Has anyone found a way to work less on a week to week basis by leveraging agentic AI? Or is everyone still doing 80-90 hour weeks consistently?
Codex and Claude Code can really do most of the work for you if you design your agents intelligently.
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I work the same hours or more. My bosses and clients know we have AI, and require more and quicker. They have it themselves and now generate way more shit for us to check and parse through.
And no, AI can’t do my job if I just use agents better lmao. Fuck off with that.
Bro is mad he doesn’t know how to create good agents lol
My group literally has a full-time team of forward deployed analysts who were previously bankers doing nothing but creating agents for us. They work with a legit AI consulting firm based out of SF (not McKinsey or EY or some shit).
So, it’s not that I can’t create or use agents - it’s that agents can’t fucking do everything we do lol. The amount of mistakes I catch from AI is wack. Also, people and teams can create some much content (and slop) with AI that it creates more and more work and info to sift through.
I guess when AI can get on calls or meet in person with lenders and investment teams and clients and confidently have answers and responses to all of them then my hours will go down.
I’m not saying AI isn’t helpful because it saves me tons of time doing first passes on things, but overall it just creates more work for me in other areas and functions.
I’m cool to not hear from some back office Barclays virgin anymore, though.
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