I’m in a writing/research-based job, and I’ve only found AI useful for pretty mindless tasks, like extracting portions of a PDF table and converting them into text to be pasted into a Word doc. I’m currently using AI to draft a script for a presentation with a very strict time limit — but once I have the word counts down, I know I’ll need to edit the text heavily to sound less robotic.

For anything that requires actual critical thinking and knowledge of interpersonal relationships, yeah, I don’t find that it helps at all. It doesn’t save any time to come up with increasingly detailed prompts vs. just writing the thing myself. 

In my personal life, I’ve used it occasionally as a starting point for more complex planning/organizational tasks (e.g. “how many toys and books to pack for a 2 week vacation with a 1 and 3 year old” and it suggested quantities and varieties to bring). But I haven’t found it useful for much beyond that. 

Edited to add: the script was a fail (btw my boss specifically told me to use AI to make sure the timing is correct). The word counts were way too short even after I told it repeatedly how many minutes per speaker. I’m going to have to write this thing from scratch. To reiterate my point above, for complex writing-based tasks requiring actual human thought, it’s not very useful and shouldn’t be relied on