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@devilgate :-) … it seems such a reasonable thing to do - but no.
Hinds offered three explanations for this paradoxical result:
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When calculating the 11 hours saved, workers aren’t counting all of the time they spend waiting for AI agents to complete tasks (an activity some are now calling “botsitting”).
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The workers often ignore the cost of toggling between multiple AI tools as they attempt to get a usable response (60% of the sample reported running queries across several tools in search of better outputs).
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Workers may also be participating in what Hinds calls “workplace theater,” in which they are “visibly performing work for bosses and colleagues, rather than focusing on the actual grind of getting things done.”
That third one? ‘may’?
Put that one to the top - because it reveals the problem of people inside organisations that predates anything to do with AI and everything to do with how people in organisations work.
There is too much going on in the area of
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arse covering
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‘to all’ messages - and replies
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‘everyone’ meetings
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eternal ‘brownian motion’- confusing movement with direction
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non aligned objectives
the list is extensive - should I go on?
@manton the nature of the community you are building here on micro blog - which (I am sure unintentionally) lean towards ‘tech heavy’ (pro and enthusiastic amateurs) would suggest to me to expect that their machines would drift to the higher end of the ‘spec spectrum’.
@manton been looking forward to this … thank you. As you said a month ago - when you switch it on - they will just appear … 🖇️ working! - css styling aside.
@lmika Which is why segmentation like laptop, desktop, pc, phone etc are meaningless to understand the market. To do that you need context .. coupled with learning curve and ROI … that typically the Manufacturers ignore because that is hard .. and doesn’t help them. I am with you, what I do with my Mac cannot easily be replaced by an iPad .. but for a lot of people it could .. although they aren’t your typical Micro.Blog user.
@lmika Way beyond my pay grade to have an opinion one way or the other but the optics include Trump specifically being a petulant vindictive lying SOB .. might suggest alternative realities.
Just stumbled across 🖇️ this post from 3 years ago. Just an hour ago I saved a ‘watch later’ YouTube about Viv. Clearly the ether is sending a message.
Been reading ‘temporarily unavailable’ for last 24 hours and still only just learnt why .. of course … It’s the vindictive Orange Clown in the Whitehouse. (at least that’s my take on the news … now I’ll go and find out whether it’s true.)
@rom had not heard of 🔗 offprint or 🔗 pckt - amazing how many of these little writing apps are cropping up - my equivalent of those - i think - is 🔗 sourcefeed .. by only challenge is trying to work out why i need any of them as opposed to just dropping thoughts directly into here … but fun for sure.
Back to the plot - I am fully aware that PEBCAK is alive and well in this household - so will continue to explore. If others are getting good results - then it is clearly me.
@rom I THINK @manton has done that already? Though 🖇️ not overly impressed with what Blusky deliver. Maybe I am doing it wrong? Or am I confusing 🖇️ATmosphere with Standard.Site?
Seconded.
In fact I often don’t bother with ‘First’ and move directly to ‘Second’
That all said - to me (no spoilers) the final scene should have been the one around 5 minutes before the end.
🖇️ Continuing … and related …
Yesterday I saved off 🔗 Cringely’s piece into my Readwise- and <mark>highlighted</mark a lot.
@jthingelstad Love Thingy. The ‘little guy’ particularly.
Just like the Rolling Rock Ads all those years ago …
The Walker Brothers:
- not Brothers - just Mause, Engel and Leeds
- not Walkers - just a great Run