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over 80% are seeing no productivity gains from adopting AI yet overwhelmingly they’re predicting productivity gains (though the expected lift is like 1%?) I feel like there’s research showing that proper sleep, higher morale, and clear vision/roadmap have a FAR larger impact on productivity

I'm always willing to be proven wrong, but the research paper is using self-reported data 6000 execs across a variety of industries, so it's hard for me to believe it's not based in reality

it is still possible for 6000 people to be wrong or doing it wrong—or for numbers to be inflated, i guess even anecdotally I can tell you the real value of mlops and aiops has been crazy

I've definitely got anecdotal evidence that a few people I know are getting great results from it. again, I don't think it's not worth exploring or adopting. I just don't know that it's "burn all previous bridges" transformative

I have this lil theory that LLMs are uniquely good at software compared to almost everything else atm for a few compounding reasons: 1. It’s made by software people, so we’re biased toward our use cases. 2. There happens to be an enormous corpus of code to train on, legally and otherwise.

3. We’re the early adopters and have had the most time to get used to using it. I can absolutely understand a CEO of a paper mill might try the tech and get bad results out of it. And even within software this tech is at ⚠️proceed with caution⚠️ level. You may get eaten by a Grue.