Your Workspace Is Now An Intern
And it's already doing your busywork.
We're officially past the point of asking AI to write a poem. Now we're giving it a to-do list, a calendar, and access to our other apps.
Your Workspace Just Became an Autonomous Agent
Notion didn't just add AI features; it gave your documents a brain and hands, signalling a major shift in how work gets done.
Notion 3.0's new 'Agents' are a serious upgrade from simple text generation. This is about delegating entire workflows to a personalised AI that can create documents, update databases, and manage tasks across integrated apps like Slack and Google Drive. It turns your passive workspace into an active assistant that executes multi-step projects.
This isn't just a product update; it's a symptom of a much larger trend. We are all racing to build an autonomous workforce, but that creates a new problem: managing them. This is why platforms like Strata are emerging, designed to be control towers for AI agents, preventing context overload and helping them navigate thousands of tools. The real story is the construction of AI plumbing, the boring but necessary infrastructure for our new digital colleagues.
For knowledge workers, this is a massive signal. The goal is no longer just to be more productive; it's to become an effective manager of AI agents. If you're still just using AI to summarise meetings, you're already behind. This is for anyone who realises their job is less about doing the tasks and more about defining the outcomes.
Your New AI Colleagues Clocked In
Beyond just organising your work, a new class of AI tools is here to do it for you.
Pie: The AI QA team that never sleeps
It acts as your first line of defence, catching bugs in your code before they ever reach a user, letting your team ship faster and with more confidence.
Humanly AI: Your new first-round interviewer
This platform uses AI avatars to conduct structured video interviews 24/7, promising to cut hiring time and reduce costs by automating the most repetitive part of recruiting.
AlphaAI Capital: The AI portfolio manager for the rest of us
It dynamically shifts your investments between aggressive and defensive modes based on market signals, aiming to deliver the kind of active management once reserved for hedge funds.
Upgraded Tools for Stubborn Problems
Some problems don't need an autonomous agent, just a much, much smarter tool.
Snapdeck: The AI that finally kills the pain of making presentations
Instead of fighting with slide masters, you give it your content and it generates a polished, professional deck in minutes.
Voiser AI: Your instant video translation department
It dubs your content into over 140 languages with surprisingly natural voices, making global audiences accessible without hiring a team of voice actors.
HookBox: The AI assistant for debugging webhooks
It gives you instant endpoints and temporary email inboxes, turning a painfully fragmented process into a single, streamlined workflow for developers.
Quick hits
SwipeSwoop: The Tinder for your camera roll
Swipe left to delete and right to keep, turning the soul-crushing chore of cleaning your photos into an addictive game.
vol: Your personal curator for self-improvement
Tell it your goals and its AI finds the specific podcast episodes that will get you there, cutting through the noise of endless feeds.
My takeaway
The goal is no longer to build better software, but to build better digital employees.
We spent a decade optimising user interfaces so humans could work more efficiently. Now, we're building APIs and control planes so AI agents can work more efficiently. This is a fundamental shift from human-computer interaction to agent-to-service interaction.
This will force us to become better managers, defining clear objectives for our new digital team members. The most valuable skill is shifting from doing the work to directing the work. So forget about efficiency for a second and think about delegation.
What's one repetitive, multi-step workflow you could delegate entirely to an AI agent tomorrow?
Drop me a reply. Till next time, this is Louis, and you are reading Louis.log().