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nradov 7 hours ago

LLMs might not save time but they certainly increase quality for at least some office work. I frequently use it to check my work before sending to colleagues or customers and it occasionally catches gaps or errors in my writing.

toraway 6 hours ago | parent [-]

But that idealized example could also be offset by another employee who doubles their own output by churning out lower-quality unreviewed workslop all day without checking anything, while wasting other people's time.

sunrunner an hour ago | parent [-]

Something I call the 'Generate First, Review Never' approach, seemingly favoured by my colleagues, and which has the magical quality of increasing the overall amount of work done through an increased amount of time taken by N receivers of low-quality document having to review, understand and fact check said document.

See also: AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity [1]

[1] https://hbr.org/2025/09/ai-generated-workslop-is-destroying-...