Yesterday, one of my coworkers (Senior Dir. of Research Ops) shared with me another obviously AI-generated 5 page draft of an SOP on how to reintegrate old metrics (in the legacy SQL Server environment) into the Azure SQL while keeping everything running smoothly. She's not the most technical person, so it obviously is reflected in the doc generated.

I think we will all become AI-output-reviewers eventually. Not sure how long I can keep doing this though because the volume of materials that need reviewing seems to be growing really quickly these days....

"Why couldn't customers take the requirements to the software people?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkmuI5W694o

The sooner one can find an entrypoint, the sooner one can contribute with changes.

Calls them out on their AI bs and gives a way forward to share what they actually thought.

It feels like a new age version of “that which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.” Basically, “that which can be sent without thought can be responded to without thought.”

If you want to be insulting about it, use a locally hosted "small" AI (under 6GB size on disk GGUF file, Q4 quantized or worse, so quite "stupid"), set to a high temperature value, no thinking mode, with a system prompt instructing it to fire off a rapid response in an absurdist writing style.

Joking aside. I do hate when teammates forward me screenshots of chatgpt conversations as if that was somehow going to be helpful and as if they were so smart for thinking to ask an llm to some a problem we were discussing.

Or, for the more grey haired among us:

Hello, my name is Dr. Sbaitso. I am here to help you. […] So, tell me about your problems.

“Please do not send me AI generated analysis” or “I don’t think a wall of text from Claude is helpful here.”

You say something...pause while they look at their phone...they give a response that is out of their depth, etc. The last time it happened I just up and left.

My fear is that the AI will create a new race to the bottom, where it's all we're left with because people just want to pay as little as possible in general.

But to be honest I was never especially invested in online social interaction to begin with. For years, Reddit and HN were basically the only social platforms I used, and lately I’ve mostly stopped using Reddit as well.

I do think we were fortunate to experience the age of innocence of the internet, but in my view, that era was already fading before LLMs arrived by the mega corps. LLMS just finish it of.

And it’s not LLMs to blame. LLMs just enabled smaller player to defile the internet the way Google FB and the others have been doing for years

In my neck of the woods it's fairly common that when a person doesn't know how to help you they just don't reply, instead of saying "I don't know how to help, sorry". AI-generated responses seem like the evolution of this attitude that one must either ignore or respond in a (superficially) helpful manner.

A potential solution would be to have a reputation system, with some light pageranking in it. People who care about their reputation are bound to rate other likewise people higher. I don't think such loyalty exists between vibetalkers.

It's obvious we're not alone, and 2 distinct clusters would form (with people on a spectrum in between)

I have certainly found myself using this prefix a lot lately for certain topics. I use AI a lot for researching, but sometimes I just want to really read something written by a human as it sinks in much better

Yeah, LinkedIn is a cesspool so I shouldn’t go there, but it’s jarring. And to OP’s point it happens in far more sacred places.

Key insight: the proliferation of AI-written content dilutes not just the quality of content, but our trust of GitHub as well.

AI is often right enough for most people's cases, but one in ten times it's completely off the mark.

I hope as time goes on, people who are being empty shells for AI get weeded out of the workforce.

I’m not sure I would be sad about that outcome.