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You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here

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Re: You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here

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Post by trod1234 »

pravj wrote: post #180
Sharlin wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately that seems to be the norm now – people literally reduce themselves to a copy-paste mechanism.

This resonates a lot with some observations I drafted last week about "AI Slop" at the workplace. Overall, people are making a net-negative contribution by not having a sense of when to review/filter the responses generated by AI tools, because either (i) someone else is required to make that additional effort, or (ii) the problem is not solved properly. This sounds similar to a few patterns I noted - The average len…

There's a growing body of evidence that AI is damaging people, aside from the obvious slop related costs to review (as a resource attack).

I've seen colleagues that were quite good at programming when we first met, and over time have become much worse with the only difference being they were forced to use AI on a regular basis. I'm of the opinion that the distorted reflected appraisal mechanism it engages through communication and the inconsistency it induces is particularly harmful, and as such the undisclosed use of AI to any third-party without their consent is gross negligence if not directly malevolent.

https://fortune.com/2025/08/26/ai-overreliance-doctor-proced...

Re: You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here

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Post by jkubicek »

henrebotha wrote: post #273
treesknees wrote: post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’d love to know what your genuine motivation is. Is it a desire to genuinely improve projects? Because I’ve always had the impression that people who do this just want to boost their PR counts and GitHub activity numbers.

Genuinely, I am trying to improve things. Making documentation more readable has a real cascading positive effect. Of course, most of these PRs are tiny — just a word or two — but that means it takes me almost no time to submit them, so the ROI is still positive. One of the most enraging things to me is when a text search of documentation fails because the word I'm searching for has been misspelled in a key place. Th…

> I'm also just a stickler for good style. It bums me out when people misuse heading levels. Heading level is not a font size markup!

I want to start a company with you and mandate all documents use appropriate styles.

Re: You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here

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Post by Timsky »

badgersnake wrote: post #18
dansmith1919 wrote: post #12

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At some point they told ChatGPT to put emoji's everywhere which is also a dead giveaway on the original report that it's AI. They're the new em dash.

Some people actually do that on Github too. Absolute psychopaths.

Here is a damn example: https://gist.github.com/BlueNexus/599962d03a1b52a8d5f595dabd...

Re: You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here

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Post by VladVladikoff »

miroljub wrote: post #43
misnome wrote: post #6

I wonder where the balance of “Actual time saved for me” vs “Everyone else's time wasted” lies in this technological “revolution”.

Wasting time for others is a net positive, meaning jobs won't be lost, since some human individual still needs to make sense out of AI generated rubbish.

Isn’t curl open source? I was under the impression that they are all working volunteer. This isn’t a net positive. It will burn out the good willed programmers and be a net negative on OSS.

Re: You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here

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Post by AlexandrB »

pravj wrote: post #180
Sharlin wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately that seems to be the norm now – people literally reduce themselves to a copy-paste mechanism.

This resonates a lot with some observations I drafted last week about "AI Slop" at the workplace. Overall, people are making a net-negative contribution by not having a sense of when to review/filter the responses generated by AI tools, because either (i) someone else is required to make that additional effort, or (ii) the problem is not solved properly. This sounds similar to a few patterns I noted - The average len…

> - The average length of documents and emails has increased.

Brevity is the soul of wit. Unfortunately, many people think more is better.

Re: You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here

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Post by AJ007 »

pravj wrote: post #180
Sharlin wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately that seems to be the norm now – people literally reduce themselves to a copy-paste mechanism.

This resonates a lot with some observations I drafted last week about "AI Slop" at the workplace. Overall, people are making a net-negative contribution by not having a sense of when to review/filter the responses generated by AI tools, because either (i) someone else is required to make that additional effort, or (ii) the problem is not solved properly. This sounds similar to a few patterns I noted - The average len…

This is the bull case for AI, as with any significant advance in technology eventually you have no choice but to use it. In this case, the only way to filter through large volumes of AI output is going to be with other LLM models.

The exponential growth of compute and data continues..

As a side note, if anyone I'm communicating with - personally or in business - sends responses that sound like they were written by ChatGPT 3.5, 4o, GPT-5-low, etc, I don't take anything they write seriously anymore.

Re: You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here

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Post by b112 »

xpe wrote: post #281
goalieca wrote: post #272

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Just try to challenge and mentor people on not using it because it’s incapable of the job and wasting all our time when the mandate from down high is to use more of it.

Seems to me like people have to push back more directly with a collective effort; otherwise the incentives are all wrong.

What I don't get, is why people think this action has value. The maintainer of the project could ask an LLM to do that. A senior dev.

I can't imagine Googling for something, seeing someone on (for example) stackoverflow commenting on code, and then filing a bug to the maintainer. And just copy and pasting what someone else said, into the bug report.

All without even comprehending the code, the project, or even running into the issue yourself. Or even running a test case yourself. Or knowing the codebase.

It's just all so absurd.

I remember in Asimov's Empire series of books, at one point a scientist wanted to study something. Instead of going to study whatever it was, say... a bug, the scientist looked at all scientific studies and papers over 10000 years, weighed the arguments, and pronounced what the truth was. All without just, you know, looking and studying the bug. This was touted as an example of the Empire's decay.

I hope we aren't seeing the same thing. I can so easily see kids growing up with AI in their bluetooth ears, or maybe a neuralink, and never having to make a decision -- ever.

I recall how Google became a crutch to me. How before Google I had to do so much more work, just working with software. Using manpages, or looking at the source code, before ease of search was a thing.

Are we going to enter an age where every decision made is coupled with the couching of an AI? This through process scares me. A lot.

Re: You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here

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Post by justusthane »

chinathrow wrote: post #61
ceejayoz wrote: post #56

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The AI is trained on human input. It uses the dash because humans did.

Yeah but a dash, at least on my keyboard is a '-', not the one quoted above.

If you’re using the dash on your keyboard (which is a “hyphen–minus” character) in place of a en dash or em dash, then you are using the wrong character. That’s fine — it’s certainly more convenient, and I wouldn’t call you out on it — but it’s silly to assume that other people don’t use the correct characters.

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/punctuation-capitalization/da...

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