I feel a little uneasy about my AI use now (at work), a line has been crossed, anyone else?

I love ChatGPT (and AI in general I guess). It is fantasticality useful and I use it every day. Everything from tech questions to recipe ideas. And at work, I don't mind copilot. It can scan emails and SharePoint and has been very useful. I like that I can save me time, but until now it's been cases of "yep, I can do this thing myself, but it's speeding things up.. all good!" Now, I am straying into (forgive the coarse exaggeration): "I am a meatbag who tells AI what to do, checks its outputs, and then finishes things off" I am outsourcing thinking. It makes me uneasy. It isn't rewarding as such, the victories can feel short-term, although maybe that's me being a cynical overthinker. My internal line was roughly: "could I do this myself? if yes, and it's just saving me time - fine." but now I wonder, are the outputs I'm getting things that I wouldn't be able to do myself? and then you get to wondering, do I have to use AI? or is the nature of tasks being delegated to you essentially creating an implicit requirement of we expect you to use AI to do this ? especially when your superiors are using AI and therefore, you don't want to be left behind? It's kinda interesting being part of this revolution, but I don't feel great about it. The idea of redundancy is creeping in. In my job area, I know I'm safe for a fair while, but it is a touch demoralising to be suddenly aware of: "ok, so I'm writing a detailed prompt here, attaching the right files and then will proceed as necessary" and I think the culture around this (feel free to share your experiences btw) is a little unclear on "do I be upfront about the fact I got AI to do this?" or "do I tweak the comments in the code to make it look like me"? which I know is a cultural/varies by corporate/still an emerging sitch etc. Plus, we all want to keep ahead of our colleagues, so this AI-everywhere situation can force you into a bit of dishonesty/avoidance. One of my team has straight-faced/upfront said words to the effect of: "I don't use AI to do any of my work." Rant over, and honest disclaimer: NONE of this was written by AI. Thoughts and comments welcome, ideally no insults. Peace out.✌️ submitted by /u/alwinaldane [link] [comments]