It’s orthogonal to the point of the article but:

“AI can't replace lawyers and doctors, but they can automate their paperwork and free up time for them to do other things”

So my question is - in software engineering (where this has bitten hardest): does anyone know _anyone_ who is less busy and has time to “do other things”? Nope, nor me.

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jaapz 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I do many more "other" things that I previously wouldn't even dream about doing in the same time. Work that would have taken weeks now takes minutes or hours.

So yes I am doing many more "other" things. But those other things are still building features for my product.

	▲	dmje 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yeh - same. But I read “other” as “leisure things”. It’s not like we’re all having a nice time elsewhere, we’ve just compounded the amount of stuff we can deliver so we deliver even more. It’s the polar opposite of the dream where the tech does the nasty shit so we can all go chill.