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Beware AI Productivity Theater

As LLMs permeate more areas of work, the author warns against 'AI Productivity Theater'—using AI tools to generate high volume of surface-level work while avoiding deep thinking. Using software engineering as an example, LLMs speed up implementation but can lead to pointless activities like shipping random features or outsourcing decisions to AI. The advice is to expand scope: propose bigger projects, get involved in marketing, or do more product design.

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Beware AI Productivity Theater
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  • AI Productivity Theater refers to using AI for many seemingly productive activities without substantive goals.
  • LLMs are generative tools, not intentional ones, and can accelerate work in a vacuum of understanding.
  • Examples include shipping random features, pointless refactors, and outsourcing decisions to LLMs.
  • Software engineers should expand their scope to bigger projects, marketing, or product design.

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