Hi everyone, We are brainstorming a work automation tool. Its purpose is to help you automate or outsource some of your work functions using AI to gain more freedom in life as an employee stuck in a job. It's not a B2B tool; it's a tool you pay for in exchange for autonomy. Assuming the product is launched and does what it promises, would you pay for it? What challenges do you expect to face?
One thing I have noticed is managers hate people having free time. If there is free time they will be given more tasks. Your tool will ultimately end in layoffs because fewer people working 12 hours or even 8 hour days can do task of many. Manager’s expectations will rise since you can accomplish more in less time.
I expect this to run afoul of the employment agreement of just about any company. I have extreme concerns with how such a tool would handle confidential data. I have no doubt this tool would not come close to automating 40% of my work unless it can communicate with other humans for me. If this does what it says it does then companies would use it (or create one) to eliminate that work at the organization level, leaving nothing left for an individual to automate away themselves. Seems like it will be pointless in the long run, maybe some short term benefits but I'm not paying anywhere close to 10% of my salary when chatgpt can probably do it just as well for less
If it’s a work-authorized reduction - I.e. 10% salary reduction to work an agreed 3-day week, it’s a no-brainer. But pay 10% out of my own pocket to be 40% more productive is an entirely different proposition. You’ll be found out and either given more work or get fired.
The fundamental issue is that all of these tools are just GPT4 wrappers. There’s no moat. Whatever you build someone can probably clone it in a few weeks. Now due to that it’s a race to the bottom basically. No one is going to pay more than say $20 a month for it because other tools will be priced about that. Then you have to consider that if such a tool exists and can help you reduce your workload, why wouldn’t employers force you to use it and just give you 40% more work? That’s exactly what will happen.
No because in IT it's not guaranteed that you will leave from work at X hours
Yes on the deal, but I haven't seen any "AI" tools yet that weren't useless crap.
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