Nostr

I’m not really sure how this lines up with my pro-human, libertarian views but I’ve been leaning into some AI tools the past couple weeks and I’m pretty blown away.

I’m a director at a company offering services in the construction industry and it’s saving me on average a couple hrs a day. Also, me digging into AI has coincidentally coincided with me onboarding a new junior employee to help with some administrative tasks within my team. If I knew then when I was hiring this person what I know now in terms of AI’s capabilities i probably wouldn’t have hired them.

AI is already replacing people and it’s the college trained middle managers who are next.

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nobody 10mo ago

I wrote a simple prompt for outputting estimate text for our hourly services, or a contract price for any job, based on entering line items of the job scope. It has taken my average estimate generation time for small jobs from 30 minutes down to 5.

Has it made my life easier? Yes. Does it mean I get to go home at noon every day? No.

Business owners, not workers, are the benefactors of the productivity gains of new technologies. Just like smart phones, it just means we can cram more individual operations into an ever lengthening workday.

Employment is still a racket.

Mr Meadow 10mo ago

Yea, agreed. Without humans keeping humans in mind as they integrate AI into our businesses profits will be maximized rather than time for humans to flourish.

That said, my current thesis is that if you can capture your knowledge in an environment where you own the IP you’ll be able to leverage it at 10X your hourly rate and do a whole lot less work.

In other words, use AI to replicate yourself but make sure you replicated self is an environment that you own and manage rather than your company

nobody 10mo ago

Yep, and if I go, the IP goes with me.

The Bird 10mo ago

Any recommendations for what you are using to learn more about the prompts and such?

Mr Meadow 10mo ago

I’m taking a masterclass on AI that does a good job of talking theory but also practical use cases. The two things in terms of prompts that it gave me that have been helpful are:

1. Always give your chat agent / AI a persona in your prompt to ground their response (e.g. “you are expert salesperson, please review this script and provide ….)

2. Tell your AI to ask three clarification questions before it responds to your question.

The other thing I’m picking up is that it does great with responding to content, so upload meeting transcript, email thread, contract and have it review everything so you can just ask questions that concern you rather than having to read every word

The Bird 10mo ago

Keep throwing those pointers out LOL. I do the last one quite often and it does help a lot. I will start using the first two.

Mr Meadow 10mo ago

Hah, we’ll figure this AI stuff out right before the terminators come.