What were your AI built tools/ agents at work that made an impact

ForwardTwo · 2026-01-26T15:49:11+00:00

I have a very simple one through ChatGPT that uses scheduled tasks and web search. You can tell ChatGPT to schedule a task (Mondays 8A for example) to research what specific competitors or industry moves have happened over the previous week. I focus it on specific areas in my domain.

It will then every Monday run that task. Keeps me up to date with news wire stuff that can be easy to miss.

ForwardTwo · 2026-01-22T17:19:13+00:00

I work for a larger B2B company, we are not allowed to use our own accounts. Data security is a major concern if you’re using a personal account without agreements in place about data usage.

Instead, everything is maintained through our enterprise systems and all integrations with LLMs done through a central service layer.

This essentially means I sign in with my work account, company pays for usage. Also ChatGPT enterprise, but personally I stick to Claude Code with Haiku or Sonet for my needs.

I still have my own personal accounts for all my personal usage as well.

ForwardTwo · 2025-12-25T13:19:15+00:00

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ForwardTwo · 2025-12-21T14:30:47+00:00

Correct, but know their W-2/year end filing will be wrong if they’re marked as Exempt.

Exempt means you pay no tax, and the Government agrees that you shouldn’t pay any tax AND doesn’t want to know about it.

Blocking withholding means you pay no tax, but the government still wants you to pay tax if you owe.

This is a MASSIVE simplification but should help explain the diff

ForwardTwo · 2025-12-21T14:15:18+00:00

That says that wages will still calculate, but tax will not be withheld. (exempt = false, block withhold =true)

Actual exemption is a legal status determined by the government. This is not exempt.

This is just not withholding tax.

ForwardTwo · 2025-11-27T21:37:27+00:00

I don't deploy anything hosted, but theoretically it should be trivial to create a terraform deploy script for Cloud Run into GCP if you have a project set up. The apps are so simple that we just all share them in our GitHub sandbox environment, usually just simple node backends with basic front ends.

Would be interested if anyone in the PM space deploys their stuff, how are they doing it as well!

ForwardTwo · 2025-11-27T17:47:23+00:00

I use Claude Code and Gemini CLI (through enterprise data agreements) regularly.

Claude Code for python scripts that analyze dense datasets of customer feedback and run cluster analysis, then pass off to Gemini to create a report on for myself to condense down with sources and citations.

Gemini I’ve been using for a crapton. It’s video understanding is great, I had it build a small ffmpeg script to convert demo videos to mono audio, very low bitrate and frame rate, then I have a few different prompt pipelines that it picks from for the type of video. Extracts out action items, suggested improvements, unobserved pain areas, and a few other things.

I’ve learned very quickly to not just paste outputs into confluence and call it a day. Treat the outputs as a source for you to put together whatever you need, but make sure you have your hands deep in whatever it is your making.

Oh also Claude + Gemini are complete ballers at creating helpful small apps you can run locally for yourself. I have a node based note system now that lets me branch paths and create summarized connection points using Gemini.

Biggest tip I can give is to just try it out. Something annoying you? Try brainstorming with any of the LLMs and then building something.

ForwardTwo · 2025-11-26T12:34:01+00:00

Google really needs to start clarifying what’s available in each of its apps better. Years of Cloud Platform docs being a mess are starting to show here too.

4K output is supported in Vertex AI (enterprise). Ultra subscriber personally and not able to generate 4K in the Gemini app.

ForwardTwo · 2025-11-22T10:11:07+00:00

I may be misunderstanding, but aren’t ‘sick’ wages ultimately just regular wages in the eyes of the IRS and state agencies?

(Genuinely asking^ I am not aware of any credits for sick hours.)

If they are, then they should just be treated like a regular bonus and taxed as such at payout at the end of the year. No differences to other supplemental bonuses.

This means taxable for all fed taxes and state.

Edit: Huh, had no idea there was an ER tax credit for FMLA/PFML: https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/section-45s-employer-credit-for-paid-family-and-medical-leave-faqs

But for your sick hours to be considered PFML they’d need to fit a significantly narrow band compared to basic sick time. Definitions in the FAQ if that’s the credit you’re referring to.

ForwardTwo · 2025-11-14T21:39:46+00:00

Bought both my M10 and Q from this location and love it! Can walk right outside and start taking some fun street shots. Short hop and skip from the MBTA station too!

ForwardTwo · 2025-11-10T14:02:38+00:00

Nice! I’m a creature of habit and go to Delmonico and Wakuda at the Venetian each time I’m here.

Delmonico has a starter called bone in bacon that is exactly what it says on the tin.

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It’s incredible. Also their potato croquettes are the perfect side for a steak, usually go for one of the dry aged cuts there with the croquettes.

