I’ve sat on both sides of this and it’s a genuinely interesting question.
As someone with a technical background I completely understand that feeling. You walk past someone spending three hours on a PowerPoint and think, what is actually happening here.
But here’s what I’ve come to understand. The document is rarely the work. It’s the evidence of the work.That Word doc someone spent a day on probably represents weeks of conversations, decisions, disagreements, alignments and compromises that happened before anyone opened a blank page. The document is just where all of that gets crystallised into something an organisation can act on.
Organisations don’t run on code or products alone. They run on shared understanding. And shared understanding needs to be written down, formatted, presented and communicated in ways that different kinds of people can absorb and trust.
The person making that presentation isn’t just making slides. They’re translating something complex into something a room full of people with different contexts can agree on in forty five minutes. That’s actually a really hard skill.
The other thing worth considering in most organisations decisions don’t get made because something is technically correct. They get made because someone communicated it in a way that felt credible and clear to the people holding the budget.
Engineers build the thing. But someone has to convince the organisation the thing is worth building, funding and scaling.
That’s what those Word docs and ppts are often doing. Unglamorous. Underappreciated. But genuinely load bearing
I hope it happens quickly. These days I see many wearing those even in birthday parties as they want to capture every moment. But I find it pretty intrusive and awkward as if I’m on stage all the time
I built Loomavi. It decodes the pattern underneath
what you are feeling and gives you the insight as
a personal letter using psychology and philosophy.
I am a data scientist by background. Took a career break to become a mom and built this because I kept looking for something like it and could not find it
anywhere.
8 days live. Still figuring a lot out but the product feels real. https://loomavi.com/ if curious.
Congratulations on starting so early. It’s impressive.
I think getting the users is a hard part now because users are overloaded with different kinds of services and apps so you have to double down and decide who you are targeting and marketing for and only reach out to them.
I agree with you this lowering of barrier has made it so easy for everybody to create apps. The developer might not know what is good, but the customer surely decides so finally watch this is actually only the good ones.
And also the art is not just developing right? it’s also about having that idea having that vision working towards positioning it and then marketing in a way that appeals to other users not just to the one who created it
Sorry missed the point so to stand out I think we should know what is the gap and why we are creating the product and who is it for
how we are creating it has become much easier now
Great question but the point of AI is to just remove the barrier. You still need to have the depth and understanding of what you’re creating and why you are creating.
I can give you an example of myself. I have been a data scientist for 10+ years while I love data finding patterns telling a story. I’ve never enjoyed coding so much. I can do it very well, but enjoy it? No.
AI is basically my coding partner while I actually code and see what is happening. It also tells me if something goes wrong. I don’t have to break my head. Or waste hours fixing that.
I find this very useful. Yes I also know how much effort it takes to build anything because I need to build it still, somebody might be assisting me, but I am the brains.
OK, I had not really noticed this but now when you say this, I see a pattern yes think I do see more spams in my inbox lately and I thought maybe it’s me giving out my email everywhere.
I think it will be, but only for sometime. As the AI improves, the process also will improve and adapt overtime. And hopefully support will be much more smarter and easier and not low quality..
As someone with a technical background I completely understand that feeling. You walk past someone spending three hours on a PowerPoint and think, what is actually happening here.
But here’s what I’ve come to understand. The document is rarely the work. It’s the evidence of the work.That Word doc someone spent a day on probably represents weeks of conversations, decisions, disagreements, alignments and compromises that happened before anyone opened a blank page. The document is just where all of that gets crystallised into something an organisation can act on.
Organisations don’t run on code or products alone. They run on shared understanding. And shared understanding needs to be written down, formatted, presented and communicated in ways that different kinds of people can absorb and trust.
The person making that presentation isn’t just making slides. They’re translating something complex into something a room full of people with different contexts can agree on in forty five minutes. That’s actually a really hard skill.
The other thing worth considering in most organisations decisions don’t get made because something is technically correct. They get made because someone communicated it in a way that felt credible and clear to the people holding the budget.
Engineers build the thing. But someone has to convince the organisation the thing is worth building, funding and scaling.
That’s what those Word docs and ppts are often doing. Unglamorous. Underappreciated. But genuinely load bearing