Benedict Evans

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1,906 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard Sep 2025 last heard 4 Jun

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There's a kind of class of stuff where it works.

but I mean a couple of years ago somebody said AI is good at stuff that computers are bad at and bad at stuff that computers are good at and that's

I struggle to find many examples of those where I need it.

But then I'm a kind of a unique, weird job.

I sit at my desk all day trying to synthesize a whole bunch of other stuff into a whole bunch of new ideas.

That's not a particularly common way for people to spend their time.

I struggle to find AI use cases.

I am the accountant looking at the spreadsheet and thinking, well, that's very clever.

And this is clearly going to completely transform everything.

But I actually don't make spreadsheets every day.

Yeah, well, I mean, there's variations of all of this.

It's like, I don't want the AI to do the stuff I do for fun.

I want it to do the boring stuff that I don't do for fun.

And finding that mesh.

I mean, joking apart, this is going to come back to kind of my chatbot point, that the chatbot is a blank screen in a jagged edge.

What am I supposed to do and what will work?

And that's a big problem.

And the solution to that problem is to wrap it in use cases.

Part of it is also like AI just disappears.

So most of what I write now, I dictate.

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