I work under the assumption that the primary audience of everything I write at work is an AI. Managers will take what I send and have it summarized and evaluated by some chatbot or agent. (Of course, I cannot send them the summary myself.)
So like ATS checkers for resumes, I find myself needing an AI checker for my text.
Ultimately, we will have AI write everything for another AI to parse, which will be a massive waste of energy. If only there was some agreed-upon set of rules, structures, standards, and procedures to facilitate a more efficient communication...
If that is your manager, do so, sure. But make sure your manager is "such a manager".
If I was your manager, and you sent me your seventeen page AI generated thing coz you think I'm just gonna summarize anyway and I expect something long: You misread me.
I make a point all the time to everyone that won't listen, to not send me walls of text. I'm not gonna read them. I'm gonna ignore them, close your bug reports until I can understand them because you spent the time to make them short and legible. If you use AI for that, I don't care. But I better have something short and that when I read it makes actual sense and when I verify it, holds up. If I wanted to just ask AI, I'd do it myself. You have to "value add" to the AI if you want to be valuable yourself.
I agree. I send 2 sentence replies to most things my bosses boss sends me. He’s near retirement, dude doesn’t want me to send him a book. He knows the thinking under the work our team is doing is solid.
The only time I send something longer is if it’s a postmortem for some prod issue, which I write by hand.
I use AI every day, often multiple agents at once, but knowing when it’s appropriate and when I need to be the one thinking really hard about something.
I go through this with my vendor budgets and contract negotiations right now. We are encouraged to put all their proposals in AI and have it refute each point. I know for a fact they are putting my negotiations in their own AI and having it counter-propose my points. It's an arms race of my AI fighting against their AI. Where does it end.
This is the focus of my new startup, which uses a single-layer model to transform bullet points into bullet points. Please invest in IdentityMatrixLLM, LLC, etc.
I have a hard time trying to find any reasons for the S̶k̶y̶n̶e̶t̶ owners of the Skynet not to get rid of that walking bipedal inefficiency called human.
Was this a script using the API or something you asked Gemini CLI to do? I burn through Gemini CLI and Antigravity daily quotas in 2 hours on the $20 plan (AI Pro). Or maybe you used an older flash model?
I am asking because I am very frustrated with the new quotas and I am hoping to get more mileage out of my subscription.
I am a pretty peaceful person, but working with agents frequently (daily) makes me furious. I wonder if the context switching you mentioned leads to more fatigue, which makes me much more irritable.
I quickly grokked the product and pricing from Exe's website. You need a page with less text, less scrolling and more specifics. Can VMs not autostop? Will an API call to a service on a stopped VM fail at the first attempt? Your pricing formula is simple but I don't want to do the math on my phone. How do payments work exactly (processor)?
Running Shellbox 24/7 is ~25% cheaper than Exe, with 2x storage but 50% of RAM. Exe seems to provide additional features (which I don't need). Not presenting this information upfront and in an easily digestible format makes me suspicious.
I dig the overall aesthetic and may give Shellbox v2 a try.
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