6.000 Führungskräfte haben Schwierigkeiten, den KI-Produktivitätsboom zu nutzen

I love The Register comment section, they do sarcasm ***right***.

The metric was sales per employee. Not sure the life cycle of most products of these companies.

A survey of almost 6,000 corporate execs across the US, UK, Germany, and Australia found that more than 80 percent detect no discernible impact from AI on either employment or productivity.

80% is high, wow

The one job AI seems to have in fact taken so far is the meeting transcriptionist. AI can listen to the conversation, write it down, summarize it, and clean it up. Still needs someone in the meeting to review it for accuracy though, as it can get subtle details wrong because it’s not human.

As the human being who used to be responsible for this task, great! It means I no longer have to take notes during the meeting and I can take a nap instead.

It’s saving me exactly 0% of my time because *I took those notes during the meeting anyway* and would have them written up by the end and ready to go into the same folder that the AI will dump its transcript into.

80% of companies dont know how to use new tech correctly. It could be the 20% who are leveraging it correctly will see the benefit?

 Within my own company I see experienced engineers saying they are getting nothing out of it, and yet, more junior engineers getting more out of it. Like when assembly gurus poo-pooed compilers, you can say for a while it’s offering nothing, but for those who can use it right, it definitely is a benefit.

Edit: to clarify, it’s not thet inexperiend people think they are getting something out of it, but are just getting bad code,.they are actively getting something of real benefit out of it, and if they hone that they can actually surpass an experienced engineer who ignores it.

This is hilarious. My team has been on a hiring freeze for 4 years. But slowly people do leave either internally, externally, or just move away. The only reason we can still decently deliver with no backfills is thanks to LLMs

Maybe the executives at my company also answered no, but in their minds teams are just making an extra effort with no backfills , I’m not sure how they would even decide on this question

In general good LLM tooling feels very bottom up. Initially the higher ups gave us trash. Tab nine, codeium, codium (yes 2 different companies, genius), and other useless tools. People were paying for their own Claude code and feeding it company code with no safeguards

Eventually they broke down and gave us the good stuff, and now we’re back working at a higher pace.

But do I think the executives understand what we’re doing? Probably not. Do they understand how many people in corporate America were feeding secret information to LLMs with no safeguards? Also probably not

For most businesses, it amounts to a solution searching for a problem. There’s a massive echo chamber of boosters around AI productivity and I think the reality is with a few exceptions, there’s no there there.

Try this two step process

Replace the exec with AI.

Unplug it.

The AI boom will pop when executives tell IT to stop renewing anual subscriptions.

If only the bosses would listen to any of the workers telling them…

The funny thing is that it has made workers‘ productivity exponentially more efficient and higher…

But the things people do aren’t meaningful 99% of the time. Endless meetings, bureaucracy, red tape, actual productive work is actually rare.