To be clear, NotebookLM has its own issues, and is built for a specific use case (research and analysis of sources) but it is an example of …

To be clear, NotebookLM has its own issues, and is built for a specific use case (research and analysis of sources) but it is an example of how a UX might actually operate that treats knowledge work seriously: it doesn’t treat the only goal as outputs, it exposes processes, too. A fundamental problem with extending Codex/Cowork/Code to all knowledge work is that they remain very "software-brained" where the end result (the software) is what is important & that code serves as a source of truth. For a lot of other knowledge work, the process is at least as…

Source: Ethan Mollick (X) | 2026-07-11