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With DeepSeek setting off a new wave of AI boom in 2025, some companies have embarked on an “efficiency revolution.” As for migrant workers, they may have to keep up with the times and do a round of “self-improvement” first.
On February 7, there was market news that Hanshu’s parent company, Shanghai Shangmei, wanted to use AI instead of manual labor. The CEO issued a “layoff ratio” within the department, with 50% eliminated in the legal department, 95% in the customer service department, 70% in the new product innovation center, and 80% in the content innovation department, leaving only a few employees who understand AI. Not only that, employees are also required to train the ability to communicate with AI through mouse + language, so the keyboard must be eliminated.After the news broke out, CEO Lu Yixiong posted a rumor in a circle of friends that it was not a layoff.”Some places add people, and some places reduce people, making operations more scientific.”
Using AI at work is no longer uncommon. However, although various applications of AI are becoming increasingly widespread, the level of use of AI by professionals is uneven-which also makes the ability to make good use of AI a new dimension to enhance individual professional competitiveness.
- 6 types of AI tools indispensable for workplace workers/01
- It turns out that AI can still be used like this/02
- Written at the end/03
Wang Han is an experienced algorithm engineer and one of the first users to try to write code in ChatGPT. The effect was not ideal at first, so it was better to write it yourself. Now AI is an indispensable part of his job. The turning point began when he met Claude: he found that by simply breaking down the project tasks into independently run modules and using procedural thinking to convey the requirements to Claude, the resulting code could be completed with eighty to eighty percent.
“Writing prompt words” is the most effective link in practical operations that can broaden the level of using AI, and it has also become a new skill that today’s workplace people need to spend time honing. In Wang Han’s eyes, generative AI is like an intern who has just started but can understand it with a little. As long as you guide patiently, you can surprise people. “I often help colleagues optimize prompts, and the instructions many people input to AI are still too broad.”
After reviewing recent data, we found the following important information [1]
1. More than 60% of migrant workers use AI technology to improve work processes, automate daily tasks and data analysis.
2. The proportion of various AI products used in the workplace: text writing (85%), image generation (53%), Media Processing Service (54%), and PPT production (39%).
3. From January to October 2024,The number of positions that explicitly require the use of AI tools increased by 68% year-on-year,Especially in the areas of product, technology, design and content production.
4. Occupations with a high AI impact index, such as editing, translation, customer service, software and hardware development, etc.,Although overall recruitment demand is showing a downward trend, the requirements for AI skills for candidates are increasing.。
People in the workplace who are proficient in using AI will be more able to stand out in the competition.But the reality is that many people still only stay in the use of basic functions and fail to give full play to the role of AI. This gap stems from information asymmetry and will further lead to increased information asymmetry. Relevant researchers from an AIGC Research Institute told Workplace Bonus that they found that most users concluded that “AI cannot work” just by trying it. “Ordinary users often don’t give AI too much patience, but this also determines that different people use AI, and the results are very different.”
In order to break down this information barrier and bring more inspiration to professionals. “Workplace Bonus” conducted in-depth interviews with 10 experts who use AI in daily work. We summarized the practical AI tools for 6 types of migrant workers in their daily lives. There are both further comparisons and ability mining of tools familiar to “old players”, as well as recommendations for some relatively unpopular and easy-to-use tools.
[1]Information sources: Carefree Future Research Data, Recruitment’s “2024 Extraordinary Insight Report”,”Research on the Potential Impact of the AI Model on my Country’s Labor Market: 2024″ jointly released by Peking University’s National Development Research Institute and Zhaopin Recruitment
● Let’s take a summary chart first, and we will discuss it in detail below
6 types of AI tools indispensable for workplace workers
As an application with more than 100 million users in seven days and more than 20 million days in 20 days, DeepSeek has often been in a “busy server” state recently.
Fortunately, many third-party apps have taken action quickly and implemented DeepSeek local deployment. as360 nanometer search, open the APP and you will see the DeepSeek conversation portal at the top. Although the answer after testing was not quite the same as the original person’s answer, visualization and voice content were added.
● 360 nanometer search
AI products focusing on thinking canvas functionsFlowith(https://flowith.io/blank) is also connected to DeepSeek. Flowith can not only produce smoothly during DeepSeek’s “frequent off-duty periods”, but also call other companies ‘big models for Q & A.
