[anthuswilliams]

Without commenting on the product itself (I haven't tried it), the marketing copy around this release commits the same sins I have seen from Anthropic and Grok and all the rest of them.

I'm so tired of seeing these companies trivializing other people's work! Nobody's job is "edit files" and "respond to messages"! People have jobs like "find and close leads" and "reconcile accounts" and "arrange student field trips" and "make sure the hospital has enough inventory", not "generate reports" and "write code".

Editing files, producing reports, even writing code is just a byproduct. This is like the idiotic "lines of code produced" metric, but now they apply it to all of society.

[iugtmkbdfil834]

But.. to your point.. will it not be interesting once the management finds out there may be a little more to what we do?:D

[inerte]

They have to be generic because it's a generic tool. If they write "this tool can arrange student field trips", people might ignore thinking it has a narrow purpose.

Yes, work is being trivialized, but the symptom here isn't caused by that.

[anthuswilliams]

The issue is not that they are generic. You could still be generic with phraseology that actually acknowledged the contributions and ownership involved in the jobs being done. For example, you could write e.g. "monitor for outages", "manage projects", "arrange community events", "handle logistics", and so on.

But the problem is LLMs can't do those things. All they can do is "edit files" and "send messages".

[infecto]

While there definitely is a healthy dose of trivializing work I think once you scratch the surface the real messaging is that we can automate or optimize these parts of a current workflow to open work for higher value tasks to folks.

[anthuswilliams]

That sort of messaging has been done for decades with business process orchestration companies, RPA vendors, etc. All the way back to the original business software vendors like Lotus and Excel. It's only big LLM labs that adopt this tone of dismissive trivialization of other people's work.

[32df]

i posted about this numerous times on a throwaway: no vision. absolutely no vision. how long until they finally get found out?