We've been playing with chat gpt and gpt-3 in recent days and weeks to refine our sales pitch, generate variations of text for our website, etc. It saves a lot of time when you can just take your rough notes and turn it into a perfectly smooth and readable paragraph instantly. It does not replace what we do but it does speed up the process enormously. We can iterate faster on our drafts, use AI generated mockups to enliven our pitch, etc. We've barely scratched the surface of what we can do with this.

There are lots of people obsessing about feeling threatened in what they do by all this. It's an understandable response but not necessarily a productive attitude. It's really just an opportunity to reconsider what it is you do exactly and become better and more efficient at that. Perhaps if you spend most of your time trying to produce slides, designs, etc., freeing up some of that time for more high value activities is not such a bad thing and something that you should have been striving to do anyway. In our case, using our refined pitch to drive sales is what we should be doing. Spending time to refine the pitch is a necessary evil and not the main thing we should do or even want to do. So, this is an enabler not a threat for us.

I'm actually a CTO; so me spending time on sales pitches is not the most obvious use of my time. But in a small startup, if something needs doing, I probably need to be involved. So, anything that makes that more efficient is more than welcome.