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Comment by energy123

3 days ago

It almost can't be a good thing. LLMs are only useful when given all the relevant context. When you write an email, the context is mostly in your head.

It isn't, though; it's in all the meetings that happened beforehand and all the documents around them.

The biggest productivity boost I ever managed was using Whisper to convert meetings to text and then a big model to summarize what happened.

Then I can chat with the docs and meetings about who decided what, when, and why. It's a superpower that I could only implement because I'm in the C-suite and could tell everyone else to get bent if they didn't like it—and gave babysitters to the rest of the C-suite.

Having visibility and ownership for decisions is a huge deal when everyone has access to it.

  • What big model do/did you use?

    > gave babysitters to the rest of the C-suite

    What does that mean? That they got help, if they found the tech too complicated?

    > Having visibility and ownership for decisions is a huge deal

    Has this changed how people behave (yet)?

    • This was about a year ago so it was Claude 3 Opus for summaries and interrogation. Since then pretty much anything over 70b is good enough.

      And baby sit means hire something between a secretary developer that makes sure that important meetings had the record bot invited, gave it a once over and then went back to the 70% of their job that was actual development.