Morgan Lopes

February 7, 20251 min read

Yes, AI is enabling faster task completion.

Yes, AI is enabling faster task completion.
Unfortunately, AI is also creating more tasks than needed.

Human expertise / experience is still required to notice the difference.

I've reviewed three task lists in the last two days that were clearly generated based on some version of "What is a complete list of what I'd need for..."

More than half the tasks on the list were overkill given the situation.
Hours of unnecessary work.
Gigs of unnecessary data.

Humans are incentivized to call out such waste (b/c time is scarce).

I could have started by completing tasks.

Instead, I first pruned an over-generated list.
Then, explain to stakeholders why each eliminated tasks weren't necessary.

Just letting everyone know, AI is quickly becoming a stakeholder we're asking humans to answer..

But isn't aligned to most of our incentives.

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