For a few weeks but now we gotta give AI estimates i.e. smash it out quicker. So things will get miserable again.

I didn't do fewer hours in these weeks but had time to explore and innovate a little.

In my org, it's grown the level of work. We had a lot of stuff that was never worth the devtime necessary, but now that's opened up that we can do a lot of this stuff in the background

Maybe?

But it's at my day job, and it's because I was able to write a prompt which automates having Copilot review uploaded scanned PDFs of invoices with checks (and the bank line obscured with a pen, so no PII) and then write a batch file which renames the files per a file-naming convention, removing the need to open them in batches of 50, find the Invoice ID, re-save using that filename, then quit and re-launch Adobe Acrobat (if left running, eventually I run into a bug where it stops saving files), then run a .bat file which renames based on Invoice ID as a filename.

Problem of course is I've been running into a limit of number of allowed files per 24 hr. period.

Even if it's not less work, it feels like less effort.

I’ve never written so much software

Not me. I made this comment, a few days ago[0]:

> It’s funny. I was looking at my GH activity graph. It’s been pretty solid green, for years. I stay busy.

> But since I’ve been using an LLM, it’s been bright green.

> I always check in code manually. I don’t let the LLM do it.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48843115

No, but the point is to work just as much and be more productive. No company will ever expect you to work less, unless they are showing you the door.

I have the opposite, because I'm now getting things clients generated that they want me to implement. It's definitely more work and money for me, but it's concerning somewhat because ultimately it's not good for their business. It takes me longer to implement this kind of stuff than it would for me to code it from scratch. That is in a working way, the AI generated code has far more bells and whistles, but also layers and layers of needless complexity that quite literally add no value as in they aren't even a factor of the finished output.

The problem is they are now paying me more, plus paying for the cost of using the AI, and the needless complexity also slows down the employees. So more costs there as well, any future debugging is going to cost far more and at the end of the day they are getting less quality on the core function but far more presentation data that is essentially meaningless.

I have about 10x more to do.

You can if you own the fruit of your labor.