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>Currently in testing with select commercial customers…
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A couple of years ago I was on a walk with my wife and she asked me “what’s the point of Siri? it can hardly do anything useful outside weather and timers.” I told her a tall tale of how these things are essentially going to become our personal assistants in the future, they’ll know about our unique situations and can act accordingly. Just like the rich and powerful have people who specialise in organising their live…
Really. I used chatGPT quite a few times to summarize corporate spam emails to me. So this now makes things deliciously ironic: 1. BS Manager jolts down a few lines then AI outputs pompous bullshit from the raw bullshit she wrote. 2. I get the bullshit email and then use AI to distill the bullshit down to the essential bullshit
I really wish I can just send mail with bulletpoints without all the formality stuff and walk around the egg shells. But alas, that's the way it is. Reminds me the custom in Japan working culture. There are so many unspoken rules you are expected to follow and it became hinderance.
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I am a DevRel so I work on the business side of the company but my intended readers are developers. Even though I was a skeptic at first, now I am a believer in practical usage of AI. I really struggle with writing CTAs or conclusive remarks. My writing style is dry and I write technical articles in a step by step manner assuming the reader has no to little understanding of the subject matter. I feel like developer d…
Writing can be improved. If your position requires better writing try to improve it, not replace your lack of skills with an AI. Using a AI is the same as to pay someone else on Fiverr to write the emails for you.
Of these, the AI equipped sheets is the one I'm most excited about. Being able to quickly see insights by just saying things like, "what's the average % change of all my stocks from FY 2022-FY2023?" is going to be such a superpower.
If it gets to write those damn SQL queries for us, now that is a big leap for humanity.
CoPilot integration in Excel seems to be really useful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-waFp6rLc0 I wonder with this what would happen to BI industry, particularly to BI/Analytics startups like ThoughtSpot ( "ThoughtSpot is the AI-Powered Analytics platform that empowers everyone to ask any data questions in natural language" )
I think the biggest challenge will be teaching people how to use this new system to the fullest
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> " destroying a lot of the IDE/editor ecosystem " How is Microsoft releasing VS Code "destroying the editor ecosystem" but releasing Vim for free isn't and JetBrains charging for their IDEs isn't? This isn't "EEE" this is whining that Microsoft is competing by making software people want and that's unfair, apparently. > " just to eventually remove the important bits into non-free plugins, making the free version of…
I consider the MS Language Servers pretty much the most important bit of vscodes IDE functionality as it provides autocompletion, lookup, refactoring etc, which is the feature i was specifically thinking of here. They were originally all open source, but aren't anymore. they're still free (as in beer), but their licence only allows usage with the official visual studio code distribution
The inconvenient answer: want another C# extension? Tough luck, write it yourself. This is essentially what LLVM did for C/C++ linting, and produced Clangd, and many people now consider it to be superior to the Microsoft C/C++ linter.
Hurrah! Now we can enter 3 bullet points, have an AI automatically turn them into 3 pages of waffle, and then copilot can automatically summarise those back into bullet points again.
And my mailbox will be full of 10 pages auto-generated memos. Progress.
"They feed us poison / So we take their 'cures' / While they suppress our medicine." /s
My first thought is, "gross"... now we'll have to wonder whether Manager X is even paying attention to the emails they're reading and responding to, or doing any actual work or thinking. Could lead to a world that's even more tilted towards politics and socially engineering your way up the ladder, versus competence and skill.
I was thinking about this last night. The new AI tools are like performance enhancing drugs in sports. Especially in bodybuilding, there was a really painful transition from the world of non-PEDs to PEDs. They solved that by going to natural and non-natural competitions. Other sports didn’t handle it so well (baseball, cycling, etc) Just as people were asking “did Lance / Sammy / Barry / Arnold really do that incredi…