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If you can't even make a buck torching the planet so people don't have to write their own emails, how do you live? angery

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[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What you think you need: AI to write emails for you
What you actually need: a return to the slower pace and more literary style of the 19th century so you have more opportunities to express yourself creatively: "Dear Sir: It pains me to inform you that the instructions that you have provided for my calculating machine are producing erroneous projections. For my business to proceed as planned, I must have a remedy posthaste."

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Nah what we actually need is to break away from established social conventions that do nothing but waste time. Emails, but see also resumes and cover letters.

[–] Cimbazarov@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago

Yea I'm starting to develop a rule of thumb where if AI can totally replace something, it probably wasn't that important to begin with

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Emails still have some function unless the game plan is to just do everything through text messages.

I'll be first in line to drive a stake through the heart of the cover letter, though.

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Specifically work emails where there's this weird standard of formality. My work started using Slack and while obviously it's still not great, it's viewed much more casually.

I don’t like Slack for pretty nitpicky reasons but getting rid of the weird email standard of formality is probably the biggest upside