General Discussion

It takes longer to write a prompt that will get me 90% of the way to what I would write myself and then rewrite and recheck everything for that last 10% than it usually takes me to just do the thing myself in almost every case.

The one thing I do find it useful for is doing executive summaries for something I've already written but even there it takes more time because I feel like the standards for polishing and polishing and polishing something (and double checking that AI hasn't dropped out something important or slipped in something untrue) takes more time and is less satisfying work than writing it myself.

I do like AI but I can't say hand on heart that it saves me any meaningful amount of time or significantly improves the quality of my work.

Where it's a nightmare is when new college grads with imposter syndrome use it for everything to sound smart and then I have to spend hours in peer review rewriting all the screeds of AI slop they produce. That significantly increases my workload because it takes twice as long and there's no learning curve when the newbie didn't write it themselves and has no intention of even trying to learn how to write it better in the future.