I'm curious how the 6 months have looked from a non-programmer's perspective. What kind of co-working tools and similar optimizations have people from other fields experienced?
I'm curious how the 6 months have looked from a non-programmer's perspective. What kind of co-working tools and similar optimizations have people from other fields experienced?
I am an instructor who helps deliver an apprenticeship. My new boss has been in our industry for about 20 years and is one of the most respected people in our company. They've just joined us to teach and are off doing a two week course. On the first day she was told to let AI write all of her lesson plans, and then feed the lesson plans to AI to make her slides...
Hopefully she rejects all this out of hand, but if she doesn't it'll mean that none of our trainees get the benefit of her experience, who she is as a person, and what she has to pass onto them.
We have 6 monthly reviews as instructors where we are told the same thing. "How could you use AI for your teaching?"
They don't even feel the need to justify why this would be desirable, or is needed at all. It's just pure bandwagonning. Unbelievably, most of my coworkers are extremely positive about AI, although none of them have told me they use it for anything besides preparing their lessons for them — they just use it instead of having to think, or spend time preparing...the only important thing they do at work.
It makes no sense to me.
I work at a company that deploys AI to enterprises
The average office worker is amazed at Copilot (not in the IDE - but the app bundled with Windows), and they mostly copy paste material into their enterprise provided ChatGPT / Gemini, and get tips from Facebook / Instagram on their top 5 best prompts for work productivity
Showing them agents that automate work at scale is a very magical experience
Claude in Office was a tipping point for nontechnical folks around me. Everyone’s slides decks are immaculate now. Finance isn’t needing nearly as much BI help. It’s pretty impressive.
Can I get Claude to view the slide decks for me so I don't waste my time?
Interesting. I don't have to use PowerPoint much, but I hate it when I do. I don't want the llm to write the words but I do want it to make things look nice. So does this work well now?
My pipeline for this is vscode + prompts + markdown templates + GitHub copilot -> markdown docs -> pandoc to produce.docx -> copilot in word for “nice” formatting -> copilot in ppt for nice decks. LLMs all the way down.
I find it’s easier to version control and diff the .md artefacts, those remain my authoritative source.
In business: using coworking tools to review and propose filing of emails; manage my files and folders; on a daily basis scour the intranet for interesting and relevant content.
Personal: my wife tutors in her native language to non-native primary and high school kids. They are all using these tools now generate fresh content for practice based on school lesson plans. The kids are improving much more quickly now than they were just a few months ago.
As someone who works somewhere where the intranet is a bit of a jungle: what tool do you use to scour the intranet?
Thanks!
Copilot Cowork in the M365 ecosystem. It inherits all the permissions from my account, has access to exchange to send me emails, and OneDrive to save each day’s summary for posterity and future refinement.
As a former data scientist, I started to use code agent 3 monthes ago. Before that, I use chat completion on web. Now, I nearly do everything which outputs documents with code agent.
Can you give a sanitized example or a hypothetical scenario of what you mean by “output documents with code agents”? Thanks.
My day job is not in the tech industry. I am an editor. Literally nothing has changed for me in the last four years.