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Not bad, so instead of having people spend time making powerpoints and then give presentations while everyone else pretends to listen, now the presenter can auto generate it while everyone else pretends to have clicked the link. This is a more efficient way to waste time, it might actually succeed in many companies (until Google kills it anyway).
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Loom is one of the best tools for remote work. If this is free and in Google Docs, I won't need Loom anymore. Loom should be terrified. This will probably also be added to YouTube, so CapCut and the like are about to be checkmated too. The biggest worry for this product is that it's from Google and we know how they are about products.
There is an associated problem we've seen in screencasting For every minute of screentime, there is time requirement for writing, practicing, filming, editing, fixing bad takes, etc. While I can whip up a presentation quickly, videos take quite a bit more. The pros make it look easy, but it isn't
There is an associated problem we've seen in screencasting For every minute of screentime, there is time requirement for writing, practicing, filming, editing, fixing bad takes, etc. While I can whip up a presentation quickly, videos take quite a bit more. The pros make it look easy, but it isn't
I feel the opposite though for lots of internal communication. I often see so much time that (to me) feels wasted when employees do tons of "polish" for slide decks for internal teams. Like you're just communicating to other employees, the goal is just to get the information across, not make it a work of art. With a video I can quickly just say what needs to be communicated, but then with some highlighted bullets (wh…
My prediction on this: people will create videos, people will stop attending meeting because "I'll just watch the video offline", people will get crunched and not watch the videos before finally re-scheduling meetings where the authors will step-by-step in the videos and present the content as we used to do with slides.
Before any of that happens it will be renamed and branded so somebody can get promoted, closely followed with canceled to make way for the next big thing.
Hacker News, April 2028: Google discontinues support for Vids, an experimental collaboration tool
I think a good way to address the crisis of credibility Google has with their commitment to their own products is to just make articulated timelines of support something considered as fundamental as the code base itself.
It could admittedly be perceived of as a negative, because a "cliff" could approach. But the flip side is that we are where we are in the absence of credible commitments, and I think the present status quo is worse.
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You can treat it as recording a YouTube video
I prefer to treat it like a small club standup session. These meetings are how you figure out what to put in the youtube video or other documentation. Audience questions are vital.
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This is not the point of meetings though. Meetings are for Aligning Stakeholders or Collaborating Across Teams at least in my world. Do you regularly attend meetings to be an audience member?
Most companies I've worked at have had some form of that, yes.
I’m pretty sure everyone’s just using LLMs to write those now, and nothing of value was lost versus ten plus hours of actual human labor, since nobody reads them.
[edit] I mean internal corporate newsletters. “What department X is doing!” OMG nobody cares unless they’re just reading it out of sheer boredom as a plausibly-work-related distraction during avoidance of doing actual work.