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- By the end of 2026, how useful do you think agentic/multi-agent AI systems will actually be in your daily work or personal projects? Posted on March 11th, 2026 | 13703 votes
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- By the end of 2026, how useful do you think agentic/multi-agent AI systems will actually be in your daily work or personal projects? Posted on March 11th, 2026 | 40 comments
School... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:School... (Score:5, Funny)
I'm the only one in the computer lab who reads Slashdot. : /
It's slash-dot, not colon-slash!Re: (Score:3, Funny)
If this were windows (Score:3, Funny)
Re:School... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:School... (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, those proctologists have a pretty weird sense of humor. I mean, they're running SlashCode and all, but their section headers are awful:
Re:School... (Score:5, Funny)
You "just checked"? Riiiiight.
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Office Space (Score:5, Funny)
Bob Porter: Da-uh? Space out
Peter Gibbons: Yeah, I just stare at my desk; but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch, too. I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.
this is so true
Re:Office Space (Score:5, Insightful)
There's a common rule among people who bill their time out hourly that you can only hope for about 6 billable hours per day. People who work in offices are often astonished by this. "My boss would go berserk if I only worked 6 hours a day!" They never stop to realize how much time they spend not doing productive work. If you condense it, I wouldn't be surprised to find that most office employees don't work more than about 4 hours. The rest is used up in pointless meetings, BSing at the coffee station, checking eBay, and forwarding goofy emails.
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I get more actual work done in 10 hours then I ever did in the private sector.
I work 4 10s, and it is not unusual for me to spend 7-9 hours a day coding.
I had always been told Government employees didn't do anything, now I feel cheated!
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Glad to hear you're on the U.S. gov't pay
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Re:Office Space (Score:5, Funny)
And if it wasn't for fine folk like you, the rest of the employees couldn't afford to take 15 hour lunches. Bravo, good sir.
Re:Office Space (Score:5, Funny)
I get more actual work done in 10 hours then I ever did in the private sector.
I work 4 10s, and it is not unusual for me to spend 7-9 hours a day coding.
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I'm guessing you are in city/state govt.?
The Feds have pretty much mandated all the govvies out of coding, and only there for oversight of the contractors that do that coding....at least that's been my experience over the past 9 years...
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Oh, and Craigslist is my eBay. Stupid Websense...
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"Yeah, most of the week was spent itemizing expense reports..."
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"hmmm..this guy's right...though probably overestimating by a couple of hours....OOOH I HAVEN'T BEEN TO EBAY YET"
Re:Office Space (Score:4, Interesting)
As to billing out time, it depends on a lot of factors. One of the toughest places for this is being a first-year associate at a large law firm, where you can expect about half of your time at the office to be billable, on a good day, and are generally required to bill out on the order of 2200-2400 hours per year. That comes out to 6 to 6-1/2 hours per day if you work 365 days of the year. In other words, you're in the office 12-13 hours a day, 7 days a week, until you can manage to make better use of your time (which may not be possible when you are new and learning the ropes).
Other fields certainly have similarly bad hazing periods, but that's just the canonical example. But my favorite thought on working not enough hours is from Christopher Walken's 'Census' skit from SNL [zippyvideos.com], where he considers 40 hours to be working "only part of the time" because "there are huge chunks of time at night where [he's] just asleep.
Re:Office Space (Score:5, Interesting)
Then again, I worked for a law firm in the 80's that would routinely bill multiple clients for the same work.
Some of the partners would sit in on City Council meetings and such and bill the same hour of time to eight or nine different clients.
It was common for some of the lawyers in the firm to bill 20 or more hours in an 8 hour day.
-l
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Re:Office Space (Score:5, Funny)
if you spend 10 minutes reading a single joke email, I'd wonder how you got hired, being borderline illiterate and all..
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Yeah. Here's mine: "If you want to make your numbers look significant, multiply by 10."
Seriously, who spends 10 minutes reading a joke email? I typically read a page of a typical paperback in a minute. So that's one long joke. Then 5 minutes to decide who to respond to? Absurd.
What takes a long time is posting to Slashdot. Internet forums are the bane of my productivity, but also my lifelinen to sanity.
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And it's scary too... No surprise that we get all those strange and more or less fatal bugs [worsethanfailure.com]. People sitting in their cubicles doing their part without really having the whole picture allows for a lot of people to just simulate work and cause extended cost. Actually - the worst people isn't those who don't do anything at all, but those who do the completely wrong things.
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Missing Option: On the toilet (Score:5, Funny)
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Parent is NOT Offtopic! (Score:3, Funny)
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I mean, how could
It's a crime, I tell you.
Be that as it may...
At home, I keep in the bathroom a stack of a music and film magazine from Britain, called Uncut.
At my mom's home, I must (ahem) make do with People magazine.
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Err...if that is your definition of a 'real city'...then I guess we only have about 3 of those in the US??
Seriously...most cities in the US have no train for mass transit...nor can you depend on riding a bus. Just not practical for most cities.
I guess you woul
missing option (Score:4, Funny)
Re:missing option (Score:4, Funny)
I'm a slashdotter and I'm alright
I work all day and I post all night.
I cut down trolls, I eat my lunch, I go to the lavatory.
