Research: The Penalty of Using AI at Work

https://hbr.org/2025/08/research-the-hidden-penalty-of-using-ai-at-work

by kiyanwang • 11 months ago

4 2 11 months ago

One thing about my own challenges with AI are;

Almost every other tool I adopt, once I learn how to use it, I always know the use case. Whether it's slack, docker an IDE, zoom, most programming libraries. So yeah, it took me a while to switch from VIM to an IDE, but there was never _really_ a question of "Maybe the IDE won't work here". VIM might have been better for certain things, but the IDE didn't just outright fail, there was always an option.

AI, there's always the overhead of wondering, maybe it just won't work? So when I think it will work it's great, but it's very hard to get addicted to a solution that has that overhead.

sdotdev• 11 months ago

That social switch will probably take so long for certain groups or might not just happen at all.

Research: The Penalty of Using AI at Work

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