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> This is the question. If AI helps you complete tasks faster, but those tasks generate more work, are you being more productive?

What an utterly bizarre question. Yes, by definition being more productive means doing more work.



You're misunderstanding the question. It's not that you get more work done, it's that the AI creates work that wasn't there before that is now required to be done. Exanple - AI generates an email faster than I could type it without question, but now I need to go line-by-line to make sure nothing in it is inaccurate before sending it, versus typing it myself and only putting in information I know is accurate. Which scenario takes more time? That's what I think many of the measures are missing. Too many are looking at how quickly the email is typed and calling it a gain, and ignoring the part where you review it. That might still be more productive, but I've yet to see a single AI sales demo that acknowledges this in a realistic way.




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