Is it? I’m spending my own money on 4 currently bottom tier AI subscriptions (fucking hell I’m not gonna pay 200€ a month for one sub) that I’m trying out and working on 3-4 projects in parallel. Lots of experimentation been done in my own time to get things working nicely too. I won’t say I deliver 3-4x as much work in the same time because obviously I don’t, I have to double check everything and with small things the AI is slower than I am… But even just 50% more work is 50% more money.
The alternative is going and saying “hey I want 50% more money per hour because I deliver 50% more work in the same timeframe now” and my employer telling me to pound sand because that puts me over what they charge for my work when they rent me out. Instead I bill them more and they bill their customers more and nobody needs to raise their rates.
This probably is a best case scenario for AI usage being a productivity boost, I’m not forced to use it (and often don’t), my employer/customer is okay with me billing extra hours IFF I’m getting things done in less time than reasonable estimates. Their customers still get the things done in the costs (hours) that they agreed to.
Well that is such a unique case. I’ve never heard any employer being okay with clocking hours that were not actually worked. And in your case it’s essentially just a raise with extra steps.
Is it? I’m spending my own money on 4 currently bottom tier AI subscriptions (fucking hell I’m not gonna pay 200€ a month for one sub) that I’m trying out and working on 3-4 projects in parallel. Lots of experimentation been done in my own time to get things working nicely too. I won’t say I deliver 3-4x as much work in the same time because obviously I don’t, I have to double check everything and with small things the AI is slower than I am… But even just 50% more work is 50% more money.
The alternative is going and saying “hey I want 50% more money per hour because I deliver 50% more work in the same timeframe now” and my employer telling me to pound sand because that puts me over what they charge for my work when they rent me out. Instead I bill them more and they bill their customers more and nobody needs to raise their rates.
This probably is a best case scenario for AI usage being a productivity boost, I’m not forced to use it (and often don’t), my employer/customer is okay with me billing extra hours IFF I’m getting things done in less time than reasonable estimates. Their customers still get the things done in the costs (hours) that they agreed to.
Well that is such a unique case. I’ve never heard any employer being okay with clocking hours that were not actually worked. And in your case it’s essentially just a raise with extra steps.