Comment by gameman144

Comment by gameman144 a day ago

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> Sure, at first you will want an AI agent to draft emails that you review and approve before sending. But later you will get bored of approving AI drafts and want another agent to review them automatically.

This doesn't seem to me like an obvious next step. I would definitely want my reviewing step to be as simple as possible, but removing yourself from the loop entirely is a qualitatively different thing.

As an analogue, I like to cook dinner but I am only an okay cook -- I like my recipes to be as simple as possible, and I'm fine with using premade spice mixes and such. Now the simplest recipe is zero steps: I order food from a restaurant, but I don't enjoy that as much because it is (similar to having AI approve and send your emails without you) a qualitatively different experience.

hiatus a day ago

> I order food from a restaurant, but I don't enjoy that as much because it is (similar to having AI approve and send your emails without you) a qualitatively different experience.

What do you like less about it? Is it the smells of cooking, the family checking on the food as it cooks, the joy of realizing your own handiwork?

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  • gameman144 a day ago

    For me, I think it's the act of control and creation -- I can put the things I like together and try new thing and experiment with techniques or ingredients, whereas ordering from a restaurant I'll only be seeing the end results from someone else's experimentation or experience.

    I don't dislike restaurants, to be clear -- I love a dinner out. It just scratches a different itch than cooking a meal at home.

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bambax a day ago

The cooking analogy is good. I too love to cook, and what I make is often not as good as what I could order, but that's not the point. The point is to cook.

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