A few mundane things got automated, but these were just back office admin type work. Nothing that's going to show on the P&L. Yeah those people now have a little more time for other things, but those other things are also not revenue generating. No FTE got replaced by it so in the end they just paid for a bunch of administrative positions to be a little less busy. Great for the workers who are now less stressed, but almost no impact on the business financials except there's now yet another subscription.
Your employer is doing it wrong. You need usage surveillance with sanctions for low/declining use, then people won't stop using it.
If there's anything I've learned as a software engineer, it's that agreeing with and defending the ideas of business leaders and Silicon Valley VC influencers proves I'm very intelligent.
when I quote this comment later, with appropriate attribution, please know that I will be shaking my head and frowning while doing so
That’s the explanation how you can have both the anecdotes of amazing AI productivity and rigorous studies showing anything from actual loss of productivity to single-digit gains.
It's like building a super tall Jenga tower very quickly but laying the bricks much worse than a careful player.
The code AI produces is not created equally, not even close.
When you try to replace your entire brain with AI things are going to go wrong.
For the product my friend works on, it's definitely the latter. I definitely don't expect this party to last forever.