• Montagge@lemmy.zip
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    24 days ago

    Trying real hard not to be old man yelling at clouds, but have things gotten so bad people can no longer write a simple email without help with sentence structure?

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      24 days ago

      I’m a software developer, not a writer or a salesperson, but I have to do sales to sell my software.

      I can write a first draft of a sales email to get my ideas across and then have the AI look at it from a specific perspective I don’t have the skills in.

      I dont just take whatever it says and hit send though, I have a conversation with it to tweak things i don’t like, remove things that I don’t think are needed or add things it missed.

      Do this for 15 to 20 minutes and I end up with a much more polished email that won’t come across as AI slop with all the personal touches I did want to add.

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        24 days ago

        Just a question on the value of time: If you can’t be bothered to write it, why should anyone bother to read it? Is it really that valuable of a message?

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              24 days ago

              Depends on the email. Sometimes it’s needed.

              I can spend 10-20 min writing an email that basically says “no your idea is dumb and won’t work” to customers in such a way where by the end of it they agree with me.

              It can take a bit of effort but with high stakes communication it’s needed.

              If you’re just sending an email to your teacher or whatever it doesn’t really matter.