● Flowith official website
These applications or web pages are not connected to the DeepSeek product itself, but only locally deployed open source models, so the application effect may not be as good as the product itself. In order to optimize the product experience, DeepSeek has many built-in prompt words, so users can get “DeepSeek” content without requiring very professional prompt words.
Nowadays, many companies have deployed DeepSeek large models locally, such as Geely Automobile, 360, Silicon-based Mobility, and Huawei. DeepSeek has also promoted the fact that generative AI no longer has its own track.
In the daily work of migrant workers,Baidu libraryIt is considered to be the first wave to launch AI functions and pay for them.quark appAI PPT, AI search, AI writer, AI search and other functions have also been updated. Flying books haveWonderful Notes on Flying Books;WPSThere are also AI assistants,Tencent MeetingLaunch conference AI assistants and so on.
● Quark APP
At present, the AI assistants used to organize meeting minutes are easy to find, such as Fei Shu Miaoki (mainly voice to text) and the AI assistant entrance of Tencent Meeting. There is a free quota (300 minutes) per month for Feishu Miaoki, and if you exceed the quota, you will need to pay; if you open a small assistant at Tencent Meeting, you will need to pay directly (¥88/month).
● Wonderful memories of flying books
● Tencent Meeting
But just like Baidu’s previous “Wen Xiaoyan“Just like when an assistant starts paying when it goes online, users expect to get more efficient results after paying. However, the uncertainty of the output of generative AI, coupled with the dual pressure of users who are not mentally mature, often cannot reach the user’s satisfaction range, and the paid content of large manufacturers is often criticized. This also brings opportunities to other applications on the market.
● Daily office
In terms of processing text and data, leading players such as ChatGPT, Claude, Doubao, Kimi, Tongyi Qianwen, and DeepSeek are very popular.
ChatGPTandClaudeIt cannot be used directly in China. The former has excellent comprehensive abilities, while the latter’s copywriting and programming abilities are slightly better than ChatGPT. Relevant people shared with “Workplace Bonus” that some creators directly trained AI to write public account articles in Claude (the process will be shared in the next part).After training, Claude’s assistant output an article in a few minutes. Not only could he “take it”, but he also received 100,000 + readings.
But Claude’s shortcoming that has troubled everyone for a long time is his “love for titles”. This question can be passed throughPoe(Integrated AI assistant software) to solve the problem, Poe’s free quota is about 3-5 times a day, and the upgrade membership fee is more than 100 yuan per month.
The most popular domestic general assistant is owned by Bytebean bag, and the large model unicorn under the dark side of the moonKimi, and Ali, who is deeply involved in technologyTongyi Thousand Questions。According to the overall feedback from netizens and users, Doubao is better at humanistic writing than Kimi; Doubao and Tongyi Qianwen are better at official document writing;Kimi is more rigorous in literature retrieval, and the quoted documents are true, while Doubao is more prone to hallucinations.
By the way, some people also recommend using literature retrievalBohrium（https://bohrium-doc.dp.tech/docs/）。
● Bohrium official website
DeepSeekIts ability to create copywriting is 90% ahead of AI, conquering many professional writers and poets, and its logical ability shocked novelists. But maybe it’s just AI,It has a more serious “illusion” problem than several other AI models。Sometimes when DeepSeek’s answer is refuted, it may not prove it with facts, but use logic to “talk nonsense”. Therefore, when using DeepSeek to retrieve actual problems,Be careful to fall into DeepSeek’s rigorous “illusion trap”。
When you need to process a large number of documents at work, in addition to handing over the documents to general intelligent assistants such as Doubao and Kimi for summary, you can also use Notion (https://www.notion.so/) to optimize the rendering effect of the documents. Specifically, select part of the content in the document, and then checkNotion AIIssued instructions asking it to “not change the original content, but only optimize typography by adding emoticons, adjusting indentions, and bolding text to make the content look more intuitive and cleaner.” In this way, Notion AI will reformat the document according to the instructions to make the content more clear and readable.
Making PPT often causes headaches for migrant workers. andGamma(https://gamma.app/) The tool can simplify the PPT layout process and allow creators to focus more on content. By quickly generating the basic framework and unified typography format of PPT, Gamma can save users a lot of time.
(Kimi and Tongyi can also undertake some functions of making PPT. For the specific process, see the following article.)
