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Ask & Adjust: The Future of Productivity Interfaces
Of course, the reality is more complex, and it’s better to think in terms of automation and autocomplete than vertical software and replacing designers, but whole layers of grunt work will be removed, just as they were with GUIs and SQL.
Benedict Evans • Benedict's Newsletter: No. 547
Jimmy Cerone added
Not sure if this is positive, but the most coherent take on AI I’ve seen so far. Realistic but not panicked.
…Makes me wonder if the path to truly win the modern “productivity app” category is launching an underlying set of APIs for every aspect of project management + personal productivity with a wide and evolving set of products and interfaces (native ones and third-party creations) that users can switch between (and, in the process, endure a light “cle... See more
Scott Belsky • Scott Belsky - On Tech/Product, Creativity, & Making Ideas Happen - Issue #9
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Mariana Oliveira and added
Information work increasingly asks employees to handle more complexity—but we should not have to self-manage our own productivity in imperfect systems laid atop programmer thinking to simply do our work.
Matt Alston • Your Project Management Software Can't Save You
Indy Neogy added
The solution might be a meta layer on top of the productivity stack that works horizontally across all function workflows.
Julian Lehr • Superhuman & the Productivity Meta-Layer
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In a world where the UI is adaptive to the user’s intention, interfaces could become just-in-time composition of components through a simple prompt, or inferred from prior actions, rather than navigating through nested menus and fields. An example like below, in a context aware CRM, where the user prompts “input an opportunity for a lead”, the UI c... See more
Jennifer Li • How Generative AI Is Remaking UI/UX Design | Andreessen Horowitz
Daniel Machlup added
for any productivity software, the only good use case for ai is lightweight, overridable autosuggests
if you try to add gen ai slop to my work tools, i will fight you
(early proto i whipped up for linear projects a week ago) https://t.co/7Bc4AvESiM
alex added
AI allows me to retreat to industrial intermediate production. To being a OEM vendor of words. Some assembly required. Which I now trust you to do with AI help even if you have no aptitude for verbal refinement and finishing processes.
Venkatesh Rao • My Post-Ai Writing
Jonathan Simcoe added