Live documents can keep a business dashboard current

Transcript

From the transcript AI & I publishes with the episode.

1. 17:03

   It's a big bet to do three like office suite type tools in one launch. We didn't set out wanting to do this. And then we realized, and I'm sure you've realized your own version of this too, that software was really not designed on the whole for collaborating with AI. And you can use it yourself, or you can have AI use it on your behalf. But to really collaborate closely, especially when it's multiple people and multiple people's AIs all working together, like a lot of the current abstractions we have break down.

2. 17:37

   So this is definitely an ambitious bet, but I think the space of human AI collaboration is really important to explore. How are you working with it? Like, are you reviewing docs in space, or are you making docs, and do you have expectations for how much of it you're typing versus how much of it your dot is doing for you, and also with the docs that you get? Like, are you reviewing it from that perspective, too?

3. 18:04

   If there's, like, a new idea, I like writing the old-fashioned way because it helps me, like, think about it. So I still do that and then maybe have my dot or other people's dot, like, do the follow-ups. But one of the things that I have found most amazing about it, and I don't think we have a word for this yet, but for lack of a better word, these live documents, creating a doc that is going to automatically update as people interact or as other things change in the world.

4. 18:31

   And something that like many of our dots can work with together, not only to like share information, but actually like, you know, seven people's dots can working together create something new that kind of existed in all of our heads to some degree, but was like an emergent thing. That's been very fun as we think about new features to explore. Is there a specific live doc that has been most useful for you?

5. 18:53

   I have switched. Like the dashboard, I think everybody's probably got like a dashboard that they look at every day for how the company's doing and the way they care about. And I used to share one with everybody else or many other people. And I now have one that is kind of like a changing summary of the business just for me based off of like the evolving things that I'm caring about or not caring about.

6. 19:16

   like looks at all my Slack messages, makes me a new thing, like constantly updates it. And it's like, oh, this just feels like a living document. That's sick. What do you care about now? A lot on my mind recently is just how we're thinking about the safety alignment and security challenge in front of us. But, you know, six months ago, I probably cared more about revenue and growth and metrics of this sort of traditional part of the business.

7. 19:38

   So watching that evolve, I've actually been thinking about how I can like, because I'd be very curious to see what my dot thinks I care about each day the most over time. And we don't currently have a good way to visualize that. That is really interesting. I have not been able to get my dot to figure out a cool way to do that. I've been one. I would love to see that over the course of years. I think that's really cool.