Dead corporation theory.
I remember the initial Google Workspace Gemini ads showing someone writing an email from a few bullet points and blowing it up to pages of text. Then another scene in the same ad has a user summarize pages of text into bullet points.
This is by far the worst and most expensive inverse-compression system ever.
I have never corresponded to another human with an AI response, I think just going through the process of doing that is the most fucking embarrassing thing you could do.
At work people have started just pasting AI responses into slack threads. PR review comments are also entirely AI written. I can understand having your AI review your code before you share with others for review (I would rather a bot point out my stupid bugs/typos instead of wasting someone else’s time on them), but if you are reviewing something YOU need to review it.
I’m also getting annoyed because one guy keeps submitting entirely AI written PRs. They’re awful. Too many comments that say nothing, they don’t match our code styles, there are obvious refactors that would make the whole thing cleaner and more readable. It’s just fucking lazy and a waste of time to keep telling him to fix it, because by the time I point out all the issues I could have just rewritten it myself.
I get A.I. to rewrite some emails to be “more professional” because I’m not good at corpo speak, then I dial it back 20%. I used to just write emails normally but I got in trouble for that. Now I can remotely trick people into thinking I’m neurotypical. It’s the only helpful use case I’ve found in my life. Ideally I’d be allowed to write emails in the same natural tone I wrote this comment, but we don’t live in an ideal world unfortunately
Ha, I had a manager like that. After support relayed a customer ticket to him: “tell the customer he is an idiot! We have a fucking export function for all his data! If he wants a custom bullshit report with is corporate style, he can import it into Excel and do it himself! Tell him that, but in a more professional tone.”
Bestest IT manager ever.
You’re probably fine because you dial it back 20%; you put effort in and make sure what you’re trying to communicate gets communicated.
That’s more than I’m getting from some people.
Yeah by default the A.I. will write some really weird stuff… I remember once I had to write to my ex’s lawyers, and it was weirdly aggressive. It reminded me of the script from a Phoenix Wright game, making baseless accusations just to offend them or something, inventing new laws that they were in breach of… I’m like ok let’s just delete all that haha no way do I want that read out loud in court. But the rest of it had decent bones, it used the lawyer-y words that I always forget about
It’s good to remember the models are trained on basically all of reddit, including the sov-cit and wannabe lawyer ones.
Yep, that’s it. What a waste.
My hypothesis is that the least competent people use AI the most, and it’s a big multiplier on their incompetence.
This is why government LOVES AI.
Also the ones whose bosses give them incentives (or direct ordered).
I do not think you’re wrong.
Initial studies have found that AI generally helps either the top performers or the bottom performers of a job/profession. If it helps the top the most, it usually means that the person has to know enough on how to use the AI tools and correct known issues. If it helps the bottom the most, switch fields since it is likely that the AI is going to push your role into whomever is cheapest.
Attention is all you need? The modern world demands more attention than anyone has. Our attention was colonized by social media, shadow work (in the economic rather than Jung sense), and the constantly changing software, portals, and platforms that interacting with the corpos/gov require. So attention was automated (albeit poorly). And while it’s not news, it’s increasingly apparent to everyone that how we focus our attention is a significant part of who we are.
