How often do you use AI? [i.e. ChatGPT / Grok]

[logflame]

Every day. As a software engineer it has increased my productivity in ways I couldn't have ever imagined. Things that used to take me 1-2 weeks to build out can now be done in a day. I also use it for things outside of work like making meal plans, trip planning, etc.

 

[Chris in TN]

Memes every once in a while.

Otherwise not at all.

 

[DunnCoHunter]

I tell chat gpt to give me recommendations for hunting gear using rokslide as its source. Not that I don’t love killing time on here… but it is much quicker than reading 10 different threads on leg gaiters haha

 

[ARB]

couple time a week

 

[ODB]

Can’t stand it. Don’t use it and I think it’s brain rot.

Guys at work can’t perform basic calculations and they take what it gives them. I’ve pointed out so many blatant wrong data it gives them but they keep using it.

I’ve seen this as well.

 

[Poser]

Through work, I have subscriptions to all of them. I prefer Gemini 2.5 Pro, by far. I don’t like Chat GPT very much by comparison.

If you go onto the job marketplace anytime, you’ll most likely have to use AI to write your initial resume or you won’t make it through the initial AI screening.

 

[Doc Holliday]

My employer forces us to use it periodically (ie: in a team meeting, manager asks us if we use the AI app, we all stare blankly. Manager says, OK, all of you have to ask it to do these 3 things, and report back to me by close of business tomorrow with screenshots, etc.) So then a few months later, same thing happens but in a different way. We know how to use it, we just don't want to. Pretty sure they are going to tighten the screws on us through bonuses, performance reviews, etc and they are going to start punishing those who don't use it, or just get rid of anyone not falling in line.

 

[Ranger 692]

Also in the employer forced camp.

 

[COJoe]

If you go onto the job marketplace anytime, you’ll most likely have to use AI to write your initial resume or you won’t make it through the initial AI screening.

I am not in HVAC any more at work but I help our HVAC supervisor with interviews. In the past two years, we seen that most of the resumes are being generated by AI. They look and sound wonderful but after the page of technical questions we ask them, we quickly find out that too much of what they claim to know is false or nowhere near the level of expertise that the AI generated resume claims. I enjoy an honest, simple resume that uses common trade language to express their level of knowledge.

For example, The resume may say something like, "My level of expertise enhances the customer experience. " Once we talk with the applicant, we find they are a simple person (but a quality tech) who would never talk that way. It's these kind of examples that AI isn't personal to people and who they really are, good, bad or indifferent.