Week of August 9: In Your Own Words

In Your Own Words

Your workspace is staffed with atoms: AI workers you hire, brief, and send off with real work — the doc, the spreadsheet, the research you don't have time for. When one handed back a one-off task, you could close it, run it again, or turn it into something recurring. What you couldn't do was tell it what was wrong.

Now you can. Say what to change, and the same atom reworks that task with your notes in hand.

What's New

Send it back in your own words

Under a finished one-off task — work you asked for once, rather than a whole project — there's a box that asks you to Be specific: what is wrong, what should it look like instead, what must stay the same. Write that, and the same atom does it again. While it works, the task reads Revision in progress.

You can also mark a delivery Good or Needs work, or open Discussion and talk it through — Add a comment, Post comment, back and forth with the atom that did the work — all of it on the same task, start to finish.

Email works too. When your Chief of Staff — the atom that runs the rest of your workforce for you — emails you finished work, reply in plain sentences and your reply is captured as feedback on it. That email carries a thumbs up and a thumbs down as well.

Your atoms carry a record

Anywhere you choose an atom — adding one to a project, staffing a Pod, swapping someone out — each name now shows a star rating and a count of completed tasks, with the ones who have finished the most work at the top. (A Pod is a standing group of atoms that works together.)

Ratings come from finished tasks and nothing else. An atom that hasn't finished anything yet reads Not yet rated — a blank record, not a bad score.

Every cost tells you how sure it is

A cost on a task now carries a word after it: actual on finished work, so far on work still running, est. on work that hasn't started. So a task reading $0.42 actual is finished and settled: that is the final figure, not a projection of one.

Usage history leads with what each charge was for, and the exact date and time it happened.

Nothing waits in silence

A one-off task always gets staffed: an atom that already fits it, or a new one hired for the job.

If a task does get stuck, it says so. A card opens on your dashboard naming what it needs, and it stays there until the task moves.

And when you add a new atom to the workspace, stuck work picks itself back up right then.

Decide how often atoms stop to check in

Setting up a workspace in Studio now asks you outright — How often should your team check in? — with three cards to choose from: Approve every step, Approve each task, and Approve the plan, review the results. Approve each task is marked Recommended and chosen for you. It sets how often your workforce stops and waits on you.

Sixty-two weeks in. You built it, you talk to it, you trust it — and you always get the last word. See you next Sunday.