Leaders from Box, Meta, and LinkedIn on how AI is reshaping the future of work
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Everybody here is familiar with context engineering. It’s sort of a simple analogy—which is if you have an employee off the street, a superintelligent person, who doesn’t know what kind of job they’re in. They just appeared. And you’re, like, “Okay, today you’re a lawyer and the next day you’re a marketer and the next day you’re a coder.”
That’s kind of what an AI model is. And so you have to give it the context necessary to be able to perform its tasks.
And so maybe, actually, ironically, if anything, you’ll have to get more context than the person would. It’s actually very easy for an employee to pick up the general cultural sort of norms and work practices, because they can just look over at one other person and say, “Oh, I see the way that you just collaborated over there.”
And so we’re more of a collaborative culture versus we just make really quick decisions and then move forward. An AI agent again doesn’t know, “Did I just join SpaceX, or did I join Patagonia?” I’m assuming those are two different ends of the cultural spectrum. So you’re going to have to tell the agent effectively, like, “Who are you right now? And here are the norms in our organization, and here is the context about the business process that you’re involved in.”
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