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Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

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Post by amelius »

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…

It's not a problem as long as the sender reads the email and agrees with it before it is sent.

Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

#192

Post by gretch »

Workaccount2 wrote: post #106
topicseed wrote: post #12

This video published just now is incredible — https://youtu.be/6DaJVZBXETE Not sure though if it's mostly stuff that's being beta tested as we speak, or stuff that's not even built at all as of yet.

My view of the future has completely collapsed over the last 6mos-1year. I desperately don't want to live in a world where everything about everyone is fake and augmented. Where everything you look at and interact with is just AI generated or AI controlled. I can't see how AI isn't going to make the problem of falling social interaction 1000x worse.

I promise you, it's not that dramatic.

You can still walk down to the creamery and drink a milkshake. There are plenty of flesh and blood people there to talk to. The birds are chirping and it's a sunny day.

There are some bad/weird stuff happening on parts of social media, but you can literally just turn off your phone and go outside.

Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

#194

Post by adverbly »

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…

Seriously!

If the content of your email could have been generated using an AI trained on publicly available information, it necessarily must not include anything private.

Which means you are spam messaging your new hires with messages that contain zero actual information!

Noise is a word that does not even properly capture the uselessness of such communications. I swear, many humans seem to just want filler text to put places, and they just keep shoving it there.

Anyone read blindsight by Peter Watts? Spoiler alert: an entire science fiction book written around the fact that sending useless information to hyperintelligent beings could be interpreted as an intentional distraction and therefore a threat.

Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

#195

Post by barbazoo »

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…

True. I thought the same for the other example, writing a job description. I thought "WTF" now job postings are going to be even more useless.

Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

#197

Post by nyolfen »

noduerme wrote: post #29
topicseed wrote: post #12

This video published just now is incredible — https://youtu.be/6DaJVZBXETE Not sure though if it's mostly stuff that's being beta tested as we speak, or stuff that's not even built at all as of yet.

We're so fucked. Everyone will be AI spambots. You'll never know if you're talking to a human again.

just demand that they use a slur, this is the true voight-kampff

Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

#200

Post by indymike »

Swizec wrote: post #103
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…

Ok sure but there’s more to people than raw output numbers. Where do you get info on how they’re doing as people? Whether they’re pulling 12 hour days and that’s why the output looks good or they’re happy as a clam living their best life and that’s why output is great? Sometimes you gotta kick people to go take a vacation lest their mind/body takes an unplanned vacation for them. Even if the raw numbers are looking g…

I agree with you that there's more to people than numbers. But it's a lot easier to surface that when you have a frame of reference and some consistency in how you measure:

"so, last week you had a -23.5% contribution... You usually are on the positive side, so what's up?" and the employee tells me that their lead stuck them on a project where they hand no experience, and didn't have time to learn how to do x or y before getting thrown at a ticket... or, "I'm having some issues with ..."

Stuff as a manager you can sometimes help a lot with... and other times, well, you can be supportive. Just because numbers are involved does not mean we have to be cold and heartless... At the same time, I've found managing without numbers to just lead to cliqe-y political culture where people's ability to schmooze is rewarded more than their contribution to the team and that drives away the most effective contributors.

> And hey, if you don’t need a full hour, it’s okay to make 1on1s shorter!

Agree... I think I just realized that the exception should be a long 1 on 1. Just because I schedule 15 minutes doesn't preclude taking more time if there's something in the 1 on 1 that should take longer.

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