The people who need AI most for busywork are the least likely to use it well
Visual-Basis3400 · reddit · 2026-09-18
A Reddit thread on the AI adoption gap. The poster keeps running into a counterintuitive pattern: people drowning in repetitive document and presentation work — those who'd benefit most — adopt these tools last, and use them at maybe 10% of their potential, while fluent, technical users already efficient get smaller marginal gains, so productivity gains land opposite to the "this helps everyone" story.
The barrier is no longer access — tools are cheap and everywhere — but the largely invisible skill of using them: knowing what to ask for, how to check it, when to throw it out — closer to delegating to a person than running a search. People who never practiced articulating a task get mediocre results and conclude the tool is overhyped. That skill gap looks more durable than the price one ever was. The thread also collects what actually worked for getting less-technical colleagues to adopt AI.
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