Knowledge work is just search & summarization over unstructured input, says ex-Uber ML lead
neal_lathia · x · 2026-10-07
Neal Lathia (ex-Uber ML lead) offers a "bitter lesson for knowledge workers": what we often call knowledge work is just search & summarization over unstructured input — squarely the territory where LLMs already excel, implying much of it is directly automatable.
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