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.

 

[satchamo]

I use it daily for my job but we’re provided with an internal system we’re encouraged to use. It brings me a lot of pride knowing I’m helping the company train my replacement.

 

[SonnyDay]

I don’t eat steak often enough to use it every day…

 

[mikkel318]

I just started using it for looking at applications. Claude.ai can give you great results if you upload draw odds pdfs from the state websites. A simple "Which hunt areas/gmus are available at X preference point level?" is a pretty slick way to narrow down areas from that filter. I use GoHunt too, but they usually don't update their filtering odds very soon after they come out.

 

[sodaksooner]

Ive played with it with known data (already know the answers) and it actually does a decent job, but calculates it much faster. It's not 100% on but close. We have a pretty strict policy at work as far as the data we can use, but for what I have used it for, it's not terrible. I have done some car/engine build stuff as well and the suggestions I get are mostly on par with the "experts" Also most search engines give pretty decent AI responses without having to look through a shitload of pages.

 

[DangerRanger]

My work has its own proprietary version that I use to create essentially reports and other performance management stuff. Pretty convenient, insert logs of everything I’ve done and it churns out summaries catered to the questions/prompt I give it.

Has saved me a lot of time doing nonsense stuff instead of actually working

 

[Rich M]

The only AI i use is the one at the top of google when i search stuff. It often contains errors and misleading information, so will take it with a grain of salt.

We are not allowed to use it at work - absolutely forbidden.

 

[HunterGatherer]

We’re all using AI in some form whether we realize it or not. It’s built into so many things we use on a daily basis. I avoid it except for the AI search results that are automatic. But I never take the summary of the info as accurate. I’ll go through all the links the AI used to come up with the summary and then draw my own conclusions.

Cognitive offloading will lead to cognitive atrophy. If you take a forklift to the gym to lift the weights for you what do you think is going to happen ?

 

[Poser]

We’re all using AI in some form whether we realize it or not. It’s built into so many things we use on a daily basis. I avoid it except for the AI search results that are automatic. But I never take the summary of the info as accurate. I’ll go through all the links the AI used to come up with the summary and then draw my own conclusions.

Cognitive offloading will lead to cognitive atrophy. If you take a forklift to the gym to lift the weights for you what do you think is going to happen ?

The idea in theory at least, is that AI serves as your "co-pilot", freeing up mental capacity of the mundane for the more complex. I think that people who have been around modern tech exclusively in their adult lives, that may very well be true, but for Gen Alpha, maybe even the youngest Gen Z, its just going to be woven in their fabric of day to day life. However, they could very well be challenged by a new set of problems that require mental capacity we can't yet anticipate. ~10 years ago, we didn't really anticipate the issues around AI short of a handful of movies that were imagining a future: 2001 Space Odyssey, War Games, The Terminator, Ex Machina, Blade Runner etc. So, now, we're dedicating a lot of mental capacity on how to best use and not use AI.

But then there are the unanticipated consequences. I don't recall anyone expressing concern about AI generated music, for example and, yet, here we are with a AI generated song on the "country" charts, all of the revenue simply going to the publishing company instead of writers. What's going to stop the streaming services from just generating their own AI music and serving that up in favor of human generated music and then just keeping all of the money? Same for scripts, books, film etc. Of course, there could also emerge a future where their is a total backlash against anything AI generated presented as art, solutions etc.

Anyway, all of that to say that I think we replace one set of problems with another. Afterall, calculators were controversial in math classes BITD, but they opened up the ability to do much more complex math at increasingly lower levels of education. While you may not be manually doing the computations, you still have to understand a certain amount of complex math in order to determine the solution. A math professor from the 1950s might be horrified at the idea of modern calculators, but, at the same time, might be unable to pass the equivalent class to the one he taught without the use of a calculator.

Its not necessarily that we are using a a forklift to lift the weights for us, its that the forklift is lifting one set of weights while we are lifting another. In theory, at least.

 

[HunterGatherer]

The idea in theory at least, is that AI serves as your "co-pilot", freeing up mental capacity of the mundane for the more complex. I think that people who have been around modern tech exclusively in their adult lives, that may very well be true, but for Gen Alpha, maybe even the youngest Gen Z, its just going to be woven in their fabric of day to day life. However, they could very well be challenged by a new set of problems that require mental capacity we can't yet anticipate. ~10 years ago, we didn't really anticipate the issues around AI short of a handful of movies that were imagining a future: 2001 Space Odyssey, War Games, The Terminator, Ex Machina, Blade Runner etc. So, now, we're dedicating a lot of mental capacity on how to best use and not use AI.

But then there are the unanticipated consequences. I don't recall anyone expressing concern about AI generated music, for example and, yet, here we are with a AI generated song on the "country" charts, all of the revenue simply going to the publishing company instead of writers. What's going to stop the streaming services from just generating their own AI music and serving that up in favor of human generated music and then just keeping all of the money? Same for scripts, books, film etc. Of course, there could also emerge a future where their is a total backlash against anything AI generated presented as art, solutions etc.

Anyway, all of that to say that I think we replace one set of problems with another. Afterall, calculators were controversial in math classes BITD, but they opened up the ability to do much more complex math at increasingly lower levels of education. While you may not be manually doing the computations, you still have to understand a certain amount of complex math in order to determine the solution. A math professor from the 1950s might be horrified at the idea of modern calculators, but, at the same time, might be unable to pass the equivalent class to the one he taught without the use of a calculator.

Its not necessarily that we are using a a forklift to lift the weights for us, its that the forklift is lifting one set of weights while we are lifting another. In theory, at least.

The issue is that many people, especially younger generations, will use AI as “autopilot” instead of “copilot”. Their cognitive abilities and capacity for critical thinking and problem solving will not develop in the same way they did for earlier generations. We’ve already seen this happening with the invention of the internet. Kids don’t respect or value lived experience in the same way Gen X does. Pre-internet I was thrilled to find a guy that knew how to work on cars or hunt or had unique perspectives gained from life experiences and I would latch on to them in order to educate myself on things I was interested in. Youth today can just look everything up on the internet and ignore the old timers.

They say we are the last generation of true humans. We are beginning to merge with technology with biology. As AI progresses and we start integrating tech into our bodies, There is going to be a certain population of humans that reject it all in the name of remaining human. The tech adopters and Neuralink implanted humans will dominate with their advantages. I see a real split coming.