Those would be useful for dealing with recruiters. not so much people whom I'd actually like to get coffee with.
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#22My problem with this is that it contributes to the broken culture of email. – Wanna go for coffee? – January is busy. After? is a completely fine exchange. Adding a wall of text to convey the same information does not help anyone.
You’re right. Secondary point, if you can’t make time to have coffee for someone for an entire month, it probably isn’t important enough to do, ever.
That's just not true. You shouldn't take offense to this at all. People have busy schedules.
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#23My problem with this is that it contributes to the broken culture of email. – Wanna go for coffee? – January is busy. After? is a completely fine exchange. Adding a wall of text to convey the same information does not help anyone.
Yeah I'm excited about the possibilities of AI as the next HN-er, but this thing is dystopian as hell IMHO.
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#24My problem with this is that it contributes to the broken culture of email. – Wanna go for coffee? – January is busy. After? is a completely fine exchange. Adding a wall of text to convey the same information does not help anyone.
Yeah I'm excited about the possibilities of AI as the next HN-er, but this thing is dystopian as hell IMHO.
dystopian would be if the receiving party is also using a LLM to summarize their emails.
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#25My problem with this is that it contributes to the broken culture of email. – Wanna go for coffee? – January is busy. After? is a completely fine exchange. Adding a wall of text to convey the same information does not help anyone.
Ironically, based on my experience working in consulting and with exec level folks, what most people need is something that turns long meandering emails into text like your example
Good emails are short and give only the most relevant info and "ask" of the recipient. Most emails people send get ignored or misunderstood because they expect too much from the recipient, who, unless it's a major priority, doesn't have the time to try and figure out what they're supposed to do from the email.
I expect this kind of thing will never get traction in most business applications, but an email shortener, definitely.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
100%, it just contributes to the digital landfill that is our inboxes. Good emails should be written like pseudo code, I suspect this will happen or emails will finally die for something that provides this type of capability of exchanging information in order to facilitate decision making.
Personally, I switched to voice messages (via WhatsApp or Slack). It doesn't work for everything, but... if I know this will take me more than a minute to type, it is going to be a voice message. If it requires visual aid – Loom. The only problem with audio/Loom messages is that it is not easily indexable, but that's a tooling problem that can be easily solved. I rarely use email (I may ask someone to compose an emai…
> if I know this will take me more than a minute to type, it is going to be a voice message.
I'm glad you and I do not try to correspond!
Re: EmailTriager
#27My problem with this is that it contributes to the broken culture of email. – Wanna go for coffee? – January is busy. After? is a completely fine exchange. Adding a wall of text to convey the same information does not help anyone.
Ironically, based on my experience working in consulting and with exec level folks, what most people need is something that turns long meandering emails into text like your example Good emails are short and give only the most relevant info and "ask" of the recipient. Most emails people send get ignored or misunderstood because they expect too much from the recipient, who, unless it's a major priority, doesn't have th…
yup.
I am just not going to read your long email.
As a rule of thumb, 90% of emails essence is contained in the second from last sentence in the email (usually an ask; don't believe me, just check your inbox). If it is a long email, that's the only part I am going to read.
Re: EmailTriager
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
You’re right. Secondary point, if you can’t make time to have coffee for someone for an entire month, it probably isn’t important enough to do, ever.
That's just not true. You shouldn't take offense to this at all. People have busy schedules.
I don’t think it is offensive.
I think it is that “next month” is probably an indication of importance and “next month” will be busy too / the importance of a message you want an AI to spam back… still not important.
Re: EmailTriager
#29My problem with this is that it contributes to the broken culture of email. – Wanna go for coffee? – January is busy. After? is a completely fine exchange. Adding a wall of text to convey the same information does not help anyone.
It is true that there is a risk of AI adding creating content that is unnecessarily verbose. This could end up consuming time and putting a higher cognitive load on the humans who ultimately read these emails.
On the other hand, these AI systems will only advance over time. It's certainly within the realm of possibility that these systems will be able to write with increased brevity. Additionally, much like current recommendation algorithms, they will likely adapt to specific needs and styles of a given user.
Whatever the case, we can expect many changes to the way we communicate in the coming years. You might even say it's a brave new world!
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#30After "sorry, that was the autocorrect", we will have "sorry, that was the AI's response"
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