This is how most of the tech industry thinks – looking at the existing process and trying to see which parts can be automated – but I’d argue that it’s actually not that great of a framework for finding good uses for technology. It’s an artifact of a VC-funded industry, which sees technology primarily as a way to save costs on labor.
In this particular case, I do think LLMs would be great at lowering labor costs associated with writing summaries, but you’d end up with a lot of cluttered, mediocre summaries clogging up your notes, just like all the other bloatware that most of our jobs now force us to deal with.
This is how most of the tech industry thinks – looking at the existing process and trying to see which parts can be automated – but I’d argue that it’s actually not that great of a framework for finding good uses for technology. It’s an artifact of a VC-funded industry, which sees technology primarily as a way to save costs on labor.
In this particular case, I do think LLMs would be great at lowering labor costs associated with writing summaries, but you’d end up with a lot of cluttered, mediocre summaries clogging up your notes, just like all the other bloatware that most of our jobs now force us to deal with.