On July 27 2026 11:29 ETisME wrote:On July 25 2026 21:11 Jankisa wrote:On July 25 2026 16:48 Yurie wrote:On July 24 2026 21:47 Jankisa wrote:
It's hilarious that you are preaching how companies should use AI by dishing out the most generic, low level "just use n8n and zapier bro" and "connect it to your email dude" advice.
Each time you post you reveal how surface level your approach is.
I guess I'll just have to ignore your post due to horrific lack of formatting and honestly level of comprehension when you try to talk about things you obviously know very little about that makes them completely unreadable. Doesn't matter if its economic, politics, climate change or crypto, it's all just vibes and aimless context switching.
Not that different albeit slightly less schizofrenic then Jimmy.
Actually, connect to your e-mail is a surprisingly complex use case in some company settings. You often have group e-mails (think support e-mail boxes) and chatgpt doesn't connect to those in our setup. So you as a normal user would have to work past restrictions in place to make progress.
It is stuff like this that makes me feel AI is still in the early adopter phase for non IT people in a company setting. Anything you try to do runs into access issues as the pipelines to do things easily aren't setup.
If you just want it to summarize a text it can do that, though sometimes you have to download it and feed it to the AI since it can't access the file storage. If you want it to generate a picture or subpar powerpoint it can do that as well.
These productivity "hacks" and stuff, to me, can be useful but overall they aren't going to make you that much better at your job, in a lot of cases, it's quite the opposite.
Generally, my rule of thumb is that if you really need LLM help to find your emails kind of means you don't have great organizational skills, if you need it to find you SharePoint or similar documentation, it again means that this is not well organized.
We have bookmarks, notebooks, reminders, to do lists, all of this has kind of been addressed and I really don't see why would I need to give all this access to an LLM that can still fuck up and hallucinate something just so I can shave a few seconds off of a task that takes a few minutes anyway.
The fact that you need to spend a lot of time setting it up and then ironing out kinks like Shared Mailbox access and similar are just extra reasons why this is not attractive to me, plus, I've been interviewing people for 2 positions and you can kind of tell a difference between a technical person who knows how to use AI to make their life easier by having it write actual technical tools for them and someone who just thinks it's neat that they can have it look up emails or documents. In the medium term, I have a feeling the latter ones will be the ones most easily replaceable by more capable and reliable LLMs.
The technology still fucks up on daily basis, so for me the best way of using it is use it for what it's best at, coding, and use it to code things that you can QA yourself and then continue using it forever, instead of paying for tokens every day so LLM can do your job for you.
I really disagree with image and document generation tho, Claude has been pretty amazing at creating SVGs for our documentation, flowcharts, network and infrastructure diagrams, if you are working on something for a while you just tell it when you need to present it and you get a full, very good looking (would take me days good looking) slide decks or simple animated HTMLs.
Image has also been amazing for a long time now, I did a lot of fun, custom wine labels for friends and customers, again, stuff that would take me days to get to the level of quality in Photoshop are done in a few prompts, I don't even need to post process it anymore because it does text, even Croatian very well, and I've never paid for one of these, all done with free Gemini or ChatGPT.
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N8N and zapier are some of the most useful tools in the market out there, it's cross platform automation.
with or without AI, it's one of the most important tools you can have. Especially for my company and department scale. offshore vendors, over 5 platforms, multiple languages etc.
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Shared mailbox exists in majority of business, especially once they reach medium scale.
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We have bookmarks, notebooks, reminders, to do lists, all of this has kind of been addressed and I really don't see why would I need to give all this access to an LLM that can still fuck up and hallucinate something just so I can shave a few seconds off of a task that takes a few minutes anyway. -You need to rank the complexity of task and your model quality.
Maybe last year hallucination risk would have been more concerning, even with cheapest free model this doesn't really happen anymore.
Try running edge AI like gemma 4 E2B on your phone to do reminders and to do list.
The idea is you can do things better, unless you like to write about meeting agenda, transcripts and action plan.
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a technical person who knows how to use AI to make their life easier by having it write actual technical tools for them and someone who just thinks it's neat that they can have it look up emails or documents. In the medium term, I have a feeling the latter ones will be the ones most easily replaceable by more capable and reliable LLMs. -It's both the low-level operation to high level integration that works for everyone.
And again, it doesn't even need AI integration itself.
Efficiency gain is to put human expertise at the right place, not "I could have done it myself".
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Image has also been amazing for a long time now, I did a lot of fun, custom wine labels for friends and customers, again, stuff that would take me days to get to the level of quality in Photoshop are done in a few prompts, I don't even need to post process it anymore because it does text, even Croatian very well, and I've never paid for one of these, all done with free Gemini or ChatGPT. -How did you generate custom wine labels for production? Claude cannot produce cmyk/pantone colour ready files for printing?
We get a lot of AI generated files and designers have to redraw it pretty much.
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