Posts tagged: Productivity
This meeting could have been a prompt
A lot of the meetings on my calendar today seem to exist to gather something. Get everyone’s status so the group can align. Articulate two options side by side to compare. Create a report for the people who weren’t in the room. In each case, we (humans) are moving information from one place to another.
Most of that can be a prompt right now. The context is already there: in docs, threads, and trackers, a model can read all of it, and what used to take a room full of people and an hour now takes a good question and a few minutes.
Teach AI to write like you (not like everyone else)
Every time I ask an LLM to draft something for me, there’s a version of the output that reads like it was written by a committee of consultants who all attended the same TED talk. You know the voice: punchy, agreeable, decorated with em dashes, and somehow both confident and saying nothing at all.
That’s the default. And for a while I accepted it, because editing AI output into something that sounds like me was still faster than writing from scratch. But it’s a tax. Every draft needs the same corrections: strip the buzzwords, collapse the dramatic one-liners, ground the abstractions in something real. At some point the pattern becomes hard to ignore.