Obviously A cry for help

100%. My nice to have task list is mile long. And I want to get to it because they will make a real, meaningful differences for my team and clients. So, while there are real challenges with AI, the potential to help me, my business and my team is there.

I think this is a much bigger issue than people are thinking about. And while you see it first in education, it rapidly becomes an issue in the workforce. Employers have to figure out how to move entry level employees to experts rapidly. Because someone has to be standing at the end of the AI machine verifying the outputs.

This reminds me of something I heard: AI isn’t going to take your job. The person who knows how to use AI is going to take your job.

To be fair, due to rate compression, I can’t afford to pay for someone to do this work. So no one was getting hired. The question is whether or not I could complete the work. I do pay several people to work for me - none of which can do the work I’ve assigned to my AI agents. But I for sure wouldn’t hire someone who is so resistant to change that they can’t even handle AI summarizing my emails for me.

I have had good experiences setting up agents to do my work for me - saving me up to 10x the time on certain tasks (I own my own business, so I’m using it to extend myself). It does not replace expertise or reviewing work products. And it can take weeks to get an agent to produce usable work products. But for me, AI is a tool to help me be more efficient. 🤷

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I believe so.

Do you think marriages were ruined by assembling a Sears house too? 😉

I want to be friends with these women - they sound awesome.

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We are talking about different things. I’m talking about clothing.

We are talking about two different things. I mean clothing tags. You are right about prices on shelves.

That is harder for clothing stores, just functionally. Probably works for things that are more stationary.

I don’t think the retailers are saying they can’t price at the store-level. They are saying it is inefficient and burdensome - particularly as inventory moves (and would need to be recalculated and retagged). Anywho, it’s something you get used to, even if it is a weird way to operate.

Sales tax varies city by city, which means a business cannot have a central distribution center where price tagging occurs, nor could they move inventory (something that happens in retail quite often) - substantially shifting the burden onto businesses. For better or worse, I’m sure that’s how the price tagging discussion went…

Taxes aren’t on the price tag, but I figure them in as I am buying stuff. Tip too if it is at a restaurant or other tip-able service.

Edit: it does provide some transparency into where your money is going (are taxes high or is the store gauging you).

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I’m sure she does. Who wouldn’t in her position?

Probably 5 thin mints per gallon. In my mind, they are about $1 each. 😉