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I had automation setup for anything I needed for work, gen AI made me feel like I had to babysit a dumb junior developer so I lost interest

Managment uses it to make mock websites then doesn't listen when we point out flows, so nothing new there

Some in digital marketing are using it for data collection/anlysis, but it reaches wrong conclusions 50% of the time (their words) so they are slowly dropping it and using it for meneal tasks and simple automations

In design we had a trial period but has the same issue as coding: either it makes something a senior designer could have made in 2 minutes or it introduces errors that take a long time to fix, to then do it again the next prompt

we are a senior dev team, although relative small, and to me it seems like it only really works as a subsitute for junior devs... but the point of junior devs is to grow someone into a senior with the knowledge you need in the company so i don't really get the usecase overall