There is a lot of complaints about Coda docs being integrated with AI.
AI infused documents is the new normal. It doesn’t matter whether it is word docs, spreadsheets PowerPoint, or any of the new no code tools.
@Bill_French2 shared a link to a Microsoft presentation on their integration of Co-pilot with Office, I strongly recommend that you watch that video. Can
Let me illustrate with a yarn. For all of human history before the 20th century, written knowledge was shared on an inert surface by a human. In the 20th century we finally developed the ability to digitally store, manipulate and transmit knowledge to another person(s).
This lead to an explosion of information and knowledge, to the extent that knowledge workers spend as much as 40% of their time looking for information buried in files and folders.
Gradually, the writing surface gained limited intelligence, correcting spelling mistakes, and later made grammar suggestions. For the first time, the writing surface “talked back”.
Recently nocode tools started providing the ability to create smart documents with links and backlinks, easily accessible tables. Now information could be easily searched in corporate wide hubs and other ways of storing data.
This accelerated again with the advent of AI in its various forms. In the Microsoft video I mentioned above, they provide really amazing examples of AI meaningfully assisting in the creation of new knowledge. It can be slides prepared from text, analysis of spreadsheet data, anything you can imagine.
The only other platform in the same league as Microsoft, is the Coda/Grammarly/Snowflake combination.
Knowledge workers are now in possession of a writing surface that will with a Coda =, @, / AI prompt or a Grammarly button be able to engage in an intelligent conversation with you. It will search and refine.
Context aware of what you are writing, aware of relevant information in general, and corporate information specifically. While at the same time, it will also manage your permissions to access data.
No software developer of office type tools is going to develop something that does not include AI, it’s just not going to happen, indeed, it is going to accelerate.
And Coda/Grammarly had just moved up a gear. Or two.