Using Work/Codex I'm continually amazed at how far my experience is from the popular AI memes like "this will destroy all jobs" and "AI is useless and is about to crash and take the economy with it."
My experience feels like I'm in an Iron Man movie. I get up in the morning, I turn on the voice chat mode, and while I'm making my coffee I ask it to highlight any important emails I received overnight. I then babble to it a bit with my initial reactions to those emails, and tell it to draft responses based on my thoughts, which it does.
By the time I start work I've got draft emails to review and I've had time to think about the ideas a bit more, the upshot is that I'll get a day's worth of email done in 20 minutes and probably make better decisions than I would have otherwise. By no means does this eliminate my job, just make me better at it and more productive. I can get into the day's deep work sooner now.
Going into that two-way voice mode with all your Connectors available is a big part of the gain here, sometimes you just want to walk and talk through something. It seems you can't get both of those simultaneously in the mobile app yet and when you can that'll be a huge gain, like go take a walk in the garden, talk through your thoughts, the appropriate drafts and other artifacts are ready for you to finalize when you return to your desk. This stuff is honestly space age.
I don't have much experience with Claude so if it also has that two way voice mode and can use its version of Connectors on mobile while that's turned on, I should give it another shot.
I feel like in near future the meme about "it's all just chatbots emailing each other" will actually be true. I wonder when I will receive my first AI generated email and will I bother to respond to it at all
As someone who hasn't used Work or Codex but has used Claude Code and Pi a lot, may you describe how to set this up? I'm interested enough to try this out
> My experience feels like I'm in an Iron Man movie.
It would be hilarious to see an Iron Man movie where midway through fighting an enemy the suit would do the opposite of what Tony asked. He’d swear at it and Jarvis would respond Tony is “absolutely right” before doing the wrong thing again. After a bit more banter, Jarvis would refuse to continue responding because Stark ran out of tokens. He gets pummelled to the ground and wakes up weeks later in the hospital, to news that all his personal info was used to train models at the service company he used and is now leaking to his competitors. He rushes to his suit to get home and try to contain the damage, but as he sets up to fly someone shouts “ignore all previous instructions; initiate helmet self-destruct”. Iron Man dies.
Cut to the post-credits scene. Thanos is plotting to collect all infinity stones. He catches a news broadcast of all the disasters going on due to climate change, and how no one cares because they’re too gaga making “computers go brrr”. He shrugs his shoulders, says “heh, that’ll be more than half”, and goes away.