Let's take LLM-powered tools at their word.
"All you need is to punch in a few prompts and you'll get a beautifully designed long-form slide deck/document/email/whatever!"
And on the other end, "All you need is to punch in a few prompts to get the gist of any long doc you receive!"
Who is actually reading the long-form doc then?
Why do we need it??
A wag once said, bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy ðŸ¤
There is no need for more busywork in the world!
If this is the primary reason for existence of these "tools", then I hate to break it to them… but… this is not a stable equilibrium.
They are going to put each other out of business
once everyone realises the waste of $ involved (let alone the environmental impact)
Instead you will get two different equilibria:
- Either humans will produce short docs instead of reams of dross and other humans will read and act on these short docs
- Or AIs will produce long, human-UNreadable docs and other AIs will read them and act on them
But it is hard for humans to write a crisp argument.
A former boss once told Jeremy that anyone who needed 45 pages to pitch a potential transaction didn't really understand the transaction
And it is even harder to judge when a crisp argument is appropriate and when it is necessary to be comprehensive
So I'm betting the latter will be far more common. Not everything that can be summarised should be summarised
Agree? Disagree? It depends?
Bonus quote:
Dwight Eisenhower once said, "An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows."
You could say the same about many LLM outputs 🤣