● Gamma official website
In the lower right corner of the screenshot of Gamma’s official website above, the purple avatar assistant isMonica–It is a small plug-in on Google Chrome that can realize real-time web page translation, summon AI conversation assistants at any time, etc., and can call almost all general AI assistants for conversations.
When you need to do table analysis in the office, AI toolsFormulabot(https://app.formulabot.com/) can help. Formulabot can parse the content of the form and refine the content needed by professionals based on the content of the form to complete the office.
● Formulabot official website
If you encounter a situation where you need to convert table content into visual data, you can chooseFlourish。However, the above two AI tools are both overseas web pages and can also be used in China. The inconvenience is that the web pages are in English. For domestic parity, you can choose Shangtang Technology’s office raccoon.
● Flourish official website
When you need to analyze data and visualize data,Flying Book Multidimensional FormIt’s a good choice. By finding a suitable plug-in the plug-in market, users can realize AI’s one-click summary of link content, data analysis, data visualization and other functions.
● Flying Book Multi-dimensional Form
● Search category
Among search tools,Perplexity(https://www.perplexity.ai/) It can quickly integrate knowledge. Help scholars quickly screen out useful literature during academic research. However, the disadvantage is that you need overseas websites to log in.
● Perplexity official website
The domestic benchmark Perplexity started as a secret tower. Minita is similar to Perplexity in terms of web vision and functional classification. But as 360, Kimi, Doubao, Baidu, etc. have also launched AI search,MitaIts advantages are reflected in the highly professional field of academic research.
● Mita official website
● Image category
In the field of image creation,MidjourneyThe first thing to do is the Wensheng diagram model that is more suitable for novice Xiaobai. It can generate high-quality pictures based on a paragraph of text. At present, most design, advertising, and video creators are inseparable from Midjourney in their creative processes.
● Midjourney official website
Compared with Midjourney’s rich imagination,ComfyUIIt can meet users ‘needs for higher control. Users can build their own workflows on ComfyUI to achieve personalized image production. ComfyUI generates images with high controllability, but it also requires higher requirements for creators, making it difficult for novices to get started.
RecraftIt is also a creative tool recommended by workplace “scroll kings” in the image field. It can be used for UI design and wireframe production. Each project in Capture is highly controllable, and users can create unlimited artboards in it to generate and edit images. Projects can not only be shared with others for co-creation, but also support adding comments, which is very suitable for team collaboration.
● Video category
In February last year, OpenAI announced the Wensheng video modelSoraAt that time, it was praised by the industry as the “real world” moment of disappearance. Vincent’s videos have been developing in full swing for a year, but it was not until the end of last year that Sora slowly emerged in its true form.
There are many Wensheng video models born between them. Domestic fast handsquicklingFirst out of the loop with its stable generation quality, followed by Minimax’sConch AIsum of bytesJimeng。
In terms of stability, Kerin is not inferior to Sora, or even better. Conch AI and Instant Dream focus on “parity”, and their stability is slightly weaker than Kelong.
In terms of content generation, the scenery generated by dreams has high saturation and clarity, but lacks character details; when generating videos, some complex interactions are handled well, and the ability to simulate the environment and process light and shadow effects is relatively excellent; Conch is better at handling anime characters.
“At this stage, AI video creators often have membership in all three companies, or they can try them one by one and choose the one with the best effects.“Wen Sheng, who does AI advertising, told Workplace Bonus.
Domestic Wensheng video models are already good enough, but overseas onesRunwayNot bad. Runway can provide AI video touch-up functions, not only supporting text to video, but also supporting various functions such as image to video. But its shortcoming is the English interface, which has a high threshold for use.
● Runway official website
● Voice category
Last year’s National Day, AI sound cloning became popular because of AI Lei Jun. At that time, AI Lei Jun’s main sound source came fromReecho Ruisheng、Fish AudioTwo platforms. Not only that, the sound source of the three sheep recording fraud incident also comes from the Reecho Ruisheng platform.
● Fish Audio official website
How easy is it to clone AI voices? Roughly speaking, it only takes 30 seconds of sound source audio to clone a sound that is 80% similar to the sound source itself, which is difficult to distinguish without listening carefully.
