CEO of an automation platform explains how he wrote a 168-page book with AI: ‘It was like a Socratic dialogue’

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Good morning. I’ve long thought of Daniel Dines as a kind of philosopher king in business. Growing up in Romania, the billionaire co-founder and CEO of UiPath wanted to be a novelist. Even after he’d created a leading platform for robotic process automation, he’d often start his day with a book, sometimes followed by a nap before turning on his computer. Whether giving advice to entrepreneurs or talking about founder mode, Dines will often insert references to writers like Friedrich Nietzsche or Jack London.

So, when I learned that Dines has written a book called The Work That Remains with Claude and ChatGPT (which you can download here), I was intrigued to find out more. It’s a book about how humans and AI will work together, with Dines outlining a model in which AI proposes, humans decide, and automation executes. It’s 168 pages, around 40,000 words, and can of course be distilled to an AI summary or a haiku. Such are the wonders of technology.

When speaking to Dines, I was less interested in his conclusion than how he arrived at it through AI. “It was really like a Socratic dialogue,” he told me, with each session........

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