Slang & Culture
Rework
In an AI context, the time and effort spent redoing or correcting AI-generated output to make it accurate and usable. A study by Workday found that roughly 37% of the time saved by AI is lost to rework.
Origin · no single documented coiner
A general business term for fixing defective work, revived to describe the human effort required to audit and fix low-quality or hallucinated AI output. No single documented coiner for the AI-specific usage.