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Working in a large organisation I’ve come to the conclusion that a little bit of inefficiency is good for the system. It’s impossible to work at 100% all the time and if an emergency happens it’s very useful to have that little bit extra to give. If you’re working at 100% all the time there’s no more to give.

This is true but there's also something to be said about understanding what you are building. The best tradesmen use modern tools, but still understand the principles of construction and can do things without them. Modern man is already so disenpowered. The average person could not build or even maintain the systems that make their lives possible. This is convenient and comfortable, but it comes with costs. Not saying a skilled person using AI to optimize menial tasks is bad. But many more will use it and never develop the skills they otherwise would have, leading to a decreased average skill level in a population. Maybe the benefits outweigh the costs. We are certainly going to find out!

The "wisely" bit is doing a lot of work there. Menial digital labor is the result of software and programming in general not having been used wisely. Probably because most software developers have no experience with anything in the rest of the real world and mostly do not care about the stuff they're building. AI is just making that worse so far.