Are you using AI?

“Faster garbage is still garbage” sums up the risk pretty well. It sounds like AI would need to prove that it can be checked, traced and trusted before it becomes useful in a work context - interesting, thank you!

Thanks, this is a really useful perspective, especially from someone using AI heavily across both work and personal tasks.

Your point about becoming too dependent on it is interesting. It sounds like AI can speed things up massively, but there’s also a risk that people lose the habit of doing the deeper work themselves.

When you’re using AI for work, what makes you decide whether to trust the output enough to act on it?

It sounds like AI is most useful when it helps make sense of a lot of information or gives people a starting point rather than a finished answer...interesting!

Thanks!

When you use ChatGPT for learning Fusion, do you usually get enough detail to complete the task straight away, or do you still need to cross check with videos/docs?

Thanks. There’s a lot of hype around AI being able to design circuits or write code, but your example shows the gap between something that looks convincing and something that actually works.

It’s interesting that it was more useful for explaining commands than generating working code. That distinction feels important, AI might be helpful as a support or help tool, but not something you can rely on to produce usable output on its own.

It sounds like AI is becoming hard to avoid in search now, even for people who aren’t deliberately choosing to use it.

The Python example is interesting too, AI summaries seem useful when you’re trying to remember a method, library or concept, but not as something you’d trust blindly. That “useful for direction, but needs checking” theme is coming through a lot.

When you do use AI summaries in search, what makes you decide whether the answer is good enough to follow up on?

That’s a really interesting point, thank you. It sounds like you can see the potential value, but the current tools aren’t flexible or context aware enough for industrial systems yet.

The restrictions you mentioned are useful to hear too. It sounds like the issue isn’t only whether the answer is good enough, but whether the tool will actually let you use it in a work context without blocking, warning or avoiding the detail you need.

What kind of work task would you most want AI to help with if those restrictions and accuracy issues were less of a problem?

Thanks, that’s really useful. It sounds like AI can be a helpful starting point for coding, especially when you need a quick example or hint, but the output still needs quite a bit of checking against your actual development environment.

The point about it being either too generic or too specific is interesting too, that seems like one of the bigger frustrations with AI generated code.

When you get a code sample from Bing or a VSCode AI extension, how often does it save you time overall once you’ve checked and adapted it?

That’s a really fair point, I should have included an “I try to avoid AI” option in the poll. It’s useful to hear from people who are actively trying not to use it too. Apologies for that!

Your example is exactly the kind of thing I’m interested in. It sounds like AI/search can be quite frustrating when it gives a confident answer based on incomplete product information, especially for older equipment or less common setups.

When something like that happens, what do you usually do next?

OH please you could have added another option " I try to avoid AI"

but these days it is incorperated with google  so what search engines dont use it,

3 months ago i tried to google using OKI mb470 multi function with centronics port with old computer   

google kept saying  oki mb470 only had USB or network, i tried to submit user manual with page with parrell port 

A week later it had not accepted my info.  I see it now does