Lenny

I had insurance from my job, and also insurance on my husband’s plan because he forgot to cancel it in time. I put in a claim for a leg X-ray after falling. They refused the claim, and only after reading the small print did I realize it was because they had the wrong primary insurance on file. I didn’t know that was a thing, just figured two = double plans. The letter they sent seemed to actively avoid explaining why I was refused.

Absolutely. AI is really good at single tasks of specific types. For example, it’s great for organizing your emails, or creating filler content for a website, or helping suggest responses for customer support people. And sure, it did an amazing job creating code for a Google spreadsheet so I could easily scrape radio websites for their competitions and win festival tickets for the seventh year in a row. But in all these things it’s incredibly one dimensional, and still needs a human to guide it. People come to my demo calls thinking that AI agents are fully possible and capable. Nope, not yet.

This is why I’ve sided with the enemy and my career involves educating people on how to build AI automation.

Yep. I will prompt Dall-E something, and by the third iteration it’s forgotten the main point of the image. I asked for a cat laying in a bread bin. First it did the cat sitting up, I asked for it lying down, then I had to ask for the cat inside the bin, then when I asked for the word bread on the bin it just switched to an illustration of a bread bin. It’s getting really hard to work with.

That soundtrack!