On Wednesdays I go shopping, and have buttered scones for tea.
Re:missing option (Score:4, Funny)
he's a slashdotter, he's alright, he's works all day and he posts all night.
I cut down trolls, I post and mod, I like to read the articles, I switch on my computer, and boot right into Windows.
he's a slashdotter, he's alright, he's works all day and he posts all night.
I cut down trolls, I love Bill Gates, I'm upgrading to Vista. I wish I'd been a softie, just like my dear Ballmer.
Oh laejoh, and I thought you were so l33t!
Another missing option... (Score:5, Funny)
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Missing Option: I am my own Boss ... (Score:3, Funny)
Post during breakfast... (Score:5, Funny)
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Missing option (Score:2)
Re:Missing option (Score:5, Funny)
A missing option? (Score:4, Insightful)
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All of the above? (Score:5, Funny)
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At work... (Score:5, Interesting)
While eating breakfast (78)
On my lunch break (113)
During work, my boss doesn't know (181)
During work, my boss doesn't care (443)
After work (46)
Late at night (93)
Whenever CowboyNeal posts a story (82)
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But keep up the good work, sticking it to 'em and all.
In Soviet Russia... (Score:2)
wait a minute... that works...
nevermind...
At work, because my boss expects me to (Score:5, Interesting)
I'm expected to keep on top of things, and Slashdot, for all its faults, is a good source of news.
...laura
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Who Is This Laura Person Anyway? (Score:5, Funny)
Preceeded by:
Where Laura Went Wrong
Some More of Laura's Greatest Mistakes
Followed by:
Well That About Wraps It Up for Laura
...laura, endlessly fascinated by the weird attitudes on Slashdot
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Bah screw you guys... it's obviously a female!
What is this mysterious "female" of which you speak? I hope it's some sort of new lossless VOIP protocol. Or maybe a spaceship. That'd really make my evening!
Lately the polls have been.. lacking (Score:2, Insightful)
But the past couple of polls have just sucked. Pure and simple.
Come on
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i agree and i submitted a more interesting one, imho, than this two weeks ago that doesn't show up on the search... even software comment counting metrics are more exciting than this... i didn't look at the poll results i went straight to the comments. i'm now sure CN has been abducted by aliens.
At Work - In Job Description Now (Score:5, Interesting)
Now about commenting and contributing... I am not sure what their stance on it is, but I have a strong feeling they will never have a stance
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After my lunch break (Score:2)
I also will hit "the dot" in the morning when I get in.
In soviet russia..... (Score:2, Funny)
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I chose During work, my boss doesn't care but (Score:5, Insightful)
Ever since I saw csszengarden.com posted here and then revamped how we do html and css (leading to much savings and rejoicing), keeping up on new trends and developing ideas is an essential part of my job.
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It was a lot more useful back in 2002-2003 then now.
I'm not sure where it went wrong, but today's Slashdot is a lot less informative then it was a few years ago. Back then, at least half of the front page contained articles that were informative in nature. Now, I'm lucky if I find 3+ articles on the
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There has been a trending towards more politicised articles, but the net isn't just for nerds anymore, and some of the issues (net neutrality, DoJ wiretapping, RIAA & MPAA vs. "The People", SCO tactics getting more extreme, Jack Thompson's antics, etc...) cut near and dear to the Roddenberry-inspired tehcno-utopia many of us grew up believing in.
Mobile Access (Score:2, Interesting)
5 seconds of down time (Score:2)
Effectively, I might have 8 front page views per day when I get a second to catch my thoughts.
I showed my boss the poll (Score:3, Insightful)
Missing Option. (Score:2)
Missing option: (Score:2)
Missing Option? (Score:2)
Missing options: (Score:2)
Well, thinking about it none of them seem glorious, but I know at least one of the is true...
During work; I am the boss (Score:2)
For the self-employed:
During work; I am the boss.
(Note: Since I am the boss, I'm working during breakfast, lunch and dinner. "After work" just means working from a different location. "Late at night" is still a good time to be working, regardless of location. It's rumored that I have a wife and kids somewhere
During work of course... (Score:2)
My slashdot habit (Score:3, Interesting)
I've read slashdot everyday, without missing a single article and without missing a single day, since sometime in 1997. During times I was overseas, indesposed or just without a computer, I have managed to "catch-up" via the archives.
However, I never have been able to get a story submission accepted. Them's the breaks I guess.
I read it for the articles... (Score:2)
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My way: (Score:3, Funny)
I read my lunch whilst eating /.
While compiling Gentoo (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I can't write (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I don't (Score:2)
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Re:Missing option (Score:5, Funny)
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Which isn't to say the "dupe" problem doesn't exist...
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Re:Missing options ? (Score:5, Funny)
I read
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I can only perform while reading
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Her: I for one welcome my new condom-wearing overlord.
You: Yes! Yes! I'm not wearing a condom, you insensitive clod!
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Re:Missing options ? (Score:5, Funny)
Ew. (Score:2)
Re:Missing options ? (Score:5, Funny)
Is that some kind of soft drink? or alternative to coffee?
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Only loosely - in that you can either be drinking coffee or having sex, but not both at the same time.
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That is, at least, a double entendre.
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Kicking it up a notch? (Score:3, Funny)