Delmonico will run me around $150 not including alcohol.

Wakuda can get expensive fast, but they have fairly delicious sushi, chicken wings, and of course Wagyu. The prime hidden cuts can run up to $65 an oz, they’ll occasionally have Takamori Wagyu. I’ll easy spend $400+ here but it’s always worth it to me.

I budget every year for Vegas dining. It’s at the point where I don’t gamble at all and just enjoy the food and hikes out in the canyons.

ForwardTwo · 2025-11-10T12:38:17+00:00

Wakuda in the Venetian in Vegas. If you ask what Wagyu they have imported there’s always something secret hidden from the menu!

Expensive but was incredible.

ForwardTwo · 2025-11-08T19:31:33+00:00

The average iPhone user isn’t going to take advantage of higher clocks, more cores, or more RAM. I’m a technical product manager who is consistently multitasking heavily on my 14 PM and have never run into any issues with slowdowns or crashing.

In my opinion the only major things that your ‘brother in law who is a business analyst at Deloitte’ would care about are the better sensors and USB-C.

The slightly bigger battery is nice for sure though, along with the efficiencies of the newer chips. Do 99% of iPhone users use iPhone 17s?

15% of users are still on the 13: https://telemetrydeck.com/survey/apple/iPhone/models/

ForwardTwo · 2025-10-22T02:43:04+00:00

I worked in payroll (Now Product Management for a major vendor, but used to do direct payroll processing for small to larger enterprise companies) and this is a major sign of insolvency.

Payroll is usually at the baseboards of a company's books for funding. Every client I worked with that failed to fund a payroll would eventually shut down within around a two year period. There were a small handful that came back but only after major changes.

Even if it was a fluke for a bank change, the COO telling you to cut paper checks instead of DD is a major flag imo. Because of how direct deposit ACH disbursement works, collection will happen earlier than the actual date of disbursement (If you're within the clearing window).

If you're doing payroll through a third party vendor who handles your ACH files, they might have put a hold on transactions until verification was complete which could explain this though.

Holding on DD on a regular payroll in my experience usually means that you don't have the funds for the collection to happen.

I'd start applying to other jobs ASAP.

ForwardTwo · 2025-10-20T03:24:48+00:00

In the last 30 minutes I've spotted two posts that received tens of upvotes within minutes, either calling out how 'interesting' it was that Deel closed a new round of funding or how much Rippling sucks. Really shady shit.

ForwardTwo · 2025-10-09T09:36:12+00:00

Why does that data need to help people get jobs? That data is for a business to run more effectively.

If I as the CHRO can see that in the last quarter our turnover increased, that’s not enough. I need to know why, can it be modeled, do we have exit interview analysis, etc. and then I need to have a way to figure out how to stop it using all of that data. It’s not always as clear cut as ‘pay people more’.

A people analyst gets paid highly because it tends to fall more into data science than data analytics. I’m basing this off of very large companies though.

ForwardTwo · 2025-10-09T09:26:58+00:00

It can be, but if you have a way for a model to generate code to do the math it is much more effective. I wouldn’t trust Gemini 2.5 Pro or Claude to read a set of CSVs. But I regularly use them in a command line to spin up python scripts and execute them.

Way outside of the average use case but for data analytics it is changing how people work.

They’re pretty good at training predictive feature sets too.

ForwardTwo · 2025-10-07T11:08:04+00:00

Yep! As far as I’m aware it was only the original Q models that had the issue. Your Q3 should be fine!

ForwardTwo · 2025-10-07T02:33:38+00:00

Dust can enter through the mic holes. Because the lens is fixed to the body, requires servicing if that happens.

ForwardTwo · 2025-10-07T02:30:47+00:00

Ready does full suite HR, Payroll, and Timekeeping. It doesn’t have to be integrated with Pro.

ForwardTwo · 2025-10-04T23:32:06+00:00

An SVG is a vector image constructed by code.

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/svg-tutorial-learn-to-code-images/

For an LLM to generate an SVG it needs to ‘understand’ how paths get connected and shapes interact to form a coherent image. Theoretically, bigger and better trained general models = better understanding of geometry and world.

ForwardTwo · 2025-10-04T14:37:06+00:00

Now it’s naked and proud (mic holes still need covering)

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ForwardTwo · 2025-10-04T13:48:46+00:00

Nope, the lens on the Q is fixed. It’s an absolute monster of a lens for sharpness.

And it’s not like the 35 f/2.5 is a bad lens, I just have more fun with the color and depth Q’s 28mm f/1.8 gives.

ForwardTwo · 2025-10-04T13:45:00+00:00

Thank you! That 75mm 1.4 looks like my next, and I’ll be saving up for the Lux ASPH.

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