Survey: Why Non-Tech Workers Don't Trust AI—and Fear for Their Jobs

My experience with it is technical knowledge correlates negatively to AI enthusiasm

As a long time tech worker i just hate computers entirely.

There are two types of tech worker, the ones who want to find a way to turn themselves into a literal monkey and never look at a computer ever again. Those that love tech hype trains but couldn't program their way out of a paper bag and probably end up in management which drive the former to want to metamorphose into

The anti-IOT techies must all hate AI even more. The inverse must also be an overlapping circle too.

There's a contingent that like it. For some, they don't have to even pretend to have social skills since they can outsource writing to AI. They are also increasingly using it in place of google/copy-pasting from stackoverflow/etc to get "quick fix" solutions to their problems. It's not particularly good at those tasks IMO, but I genuinely think for some people the dopamine hit of copy-pasting something directly from chatgpt and not having to so much as lift a finger and it working first try, is addictive, and even though they usually have to troubleshoot it and re-prompt and then make changes by hand, they just keep trying for that sweet no-effort fix. For some of them they seem to treat it like a junior coworker you can offload all your work onto, forever.

In my experience (I've literally never used it but had coworkers try to feed its answers to me when we're working together on something, or giving what it spit out to me to fix for them), it tends to do okay for common use-cases, ones that you can almost always just look up in documentation or stackoverflow anyhow, but in more niche problems, it will often hallucinate that there's a magic parameter that does exactly what you want. It will never tell you "Nope, can't be done, you have to restructure around doing it this other way", unless you basically figure it out yourself and prompt it into doing so.