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Does it really boost productivity? In my experience, if a long email can be written by an AI, then you should just email the AI prompt directly to the email recipient and save everyone involved some time. AI is like reverse file compression. No new information is added, just noise.
If that email needs to go to a client or stakeholder, then our culture won't accept just the prompt.
Where it really shines is translation, transcription and coding.
Programmers can easily double their productivity and increase the quality of their code, tests and documentation while reducing bugs.
Translation is basically perfect. Human translators aren't needed. At most they can review, but it's basically errorless, so they won't really change the outcome.
Transcribing meetings also works very well. No typos or grammar errors, only sometimes issues with acronyms and technical terms, but those are easy to spot and correct.
As a programmer, there are so very few situations where I've seen LLMs suggest reasonable code. There are some that are good at it in some very limited situations but for the most part they're just as bad at writing code as they are at everything else.
I think the main gain is in automation scripts for people with little coding experience. They don't need perfect or efficient code, they just need something barely functioning which is something that LLMs can generate. It doesn't always work, but most of the time it works well enough