tool with an AI badge on it. Where is the line between AI and ML anyway?

The bits where I am finding AI is working for me are

Collating information in response to a search
Summarising and improving readability for publicly available documentation, such as that for AWS.
Getting example code for specific scenarios
Code Quality comments (SonarQube, Sourcery.ai)
Editorial feedback on writing (Yoast, Grammarly - are these AI or badged as AI?)
Pull request summaries (doesn't always work)

The PR summary is disappointing. Github Copilot is reasonable with Python but gives a "language not supported" for SQL.

I want simple stuff from AI. Remove the small frictions from my professional life.

Co-pilot (or similar) get those PR summaries working and on a wide array of languages. SQL isn't new, neither is Terraform.
Cookie consent. Automatically "Reject All" for any site that uses that one with a lot of hidden "legitimate interest" switches.
Timesheets. Fill it in for me from my Outlook diary and Git commit history.
Yoast, Grammarly, reading score tools. Currently useful but need a bit more ooomph.
Close captions on videos, teams, slack and Zoom. Please work for people with accents.

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david.gugg SSCertifiable Points: 6141 More actions · Answer 2

This editorial made me think of JARVIS from the Iron Man movies. Tony Stark simply gives JARVIS orders and he carries them out. His workshop is built around having an AI assistant that can handle all the grunt work for him, as well as robotic automation to handle the physical work.

You said "Assume that it is at least as competent as someone you work with." That would effectively make each of us an IT manager, around to make strategic decisions and dole out orders to our AI assistants to execute those decisions. I guess that would be my answer to your question - I tell the AI my strategic vision and it creates the environment to make it work. It would likely be an iterative process, but if the AI is good it wouldn't require too many iterations.

All that said, our current version of AI are nowhere near that. As far as I can tell, it just queries the internet and creates general code to get us close to what we're specifically asking for. I don't think it'll ever get to that level, but who knows? If it does, it'll have major implications to the labor market that are rather frightening to think about. It wouldn't take much improvement to for AI to become more competent than some of our current MSPs...

Be still, and know that I am God - Psalm 46:10