The trialled personal agent wrote performance reviews from thin air and a useless launch doc

Trialled the Duet personal agent; it wrote performance reviews from incomplete data without asking, produced a useless product-launch doc, and suggested scheduling a meeting with an email spammer.

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He trials the personal agent
It writes performance reviews from incomplete data without asking
Produces a useless product-launch document
And suggests scheduling junk

Why it’s worth knowing

Performance reviews from incomplete data is the most dangerous sentence in HR.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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