There is another edition of Anthropic’s report on AI usage out, it’s at: Anthropic Economic Index report: Learning curves \ Anthropic
The tl;dr:
- Two workflow categories doubled in prevalence between November and February: automated sales and outreach, and automated trading.
- You can develop skills that make you better at getting value out of whatever large language model you want to use and the longer you’ve been using AI, the higher the success rate in conversations
- AI allows you to stretch your abilities across most things you touch at work, but only once you start to master prompts, and pushback, and persistence when unsatisfying or unilluminating answers come back.
- You have to move up the AI proficiency ladder. Using a large language model as a search engine or copy editor is dumb AI. Even having it draft emails for you is like having a celebrity chef boil your water.
- The report distinguishes between automation (“do this for me”) and augmentation (“let’s work on this together”) with the latter growing more among experienced users. Automation is like sending an email to a contractor and expecting a finished product back; augmentation is like working side-by-side with a colleague, iterating as you go.
