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A senior AI researcher reportedly said that AI saves him about four to eight hours per week in familiar domains, where its assistance resembles more intensive autocomplete.

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“And he said, in domains which I understand well and it's closer to autocomplete but more intense,”
“there it's maybe saving me four to eight hours a week.”
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