--- title: No, People Don’t Want More AI In Their Life — Smashing... description: Most companies assume users crave AI features, but data shows low adoption and retention. People resist AI that disrupts existing workflows, introduces... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/no-people-don-t-want-more-ai-in-their-life-smashing-magazine-iilbmt5lu twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: No, People Don’t Want More AI In Their Life — Smashing Magazine | daily.dev og:description: Most companies assume users crave AI features, but data shows low adoption and retention. People resist AI that disrupts existing workflows, introduces... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/no-people-don-t-want-more-ai-in-their-life-smashing-magazine-iilbmt5lu og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/iiLBmt5Lu.png og:image:alt: No, People Don’t Want More AI In Their Life — Smashing Magazine og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # No, People Don’t Want More AI In Their Life — Smashing Magazine **[Smashing Magazine](https://daily.dev/sources/smashing)** · 7 min read · 35 upvotes · 2 comments ## Summary Most companies assume users crave AI features, but data shows low adoption and retention. People resist AI that disrupts existing workflows, introduces unpredictability, or amplifies organizational dysfunction. What people actually want is AI that quietly automates tedious, repetitive tasks while staying deeply integrated into existing mental models — not AI-first products, but 'AI-second' tools that are subtle, reliable, and augment rather than replace human work. The piece argues that speed of delivery is not the value most users seek; they want reliability, predictability, and the ability to enjoy meaningful work. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@ahmetozel** · 6 upvotes > "AI-second" is the right frame, and the engineering reason underneath it is trust calibration. An assistant that's brilliant 85% of the time but fails unpredictably is often worse than none, because the user now has to verify every output — you've added a review step, not removed work. Reliability, not capability, is the adoption gate. > > > That's why the quiet, scoped automations win: when a feature does one narrow thing predictably, people learn where to trust it and stop checking. Open-ended "AI-first" assistants never earn that, because their failure surface is unbounded — you can't build a... **@phlisg** · 2 upvotes > Exactly that ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Users Don’t Need More Tools: They Need Seamless Integrations — Smashing Magazine](https://daily.dev/posts/users-don-t-need-more-tools-they-need-seamless-integrations-smashing-magazine-nt18g2eug) · Smashing Magazine · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [AI tools are everywhere, so why do most people still use them like it’s 2015?](https://daily.dev/posts/ai-tools-are-everywhere-so-why-do-most-people-still-use-them-like-it-s-2015--9bxd00thl) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Why Most AI Tools Fail After the Demo Stage](https://daily.dev/posts/why-most-ai-tools-fail-after-the-demo-stage-bhszbewpc) · Code Like A Girl · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Your people get AI. 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An assistant that’s brilliant 85% of the time but fails unpredictably is often worse than none, because the user now has to verify every output — you’ve added a review step, not removed work. Reliability, not capability, is the adoption gate.\nThat’s why the quiet, scoped automations win: when a feature does one narrow thing predictably, people learn where to trust it and stop checking. Open-ended “AI-first” assistants never earn that, because their failure surface is unbounded — you can’t build a stable mental model of something that might do anything. 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