Josh Pitzalis

Contrasting reactions to AI adoption at work. Over the last two weeks I’ve began interviewing people about how they use generative AI at work, and I’m starting to see two opposing types of responses. Generalists seem to love it, and specialists hate it. Whatever you are good at, you will do better than the best…

David Bressler was a data analyst dealing with constant requests from junior analysts. He had an idea to automate these requests. Bressler didn’t know how to code. He taught himself using no-code tools and YouTube. His initial product was an Excel Formula Bot. He shared it with coworkers and the response was amazing. David then…

“What makes AI imagery so lousy isn’t the technology itself, but the cliché and superficial creative ambitions of those who use it.” “AI image generation is essentially a truncated exercise in taste; a product of knowing which inputs and keywords to feed the image-mashup machine, and the eye to identify which outputs contain any semblance…

Creating examples, finding blog post images, filling out forms, proofreading, tracking calories, and drafting emails. Generative AI is great at doing tedious work. It doesn’t always do a fantastic job, but it does things fast, and for most boring work, ‘good enough’ is all you need. Mollick wrote about using AI for boring work and…