I've been having conversations with normies about how they can use AI, but they don't really seem to grasp the basic idea of an automation, something that does something or 100 times something, on some trigger. The don't understand that a loop is free, that 100x is as difficult as 1x.

Ie, I tell someone, you could set up something that makes a Word doc for you with math problems, based on a theme, optionally picked from a pool of "approved" problems. That'd take about 30 min to make. "No I can't do that every time, 30 minutes!" No, I mean then it's there, forever, for all your colleagues to use, I mean. Ok how?

Well... I don't know copilot in MS365 and stay away from it, but I can imagine it can do with Word and Excel what I do with Markdown and websites?

I'm starting to see MS' "problem" now :)

Hah, I think there's quite a few of us like this. We didn't have the time to spend doing this work in the past, but now with AI we can have it build what we want by giving it our ideas and framework.

It's going to be interesting to see what kind of new innovations across various industries comes from this over the next few years as the subject matter experts gets to work on their own ideas.