Ah, great question. I use it to build first drafts of thing that would take me several hours to do myself. So not only is it faster, I’m able to complete other work while the agent is working. My productivity has gone up 50-100%. I can’t afford to hire another me, so this helps to bridge the gap.
Specific example: Today it rebuilt a 30 slide training deck while I did some marketing tasks and troubleshooted a Google/Outlook calendar issue created by a new hire. When Cowork was done I reviewed and modified the training deck. Time saved ~5 hours.
I tell it and provide source materials. I’m getting better at providing the right guidance and content to get decent results. If you give it terrible direction, it will completely shit the bed.
Edit: you gotta treat it like a brand new employee who has terrible judgement. If you offer that level of direction, then it works pretty well.
Due to business changes, we had to swap out the overview of each service and replace them with different services. Each of which included an overview, our service approach and an example project. There were 9 new services. That then required the 2 exercises and the purpose/agenda slides to be updated. There were some other contextual slides that needed tweaks. I also hated the color scheme of the original deck and had that update throughout.
I still had to do work on the deck. It does things like gets goal and outcome confused (which matters for us). Also the overall structure needed some help.
Hopefully it won’t go the way of the Zune (why was brown even a color option!?!). It genuinely helps my small business. 🤷
Maybe brown because it was a piece of shit
How? And be specific.
Ah, great question. I use it to build first drafts of thing that would take me several hours to do myself. So not only is it faster, I’m able to complete other work while the agent is working. My productivity has gone up 50-100%. I can’t afford to hire another me, so this helps to bridge the gap.
Specific example: Today it rebuilt a 30 slide training deck while I did some marketing tasks and troubleshooted a Google/Outlook calendar issue created by a new hire. When Cowork was done I reviewed and modified the training deck. Time saved ~5 hours.
How does it know what to do?
I tell it and provide source materials. I’m getting better at providing the right guidance and content to get decent results. If you give it terrible direction, it will completely shit the bed.
Edit: you gotta treat it like a brand new employee who has terrible judgement. If you offer that level of direction, then it works pretty well.
When you say rebuilt what does that entail?
Due to business changes, we had to swap out the overview of each service and replace them with different services. Each of which included an overview, our service approach and an example project. There were 9 new services. That then required the 2 exercises and the purpose/agenda slides to be updated. There were some other contextual slides that needed tweaks. I also hated the color scheme of the original deck and had that update throughout.
I still had to do work on the deck. It does things like gets goal and outcome confused (which matters for us). Also the overall structure needed some help.