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| 1 | +--- |
| 2 | +layout: post |
| 3 | +title: "Overheard from the Next Meeting Room: AI Is Everywhere Now" |
| 4 | +date: 2026-03-16 09:01:00 +0900 |
| 5 | +categories: [Life, Essay] |
| 6 | +tags: [AI, Workplace, Culture, Productivity] |
| 7 | +author: "Kevin Park" |
| 8 | +lang: en |
| 9 | +excerpt: "The conversations drifting from the meeting room next door have changed. AI isn't a novelty anymore — it's just how people work now." |
| 10 | +--- |
| 11 | + |
| 12 | +## What I Keep Overhearing |
| 13 | + |
| 14 | +Working at the office lately, I keep hearing snippets from the meeting room next door: |
| 15 | + |
| 16 | +"I asked ChatGPT to do it this way, and it came back like this..." |
| 17 | + |
| 18 | +"Oh, so Claude structured it that way..." |
| 19 | + |
| 20 | +"Did you try running it through Gemini? The results were a bit different." |
| 21 | + |
| 22 | +These conversations used to come only from the dev team. Now they're coming from planning, marketing, even operations. It's become constant background noise. |
| 23 | + |
| 24 | +## The Shift Isn't About Tools — It's About Attitude |
| 25 | + |
| 26 | +What's interesting is the change in attitude. |
| 27 | + |
| 28 | +A year or two ago, saying "I used AI" got one of two reactions: "Oh, cool!" or "Can you really trust it?" There was a sense that you were doing something special. |
| 29 | + |
| 30 | +Now it's just... normal. The expectation has flipped. People are starting to look at you funny if you *don't* use AI. Like the old days of "You're still doing that manually?" |
| 31 | + |
| 32 | +Saying "I had AI draft this" in a meeting is perfectly natural now. There used to be a subtle "isn't that cheating?" vibe — now it's just "that's efficient." |
| 33 | + |
| 34 | +## What's Actually Changed |
| 35 | + |
| 36 | +Workflows are genuinely different. |
| 37 | + |
| 38 | +People draft proposals with AI and refine them by hand. They run data analysis through AI and extract insights themselves. Code reviews include AI-generated feedback alongside human opinions. |
| 39 | + |
| 40 | +"AI-generated output" appearing on the meeting table has become routine. |
| 41 | + |
| 42 | +The amusing part is how people talk about AI as if it were a team member. "Claude suggested we do it this way" — spoken as casually as asking the person at the next desk. |
| 43 | + |
| 44 | +## The Awkward Parts |
| 45 | + |
| 46 | +Not everything is smooth. |
| 47 | + |
| 48 | +Some people treat AI output as gospel. "AI said this, so it must be right." That's dangerous. |
| 49 | + |
| 50 | +On the flip side, there's occasional policing: "Did you write this, or did AI?" Honestly, does it matter? If the output is good, it's good. |
| 51 | + |
| 52 | +The irony is that the people who use AI best are the ones who already know their domain deeply. AI is a tool, not a replacement. Domain expertise makes all the difference in AI output quality. |
| 53 | + |
| 54 | +## What Comes Next |
| 55 | + |
| 56 | +The meeting room chatter is shifting from "I told AI to do this" to "I worked on this with AI." It's a subtle change, but a meaningful one. |
| 57 | + |
| 58 | +Commanding vs. collaborating. Using a tool vs. working with a partner. That line is getting blurrier by the day. |
| 59 | + |
| 60 | +A year from now, we might hear "How did people even work without AI?" — the same way we now say "How did anyone work without the internet?" |
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