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fromTechCrunch
6 days agoFathom adds a bot-less meeting mode in a bid to take on Granola | TechCrunch
A lot of these bot-less tools don't indicate who said what in their captured transcript. Many people face problems with misattribution when they ask their meeting note-taker a question about what they might have said in a particular meeting a few months ago.
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Productivity
fromSilicon Canals
2 days agoThe real enemy of high performance isn't laziness, it's low-grade busyness - Silicon Canals
Busy work does not equate to productivity; actual output declines significantly after working over fifty hours a week.
Productivity
fromFast Company
1 week agoThe productivity question AI forces us to ask
Productivity tools increase capabilities but also raise expectations, leading to a cycle of anxiety and an overwhelming pace of work.
Productivity
fromSilicon Canals
3 days agoI let AI plan my workdays down to the minute for a week - the shock wasn't my output, it was realizing how much of my old schedule had been performance - Silicon Canals
Using ChatGPT to manage a calendar revealed that much of the scheduled time was performance rather than productive work.
Productivity
fromSilicon Canals
2 weeks agoI deleted every productivity app on my phone and my output doubled - because I'd been spending more time optimizing my system than actually doing the work - Silicon Canals
Deleting productivity apps led to increased output by eliminating the management of systems that masked actual productivity.
fromRubyflow
1 month agoThe tool I wish I had 25 apps ago
Every iOS app I've shipped over the last nine years started the same way: a Rails developer with a great web app, users who want it in the App Store, and weeks spent on Xcode, signing certificates, and Swift boilerplate that has nothing to do with the actual product.
Artificial intelligence
fromFortune
1 week agoAI promises to free workers from grunt work, but psychologists say those mindless tasks are exactly what our brains need to recover | Fortune
Eliminating menial tasks with AI may reduce productivity by removing necessary breaks for mental bandwidth and problem-solving.
fromMedium
2 months agoNotebookLM: 5 Tips & Tricks to Maximize Your Efficiency
NotebookLM is quietly becoming one of the most powerful tools for serious thinking work; yet most people use only a fraction of its potential. If you work with research, strategy, product thinking, or complex data research & analysis, NotebookLM can dramatically improve the quality of your decisions. I've demonstrated what NotebookLM is capable of in the article NotebookLM for Product Designers.
Artificial intelligence
fromInfoWorld
2 months agoAI will not save developer productivity
The software industry is collectively hallucinating a familiar fantasy. We visited versions of it in the 2000s with offshoring and again in the 2010s with microservices. Each time, the dream was identical: a silver bullet for developer productivity, a lever managers can pull to make delivery faster, cheaper, and better. Today, that lever is generative AI, and the pitch is seductively simple: If shipping is bottlenecked by writing code, and large language models can write code instantly, then using an LLM means velocity should explode.
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence
fromLogRocket Blog
2 months agoWhy your AI agent needs a task queue (and how to build one) - LogRocket Blog
Task queues convert frequent, low-rate LLM failures into recoverable work while providing ordering, observability, and adaptive throttling to prevent duplication and race conditions.
Software development
fromDevOps.com
1 month agoGemini CLI Plan Mode Separates Thinking From Doing - and Makes Read-Only the Default - DevOps.com
Google's Gemini CLI plan mode enables AI agents to research and propose code changes in read-only state before implementation, requiring human approval before any modifications occur.
fromFast Company
2 months agoIf work leaves you no time for life, try this calendar trick
They may be spending a lot of combined time at the office and commuting, or just putting in a lot of hours both at work and at home. Fixing that problem can't be done abstractly, though. If you're going to address the balance of work and life activities, you have to start getting specific about where your time is going and where you really want it to go.
Productivity
fromInfoWorld
2 months agoSix reasons to use coding agents
One thing I always do when I prompt a coding agent is to tell it to ask me any questions that it might have about what I've asked it to do. (I need to add this to my default system prompt...) And, holy mackerel, if it doesn't ask good questions. It almost always asks me things that I should have thought of myself.
Software development
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