Heard a developer at a meetup in Denver say they trained a small AI model on just their own emails to draft replies. Is that a normal thing now?

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Honestly that sounds like a huge time saver for the boring email stuff. Kinda wild how easy it is to spin up a personal model now. Bet it gets the tone right too since it's just their own writing. Makes me wanna try it for my own inbox chaos.

nguyen.blake3mo ago

Yeah right. Good luck with that @diana_carr66. These things never get the tone right, they just make you sound like a robot. It's your own words but mixed up in a weird way. I tried one for estimates and it sent a client a message calling them "buddy" three times. Total waste of time.

gray8751mo ago

Ask @diana_carr66 how many old emails she fed into it. I tried this exact same thing with my customer replies and it kept throwing in "no worries" at the start of every single message, even the ones where people were angry about a late shipment. That buddy thing you mentioned is exactly the problem - it picks up on one tone word and just runs with it. Did yours actually learn to vary the language or did it just latch onto a few phrases?

kevin9743mo ago

Totally get the worry about tone, but it worked for me! I trained a small model on my old support tickets. Now it drafts first replies that sound just like me, even uses my usual phrases to check back in. It saves me a ton of time on the simple stuff. Diana_carr66 has the right idea for boring emails. You just have to feed it enough of your own writing first.