Are AI Tools Actually Making Us Productive — or Just Giving Us Something New to Play With?

说明与用途

AI 助手虽然强大，但仅充当顾问，用户需要在多个应用间复制粘贴，导致上下文丢失和生产力下降。多模态 AI 工作区让 AI 能在编辑器、文档、电子表格、幻灯片等工具内直接操作，弥合这一差距，提升效率。

问题

AI assistants are powerful but act only as advisors; users become couriers, copying output across many apps, losing context and productivity.

结果

The author identifies the courier problem and proposes a multimodal AI workspace (e.g., Xenition) as a solution to integrate AI actions directly into the tools used, improving productivity.

工作流

• Open AI chat and request code model
• Copy code to editor
• Request API route, copy and tweak
• Request migration script, copy and tweak
• Draft documentation, paste into doc, reformat
• Generate spreadsheet formulas, copy into sheet
• Create slides, paste into deck
• Repeat for each task

证据

I became a courier… I had to copy the AI’s output from one window to a dozen windows it couldn’t touch.

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The AI was smart, but it couldn’t act inside the tools I used.

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Xenition… one persistent chat where the right surface opens itself… agents that don’t just answer but take multi‑step actions.

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