Future of Work

TL;DR for operators A new Microsoft Research paper does something more useful than another round of “AI will change everything” bingo: it looks at roughly 200,000 anonymised U.S. Bing Copilot conversations and asks which work activities people actually use generative AI for.1 The result is not an automation forecast. It is a map of where AI already touches work. ...

TL;DR for operators Vibe managing is not “let the dashboard tell you how everyone feels.” That is not leadership; it is astrology with API access. The useful version is more precise: managers use AI to collect weak signals from work systems, simulate communication options, draft interventions, and track follow-through. The human manager still owns judgment, accountability, and trust. AI becomes a co-manager only in the operational sense: it helps manage context, not conscience. ...