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Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

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Post by siva7 »

yencabulator wrote: post #159
zamnos wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fortunately for middle and line managers, the vaunted 1:1 hasn't been automated yet, nor does it scale, so the technology doesn't allow managers to have more than, say, 60 direct report effectively. Meeting with each of them for 1 hour every other week only leaves 20 hours every other week for work that isn't a 1:1. I think middle management will be safe for a little while longer.

Just wait until employees are told to do their 1:1 with a chatbot...

Pshht, don't feed them with more such ideas.

Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

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Post by siva7 »

bleuchase wrote: post #158
indymike wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 1on1’s are for the manager like server metrics are for the SRE. I'm not sure that is accurate. As a manager, I have a bunch of production metrics on my people. I can tell who's getting work done, who isn't, who has high defect rates in their work, who makes fewer defects, who is positive ROI, and who is not paying their keep. Where the one on ones are useful is when they are informed by the metrics, and those conve…

If you’re only talking to your directs for 10-15 minutes every two weeks you are neglecting your duties as a manager. The standard is 30 minutes 1x week with every direct report.

Maybe the idealised standard but certainly not what is going on at most companies

Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

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Post by dna_polymerase »

Yeah cool, I need to write Serial letters using my own fonts. Can't do that with Google Workspace. As an enterprise customer, that is. I have no idea who leads product at Google but they need to get their shit together. I don't need some ChatGPT BS to write my mails for me.

Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

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Post by siva7 »

neap24 wrote: post #68
shapefrog wrote: post #11

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Are you a new employee? Not sure how to reply to your welcome email your Manager sent? Workspace saves you the time and effort involved in writing that first welcome reply email.

Are you a manager whose new hire just sent a reply to your AI generated welcome email? Don’t have time to read it? Workspace auto-hides the text and just shows you a simple three-word summary.

You're joking but we all know here too well that exactly this will happen.

Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

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Post by bpicolo »

elicash wrote: post #27
jon-wood wrote: post #4

> So if you’re a manager onboarding a new employee, Workspace saves you the time and effort involved in writing that first welcome email. If you really can't be bothered to write the welcome email maybe just don't, rather than throwing some ML generated drivel as the first impression a new hire gets of your management. The direction this is going in is so focused on automating away the hassle of email, with the end s…

Can we not pretend people weren't already googling sample emails for this? It's just more efficient now to grab the same starter email that you then customize. Admittedly, google shouldn't be pretending otherwise, either. But what they also did was make it so you can get the starter email without having to see their ads. Edited to add: I think a better argument on this could he made about the "draft a thank you note…

I don't really want to read (or "write") a bunch of impersonal junk written by AI.

Can we skip this phase of technology?

Edit: Maybe this will inspire the next wave of tech burnouts turned mushroom farmers

Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

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Post by monkeynotes »

elicash wrote: post #27
jon-wood wrote: post #4

> So if you’re a manager onboarding a new employee, Workspace saves you the time and effort involved in writing that first welcome email. If you really can't be bothered to write the welcome email maybe just don't, rather than throwing some ML generated drivel as the first impression a new hire gets of your management. The direction this is going in is so focused on automating away the hassle of email, with the end s…

Can we not pretend people weren't already googling sample emails for this? It's just more efficient now to grab the same starter email that you then customize. Admittedly, google shouldn't be pretending otherwise, either. But what they also did was make it so you can get the starter email without having to see their ads. Edited to add: I think a better argument on this could he made about the "draft a thank you note…

Simple answer to this: "Hi, I am company X's AI, I'd like to get to know you because we will be working together here and there ."

Basically endource the AI and be clear that it is the thing welcoming you. If you hide the fact an AI is pumping out an automated email it just comes across as if the business thinks of you as a drone.

Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

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Post by monkeynotes »

bpicolo wrote: post #177
elicash wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can we not pretend people weren't already googling sample emails for this? It's just more efficient now to grab the same starter email that you then customize. Admittedly, google shouldn't be pretending otherwise, either. But what they also did was make it so you can get the starter email without having to see their ads. Edited to add: I think a better argument on this could he made about the "draft a thank you note…

I don't really want to read (or "write") a bunch of impersonal junk written by AI. Can we skip this phase of technology? Edit: Maybe this will inspire the next wave of tech burnouts turned mushroom farmers

Piles of impersonal junk created by humans at work. People lope through life, especially work life, a lot. If you are doing repetitive welcome emails they are almost guaranteed to be impersonal, I don't think anyone could rinse and repeat personalized emails for hundreds of people without burning out.

Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

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Post by laurentlb »

bpicolo wrote: post #177
elicash wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can we not pretend people weren't already googling sample emails for this? It's just more efficient now to grab the same starter email that you then customize. Admittedly, google shouldn't be pretending otherwise, either. But what they also did was make it so you can get the starter email without having to see their ads. Edited to add: I think a better argument on this could he made about the "draft a thank you note…

I don't really want to read (or "write") a bunch of impersonal junk written by AI. Can we skip this phase of technology? Edit: Maybe this will inspire the next wave of tech burnouts turned mushroom farmers

Well, they also develop AI to summarize the AI-generated text... So we'll end up with this:

Person A: write a thank you note to the team

AI: [long text]

Person B: summarize the text

AI: Person A says thank you.

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