alt Hacker NewsBut that idealized example could also be offset by another employee who doubles their own output by churning out lower-quality unreviewed workslop all day without checking anything, while wasting other people's time.
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bartread • today at 12:47 PM
Yeah, but that's no different from any other aspect of office work, and more conventional forms of automation. Gains by one person are often offset to some extent by the laziness, inattentiveness, or ineptitude of others.
What AI has done is accelerate and magnify both the positives and the negatives.
Something I call the 'Generate First, Review Never' approach, seemingly favoured by my colleagues, and which has the magical quality of increasing the overall amount of work done through an increased amount of time taken by N receivers of low-quality document having to review, understand and fact check said document.
See also: AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity [1]
[1] https://hbr.org/2025/09/ai-generated-workslop-is-destroying-...