Do you prefer to work alone or to work in a group? Be it in-office or remote. Guided works should not be included as it involves at least 2 people.
And also on an interesting note, how much AI has replaced your work buddy?
I work alone building stuff, because I like doing it my way without compromises.
If you work with others, the result is influenced by wanting to make everybody happy, so it becomes a mix of good and bad decisions, and average quality software.
You can totally tell when something was designed by committee. Lack of consistency in flow and purpose.
Group work is really nice when you’re working with intelligent, competent and reliable people. I have worked in amazing groups before and sometimes, I really miss it.
But I absolutely hate when I am forced to work on a project with unmotivated colleagues that do their bare minimum and use ChatGPT for everything. In my last job I was often fixing or doing their work, increasing my own workload.
At the moment, I am working alone and remote. I’m getting loads of shit done and I can finally breathe. Sometimes I wish I had at least one competent colleague again, though. But times are tough and good employees cost money…
There’s a saying:
If you want to go fast, go alone.
If you want to go far, go together.
I also have an amendment to that which is:
If you want to go neither fast, nor far, go with a toddler.
I don’t know, the number of problems I figured out quickly by describing the logic to a toddler…
I should give that one a shot!
Honestly it works. The act of vocalizing your thoughts sometimes gives you answers. Doesn’t need to be a toddler, the classic is a rubber duck I knew someone who had an action figure of iron man. He would tell people he struggled with a problem he would just ask Tony stark.
Quite the conundrum. I work better alone, but I want to go far.
Remote and alone. Fuck AI. I’m capable of working on large projects by myself, and if I’m in charge of dev and QA I can hold my work to my own high standards.
Alone. 0%.
Well Mr boss man ;)
Ai hasn’t done shit for me (engineering) . Its wrong and it lies. Waste of time for most things.
I enjoy working in groups as long as there isnt that one jock asshole trying to run it because he has a loud male voice and can talk over people. Fuck them.
With normal, smart people, I enjoy group work.
If it’s academic work and graded, alone; if it’s “work work” I’d rather do it with others cause I’m a yapper. 😅
And “AI” can’t really help with anything I do, really, and the things it could do for me I can just as easily do by myself (writing emails, for instance).
If it involves much creative vision, I prefer working alone. If it’s more grunt work, I’m happy to work in a group and at least get some time to socialize with colleagues out of it.
AI is just another tool in the box, never a substitute for an actual person.
Generally I prefer to work alone and in-office, with the option to socialize and collaborate if it’s desired. The answer is heavily dependent on the type of work involved and the ability of the group to cooperate and complete their respective portions correctly and on time. I seldom use AI at work or personally and only for results that I can quickly verify for accuracy on my own.
Depends on the project. Manual labor? Group 100% of the time. Intellectual labor? Alone the vast majority of the time.
I don’t use AI if I can help it.
