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That you know of.
You’re the poster- do you live in the bay?
I do not. I live in fly-over country. I still see it happening.
I'm Begging You to Leave Your AI Note-Taker at Home
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Re: I'm Begging You to Leave Your AI Note-Taker at Home
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> what are you gonna do with all those notes? Dump them in Obsidian with an LLM agent bolted on. This note may never be consciously re-read, but it will become silent part of the context for conversations with the agent in the future. It is _ridiculous_ how useful this approach is. That pertains to work meetings, though. I would never bring a recorder to a coffee shop.
So useful how? Like what does this context actually end up doing for you?
Just some recent case studies.
1) A stakeholder voiced a wish 1 year ago that I forgot about because it was far fetched and not my area. It went to die in a transcript. Today the AI found and resurfaced it in a context where it was actionable and I was in a position to implement it. I did not ask AI to dig it out specifically, like I said, I did not even remember about it, but it just brought it up. Stakeholder ecstatic.
2) I was able to recreate a huge piece of enterprise architecture without access to docs - from 20 meeting transcripts of people just blathering about other topics. From bits and pieces - word here, sentence there - the AI pieced together the big picture for me. Unfeasible manually, especially because the LLM used its training data to infer things that I wouldn't be able to infer myself.
3) I was added to a project as a consulting/observing party, did not pay MUCH attention, but recorded meetings just in case. Suddenly, plans change, and I end up in charge of the project architecture. Nobody bothered to keep any serious records. I throw transcripts, along with emails and chats, into a context window, and I get an excellent self-onboarding doc. I am ready to talk to clients competently next morning.
4) a vendor is failing us, meeting after meeting they defer, delay, gaslight, pretend to forget or misunderstand or not to have heard what they'd been told. I need to escalate, boss asks "give me details to work with". I throw in the transcripts, and in 1 minute I get the timeline of what was going on, with references. Re-tracing this manually would be hopeless.
5) I can talk to a person and ask their opinion virtually, by loading a corpus of meeting transcripts into AI and asking to pretend it's that person. Having 100k tokens of transcripts allows for a pretty high fidelity replica of that colleague!
Re: I'm Begging You to Leave Your AI Note-Taker at Home
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You think people in Austin or Denver or Atlanta don't have the same Zoom app, with the same AI helper as the one they give to San Francisco people?
I think they have the same app, but they don’t use it like this. It seems like you’re confident this happens a lot- do you live in San Francisco?
Yes! In the Ad Hominem district.