Ah, great question. I use it to build first drafts of thing that would take me several hours to do myself. So not only is it faster, I'm able to complete other work while the agent is working. My productivity has gone up 50-100%. I can't afford to hire another me, so this helps to bridge the gap.
Specific example: Today it rebuilt a 30 slide training deck while I did some marketing tasks and troubleshooted a Google/Outlook calendar issue created by a new hire. When Cowork was done I reviewed and modified the training deck. Time saved ~5 hours.
I tell it and provide source materials. I'm getting better at providing the right guidance and content to get decent results. If you give it terrible direction, it will completely shit the bed.
Edit: you gotta treat it like a brand new employee who has terrible judgement. If you offer that level of direction, then it works pretty well.
Due to business changes, we had to swap out the overview of each service and replace them with different services. Each of which included an overview, our service approach and an example project. There were 9 new services. That then required the 2 exercises and the purpose/agenda slides to be updated. There were some other contextual slides that needed tweaks. I also hated the color scheme of the original deck and had that update throughout.
I still had to do work on the deck. It does things like gets goal and outcome confused (which matters for us). Also the overall structure needed some help.
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cobwoms@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 16 pts · 33d
all microsoft needs is a million more posts like this one and they might just have a successful product
sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 33d
Hopefully it won't go the way of the Zune (why was brown even a color option!?!). It genuinely helps my small business. 🤷
enbee@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 33d
How? And be specific.
sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 33d
Ah, great question. I use it to build first drafts of thing that would take me several hours to do myself. So not only is it faster, I'm able to complete other work while the agent is working. My productivity has gone up 50-100%. I can't afford to hire another me, so this helps to bridge the gap.
Specific example: Today it rebuilt a 30 slide training deck while I did some marketing tasks and troubleshooted a Google/Outlook calendar issue created by a new hire. When Cowork was done I reviewed and modified the training deck. Time saved ~5 hours.
BCsven@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 33d
How does it know what to do?
sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 33d
I tell it and provide source materials. I'm getting better at providing the right guidance and content to get decent results. If you give it terrible direction, it will completely shit the bed.
Edit: you gotta treat it like a brand new employee who has terrible judgement. If you offer that level of direction, then it works pretty well.
enbee@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 33d
When you say rebuilt what does that entail?
sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 32d
Due to business changes, we had to swap out the overview of each service and replace them with different services. Each of which included an overview, our service approach and an example project. There were 9 new services. That then required the 2 exercises and the purpose/agenda slides to be updated. There were some other contextual slides that needed tweaks. I also hated the color scheme of the original deck and had that update throughout.
I still had to do work on the deck. It does things like gets goal and outcome confused (which matters for us). Also the overall structure needed some help.
wuphysics87@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 31d
Maybe brown because it was a piece of shit
mrfriki@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 32d
Was about to downvote when I saw the name of the community.
sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 32d
To be fair, it is a truly unpopular opinion.
garbage_world@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 27d
sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 27d
Yes - a ton.
garbage_world@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 27d
HubertManne@piefed.social · 1 pts · 32d
hard for me to vote as I have no idea what it is besides obviously some llmesk thing.
sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 32d
It's just an agent that does your work for you.
Reygle@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 27d
Nice. Every time you use it, shove a tenner up your ass.