I must be ancient because I've never used AI. My manager insists it can make my role easier but I've found no need to use it.

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1. AnonymousNovember 2,2025 at 6:43PM UTC

   Well, since you have college-age kids, which shows you must be older yourself; Frankly, you need to get with the times. AI is here to stay - all of us can/should learn to use it as a tool, not a replacement for work. Many schools are teaching kids how to use AI, sign of the times.

   An idea would be for you to find someone outside of your company to give you the rundown on how to use it responsibly. If your boss is indicating this to you - please go with this suggestion or you could be let go in favor of someone who does.

   I remember decades ago when computers were very slowly making in roads to office environments, my dad managed an office with 26 employees. There was one who had purchased a computer and had it on his desk, fiddling around with how to make it be useful/productive in his work. Dad nearly fired the guy and said that was nonsense and computers were going no where. Needless to say, it didn't go more than a couple years when dad was relieved of his management responsibilites but not the job. Wise up! Get over yourself!

   You can play with AI to get started! Go to ChatGPT, and put in the ingredients in your fridge and ask for a recipe!

   Ask Perplexity to summarize a book you've put off reading, at least so you understand what it was about.

   AI is a new technology which is very helpful in life, not just work - make it your friend!

2. AnonymousNovember 3,2025 at 2:03AM UTC

   AI is a mixed blessing; it uses an insane amount of electricity and water and is an ecological nightmare. At the same time, it can be very helpful for certain things. As a teacher, it can help me create well-formatted worksheets that are translated into several languages to meet the needs of my students. If I give it a learning target, success criteria, and the standards I want students to meet, it can give me a good rough draft of a lesson plan that I can then tweak and actually use in the classroom. However, AI isn't perfect and sometimes it makes weird mistakes. I asked it for 20 clean, non-offensive jokes to use at school. None of the jokes were inappropriate, but it told the same joke (word for word) 8 times. When I asked it if that was part of the joke, it said no; it made a mistake. There have been times when it has done really crazy, concerning things too-- like telling someone to break up with their spouse and go meet a nonexistent person at a real apartment address. If your boss wants you to use AI, ask for specifics as to the expectations, then give it a try. Like anything else, it's a tool that can be used well or misused. I don't think it is going away any time soon, so it's important to become familiar with it.

3. Tami CannizzaroNovember 10,2025 at 7:47PM UTC

   I've found that AI works best if you provide a lot of detailed information/direction. And, for my work, it's helped that I have actually written content first, then asked AI to help me improve my content (per my directions, i.e. here's the tone, this is how I plan to use this content, this is my target audience, etc.) It helped my husband with some contract work - very lengthy legal documents he was reviewing and he was trying to condense each section into bullet points pertaining to a certain topic (which is what he needed). Asked AI to do that and it saved him a ton of time. For students or anyone, I think using AI is a bad idea when the person is trying to get AI to do the work for them - example, "write a review of this book". The instructions are too generic; AI simply goes to the internet and pulls information. We need to do the work first, provide direction for improvements and see what AI can do. We still have to add our personality/tone to the work.

4. AnonymousNovember 11,2025 at 1:44PM UTC

   I sometimes refused offers to have an intern because the effort of supervising them made the project harder than if I had just done it myself, and didn’t save any time. I usually feel the same way about AI.

   (I also have had really good interns.)

5. AnonymousNovember 11,2025 at 2:08PM UTC

   Hello, you have received great responses. If you want someone to sit with you and take you through some AI, I will be happy to do that. We can spend 45min-1 hr to go over the why and what of AI Beginners Review, prompting, and real-world examples. Just let me know, and I can share my details.

   p.s. I have two kids in their twenties, and their level of patience can be 50/50. Sometimes they have the patience to show me a few things, and sometimes, it's the infamous eyerolls. lol

6. GirlBossanova934974November 14,2025 at 4:52PM UTC

   I have been designing and implementing AI systems and neural networks since 1990. Back then, we called them expert systems or rule based systems. First thing. I would be very wary of bosses who come with AI speeches and start hand waving etc.. This is classic flavor of the month club stuff. Second, AI today is highly dependent on what you train it on and point it at. A prompt sent to ChatGPT can generate a far different answer than Gemini or Claude. As for AI writers, they are very good ones to choose from. However, they all lack one thing. They tend to leave out important details that readers want to see and the phrasing can seem very vanilla.Three, I would pick out a business problem and go from there. Find an AI tool or Large Language Model that works well with that problem. Point it at top line sources if you are doing more complex work. Last, be prepared to adjust and add to your prompts to fine tune results. AND VERIFY the info. AI can start making stuff.

7. BrianDean DeanJanuary 23,2026 at 1:04PM UTC

   I completely understand your reluctance to use AI; if you are confident in your abilities, it may seem superfluous. However, AI can occasionally serve as a helpful aid for monotonous or time-consuming jobs rather than taking the place of your skills. For example, I use tools like https://cabina.ai/tools/code-generator when I need to quickly prototype or test small code snippets. It merely expedites trial and error, allowing me to concentrate on problem-solving rather than tedious typing, rather than writing the final output for me. In a similar vein, workers or students can appropriately use AI to increase productivity, discover patterns, or save time without sacrificing their own skill set. It's about keeping complete control over the result while working smarter, not harder.

8. Haley JamesJanuary 30,2026 at 12:16PM UTC

   People often use AI to make their work better. If you are sure about your skills and do everything in time, I dont see any need to use AI tools.

9. Mia BrightJanuary 30,2026 at 12:34PM UTC
   Wow, I totally get your frustration. It’s crazy that kids with advanced writing skills are being flagged for AI use just because their style is strong! Honestly, that’s where tools like Justdone can be useful. Humanize text, not to cheat, but to make sure writing sounds natural and consistent with the person’s own voice. Even for adults, I use AI sometimes to polish phrasing or smooth transitions, but the key is keeping your own ideas front and center. It’s not about replacing skill, it’s about helping writing read like a human wrote it, which is really what these “AI detection” debates are missing sometimes.
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11. Stephen ChandlerAugust 1,2026 at 2:32PM UTC

    Many tasks can still be done perfectly well without AI, so there's no reason to force it into every workflow. When dealing with long reports or research papers, https://aipdfreader.net/ has been genuinely useful for quickly understanding the main points without reading every page, which feels like a practical use rather than replacing real work. Finding the right tool for a specific problem makes much more sense than using AI just because it's popular.