What’s the biggest problem that AI helped you with ?
September 15, 2025
For exemple as a software engineer ai helped me reduce the debugging time by 50%
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Deciding whether or not it was worth my time. After having to double-check everything it spouts and research everything anyway…I decided it’s not worth my time to use. And it only has itself to thank.
It taught me not to space my question marks.
I use technology less now. Every time I see something is AI I grow more disdain for technology and boycott it in the future. As much as possible.
So it’s helping me be more in touch with the world.
Stopped me wasting so much time sorting through unrelated info when I was trying to look something up on google.
Had to file a Superior court case. Couldn’t afford a lawyer. Created 10 legal documents and did it on my own with AI’s help. Loaded all my documents and court templates into Notebook LM, along with all of the relevant statutes. Of course it gave me several wrong answers, but also many correct ones. No chance I could have done it without AI. Can it replace a lawyer? Nope! Not yet anyway. Looks like I’m going to win.
I am working on an airport expansion project.
I was thrown in after about 2 years and was foreword an ungodly amount of information (all said and done more than 20,000 emails and shitloads of pdfs) from about 12 different teams.
99% of this is entirely irrelevant to me, so i had a new hire throw all the email chains into chapgpt and had it narrow the list down to what was actually relevant.
Took probably a week’s worth of work for me about a day for one of my designers.
Similar to you, it helps me write scripts much more quickly. Saves me a lot of time.
My phone did a weird thing. Uploaded the screen shot and asked what was going on. I got it fixed in 5 minutes. I’m not a fan of where I see AI going, but it helped in that instance. AI is really the next big thing since smartphones. It won’t change everything……but it will have broad impact. It already has.
Getting it to communicate with other forms of technology to solve problems that the old school softwares aren’t willing to communicate with the user about.
I’m a software engineer. AI just slows me down. I know what I want to do and I know how to do it. I tried using AI but it either spits out garbage or states mind-numbingly obvious things.
After about a day of trying to use AI and giving it the benefit of the doubt I found it to be completely and utterly useless for me. It actually slowed me down dramatically.
I like using AI to clean up the audio on some of the old internet videos I enjoyed when I was young. NotebookLM is a great tool for digesting information. I use Makerlab’s AI to generate models of obscure video game and cartoon characters so I can 3D print them, then my kid sister and her friends have little craft parties where they sit around and paint them.
It can be useful at turning raw dotpointed thoughts/information into professional communication like letters and reports, so long as you’re incredibly careful to catch the hallucinations that it will generate.
In my day to day life though all it does is waste my time with annoying popups or “answers” in Google that are far too unreliable to be remotely useful.
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Deciding whether or not it was worth my time. After having to double-check everything it spouts and research everything anyway…I decided it’s not worth my time to use. And it only has itself to thank.
It taught me not to space my question marks.
I use technology less now. Every time I see something is AI I grow more disdain for technology and boycott it in the future. As much as possible.
So it’s helping me be more in touch with the world.
Stopped me wasting so much time sorting through unrelated info when I was trying to look something up on google.
Had to file a Superior court case. Couldn’t afford a lawyer. Created 10 legal documents and did it on my own with AI’s help. Loaded all my documents and court templates into Notebook LM, along with all of the relevant statutes. Of course it gave me several wrong answers, but also many correct ones. No chance I could have done it without AI. Can it replace a lawyer? Nope! Not yet anyway. Looks like I’m going to win.
I am working on an airport expansion project.
I was thrown in after about 2 years and was foreword an ungodly amount of information (all said and done more than 20,000 emails and shitloads of pdfs) from about 12 different teams.
99% of this is entirely irrelevant to me, so i had a new hire throw all the email chains into chapgpt and had it narrow the list down to what was actually relevant.
Took probably a week’s worth of work for me about a day for one of my designers.
Similar to you, it helps me write scripts much more quickly. Saves me a lot of time.
My phone did a weird thing. Uploaded the screen shot and asked what was going on. I got it fixed in 5 minutes. I’m not a fan of where I see AI going, but it helped in that instance. AI is really the next big thing since smartphones. It won’t change everything……but it will have broad impact. It already has.
Getting it to communicate with other forms of technology to solve problems that the old school softwares aren’t willing to communicate with the user about.
I’m a software engineer. AI just slows me down. I know what I want to do and I know how to do it. I tried using AI but it either spits out garbage or states mind-numbingly obvious things.
After about a day of trying to use AI and giving it the benefit of the doubt I found it to be completely and utterly useless for me. It actually slowed me down dramatically.
I like using AI to clean up the audio on some of the old internet videos I enjoyed when I was young. NotebookLM is a great tool for digesting information. I use Makerlab’s AI to generate models of obscure video game and cartoon characters so I can 3D print them, then my kid sister and her friends have little craft parties where they sit around and paint them.
It can be useful at turning raw dotpointed thoughts/information into professional communication like letters and reports, so long as you’re incredibly careful to catch the hallucinations that it will generate.
In my day to day life though all it does is waste my time with annoying popups or “answers” in Google that are far too unreliable to be remotely useful.
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