AI can be used to automate parts of work, but not everything should be delegated to AI. A reorganization automation project was built to help with painful company reorgs. In 2023, funding expectations pushed startups to incorporate AI to raise additional rounds. A proposed solution was to ask ChatGPT to perform a reorg using a plugin approach, similar to earlier plugin concepts. The motivation was urgency and limited resources, leading to experimentation with AI-driven workflows rather than relying on purely manual processes.
"To that end, let me talk about one thing I built. Before my current life, I worked at this company called Orgspace. We had this idea of what if you could write software to do reorgs? Who has ever done a reorg? Who has ever been subjected to a reorg? Who has ever had a pleasant experience after being subjected to a reorg? No, nobody's had a pleasant experience after being subjected to a reorg. This was some software we built to help you do that."
"Then, 2023 happened, and there was one immutable truth about 2023. If you had founded a startup and you wanted to raise another round, if you didn't do AI, you weren't going to be a startup anymore. How many non-AI startups have gotten funded that aren't like a coffee shop since 2023? Not very many. We had to have an answer for this."
"I thought, you know what would be brilliant, is to do this thing where we maybe ask ChatGPT to do the reorg for us. I know. Some of you are thinking, does Aaron just watch Black Mirror and think, that's a good idea. No, we probably shouldn't develop products that way. We were desperate. We were running out of money. We thought, what if we do this plugin? Who remembers ChatGPT plugins? It was like MCP before MCP was cool."
"What we were doing is, what if you just type in, I"
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