> if we increasingly describe workers as merely being “human-in-the-loop,” what is the human actually there for?

Your anecdote just answered this! Because the LLM slop output in excel wasn't good enough!

I pressed the back button on my browser. The URL updated to be the blog post's URL. A good start. But the UI did not change, leaving me at the desktop view.

Many moments like these if you use Posthog

I'm joking, obviously. Congrats on building something and seeing it come to fruition :)

A move this aggressive (e.g. pushing companies on Slack to pay 10x more, immediately, or get lost) is not isolated and probably the result of institutional forces. It's not like the random sales person in charge of this decided to be destructive. Salesforce the company is getting squeezed and this is one of the outgrowths of that pressure. And it speaks to the insane dysfunction that must be taking place in the bowels of Salesforce right now, I'm sure it's crazy.

[1] https://qz.com/salesforce-beats-q2-earnings-ai

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The existing power-ups that do this are pretty complicated to use, have unreasonably high pricing, and don't offer instant syncing in many cases. So it made sense to build something that was simple(r) and cheap(er) to use. Happy to answer any questions!

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By this definition a calculator would be an AGI. (Behold -- a man!)

"Professional" programmers won't rely on this level of abstraction, but that's similar in principle to how professional programmers don't spend their time doing data analysis with Python & pandas. i.e. the programming is an incidental inconvenience for the research analyst or data scientist or whatever and being able to generate code by just writing english docs and specs makes it much easier.

The real issue is debuggability, and in particular knowing your code is "generally" correct and not overfit on whatever specs you provided. But we are discussing a tractable problem at this point.

> But somewhere between your 38th Marvel movie and the millionth Heard-Depp trial rehash video, you might start to believe it. Even if it isn’t new, even if it’s easy to escape, and even if it’s not that bad, a cloying sameness occupies the cultural mainstream. It seems impenetrable, same as ever. But it’s especially surprising given how much creative work today exists outside the mainstream.

> It is a jarring contrast. At no point in history have people created so much with so few channels for consuming their work. Most consumers get their content through a narrow straw — TikTok’s “For You” page, the first page of Google’s search results, Instagram’s explore tab, miscellaneous streaming sites, and so on. Many lifetimes worth of creation get aggressively filtered down into a (very optimized) stream of content.

But high employment seems a little different to me than just low unemployment, just because my read is that there's fewer people working in general than before the pandemic (IIRC). [1][2]

[1] https://www.uschamber.com/workforce/understanding-americas-l... [2] https://www.fitchratings.com/research/sovereigns/fittch-rati...