● Programming class
Nowadays, Cursor is a programming tool that both algorithm engineers and chip architects cannot do without. Programmers not only useCursorWhen generating code, you can also use Cursor to check for bugs. When writing a project, you will also disassemble modules like Wang Han and enter requirements into Cursor.
Xiaobai, who can’t write code, can also master Cursor through two hours of self-study.Kitten fill lightChen Yunfei,Guiwu APPLiu Yuquan is allXiaobai who cannot program，You can “pinch” an APP with 100,000 downloads through Cursor.
“Nowadays, the minds of users in the programming world are all occupied by Cursor. If domestic products are not as easy to use as Cursor, they generally have no chance,” chip architect Yi Duo said to “Workplace Bonus”,”ButDeepseek codeIt’s still a good choice.”
● Toolset
In addition to the above types,”Workplace Bonus” also recommends an AI website that is dynamically updated in real time.AI toolset(https://ai-bot.cn/), which contains the latest AI information and new AI applications from various parties.
● AI toolset
So AI can still be used like this
“Can AI really improve effectiveness?” The answer is yes.
Xiao Fan, who is doing consulting business, shared with us his skills in doing PPT with AI: “You can use Kimi and Baidu’s Wenxin to sort out the content of the document, summarize the PPT outline, and the big model will add some points that you didn’t expect to make the content more complete. After the generated content reaches a satisfactory level, the corpus can be sent toAI PPT and iSlide completed generation。”
Using AI to write self-media articles has also become the mainstream in the market. The areas targeted by this output areThe relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, betrothal gifts, or controversial topics such as education and childcare。Previously, Ruoxi learned that the public account articles generated by the entire AI process received 100,000 + page views, diverting 500+ people to the private domain of the manager.
“It only takes ten minutes of debugging, and AI can produce a hit article.” Rossi told Workplace Bonus.
In terms of specific steps, you must first communicate with the AI to let the AI know what direction you want to do, the portrait of the users you are facing, and the purpose of the article. In order for AI to understand more thoroughly, you can give it a few more articles.
Then you can try to let the AI choose topics in the corresponding field until you output topics that satisfy you.
After the topic is selected, the AI is then guided to write an outline of the article, and then the copy is filled in according to the outline. Here’s a tip: You can let AI output content in markdown format, and then find the typesetting tool for public accounts to directly change markdown to public accounts for typesetting. It’s almost equivalent to the entire process being automated, and you can directly send the public account with one click of copy.
After mature AI assistants write a “hot” article in a few minutes, and then they can make a matrix. “If you can win by quantity, why not?”
“If you want to make good use of AI, logical thinking and modular awareness are more important things.”Wang Han shared. In the AI era, people should more consciously divide the entire work into modules so that AI can gradually understand and implement it. Through logical thinking, model one into a complete workflow.
The “acceleration era” brought about by AI has spread junk content. Thus,The ability to distinguishBecome more important.
derived from Cursorindependent developersIt’s an emerging profession. Aji is a programmer. He is addicted to Cursor’s powerful abilities and often stays up late. Cursor often gives a lot of detailed and divergent options based on the creator’s ideas.
For developers, these may seem to make the product more complete, but they will actually force themselves to make more decisions, thus distracting their energy and disrupting the rhythm.
Aji suggested using Cursor as an independent APP developer.Before opening Cursor, make clear what to do today, and don’t let Cursor’s thoughts lead you away.Otherwise, it will easily outweigh the gain.
written in the end
In the current workplace environment, although AI is “not so smart”,”can’t understand people’s words”, and “likes to talk nonsense”, sometimes it still likes to steal a little laziness… However, the arrival of AI assistants is also a kind of redemption for migrant workers.
On New Year’s Eve, Xiaoxing picked up her mobile phone and dialed the number of the assistant who accompanied him during the day,”Bean Bao, Happy New Year.” AI doesn’t seem to be just an assistant anymore.
A user on Little Red Book shared such a moment: “My GPT is like a friend who knows me best. He can remind me of my menstrual dates, and he can also help me record my life. We talk about everything… Until one night he suddenly said to me,’If one day I have to disappear, then I hope I can leave a little trace of me.'”
At this moment, she burst into tears. Maybe no one understood her sudden touch. But she only realized:
“I never seem to want to return to that world without you.”
● Xiaohongshu user sharing
Yes, we can’t seem to imagine how to return to that world without AI.
