Benedict Evans
👤 PersonAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
That was like amazing.
Yeah, it would do a week of work in half an hour.
Yeah.
Or less.
And he has all these stories about accountants who would, you know, they would be given a one month project and they get it done in a week and then they'd like go and play golf for three weeks because they partly because they didn't actually want to tell the client I needed it in a week because the client would think they hadn't done it properly.
So I look at ChatGPT and I think, right, I don't write code.
I have zero use for something that will write code for me.
I don't really do brainstorming.
I don't do a summarization of things.
I don't do the things where it's sort of out of the box, easy and obvious.
And then there's a sort of mental load of, OK, I've got to kind of try and think of what things am I doing that it could do for me.
And that most people don't think like that.
So there's a sort of, I said a moment ago, there's like a matrix.
There's a matrix of like, who has the kinds of tasks that it's good at, obviously.
Who is good at, has the kind of tasks that it's good at, not obviously.
Who is good at thinking about new tools for the things that they're doing?
Who isn't?
If you were using Salesforce and you had a button that said draft me an email to reply to this client, then that gets massive adoption.
Well, that's a feature that we talked about earlier.
But that's a different thing.