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User claims Claude AI boosts productivity, enabling 'pretend work'

A Reddit user shared that they are significantly ahead on their workload due to using Claude, an AI assistant. The user humorously suggested they are 'pretending to work' by spending time on Claude, but also noted that their company values ideas over output, mitigating concerns about being replaced by AI. AI

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User claims Claude AI boosts productivity, enabling 'pretend work'

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  1. r/ClaudeAI TIER_2 English(EN) · /u/g0Ids0undz ·

    Pretending to work today. I am months ahead on my workload thanks to Claude.

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>If I was working today, it would be just dicking around on Claude at the cost of the company. </p> <p>Am I doing my company a service by being lazy? Idk.. </p> <p>And FWIW my company makes money from ideas and not output, so I am not worried abou…