[awinter-py]

can you say more about this? what do you mean when you say 'more tools' is not the same as 'valuable outputs'

[lumost]

There are a thousand "nuisance" problems which matter to me and me alone. AI allows me to bang these out faster, and put nice UIs on it. When I'm making an internal tool - there really is no reason not to put a high quality UX on top. The high quality UX, or existence of a tool that only I use does not mean my value went up - just that I can do work that my boss would otherwise tell me not to do.

[chii]

personal increase in satisfaction (such as "work that my boss would otherwise tell me not to do") is valuable - even if only to you.

The fact is, value is produced when something can be produced at a fraction of the resources required previously, as long as the cost is borne by the person receiving the end result.

[elliotto]

Under this definition, could any tool at all be considered to produce more value?

[colecut]

Do using the tools increase ROI?