Comment by throwaway2037
14 hours ago
I cannot remember which blogging platform shows you the "most highlighted phrase", but this would be mine:
> The email I'd have written is actually shorter than the original prompt, which means I spent more time asking Gemini for help than I would have if I'd just written the draft myself. Remarkably, the Gmail team has shipped a product that perfectly captures the experience of managing an underperforming employee.
This paragraph makes me think of the old Joel Spolsky blog post that he probably wrote 20+ years ago about his time in the Israeli Defence Forces, explaining to readers how showing is more impactful than telling. I feel like this paragraph is similar. When you have a low performer, you wonder to yourself, in the beginning, why does it seem like I spend more time explaining the task than the low performer spends to complete it!?
Medium
Kindle.