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Re: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

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Post by dominotw »

mittensc wrote: post #179
onlyrealcuzzo wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Try prompting Claude to fix an arbitrary code base better than someone who knows it, when you're a random non-technical person. Try prompting Claude for legal advice and getting as good of results as Lawyer would if you're a layperson. Try prompting Claude for medical advice if you're not a doctor... I would hope these people are AT A MINIMUM screening the responses they get before passing them off. There's value in…

I find your comment a bit funny > Try prompting Claude to fix an arbitrary code base better than someone who knows it, when you're a random non-technical person. I've seen people employed working on some code bases that couldn't code at all. > Try prompting Claude for legal advice and getting as good of results as Lawyer would if you're a layperson. Some lawyers are downright incompetent and don't know what they're t…

ai good cos some ppl bad.

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Post by Forgeties79 »

hvb2 wrote: post #225
Forgeties79 wrote: post #193

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you tell somebody to go google it, you are being incredibly rude 95% of the time. That is pretty widely understood

Sure, but asking someone something that should be easily answered in a few seconds is also rude. Programming is an intense job, in that it takes a lot of focus and time to build up a mental model of what you're working on to make progress

I highly doubt you never ask questions that you could’ve looked up yourself. “Go Google it” translates to “this isn’t worth my time,” which is a pretty rude way to be.

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Post by psvv »

hamburgererror wrote: post #18

Face reality my friend, Internet is now hostile to humans. Time to leave this place for good.

I was reflecting the other day how discovering things online felt like being in on a secret. You had to just know about a chat room or BBS or website. Each one was like discovering a secret.

Now it's the opposite, anything special posted online will quickly get overrun. It's the parties and places not posted about online that feel like you're discovering hidden gems.

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Post by matheusmoreira »

torben-friis wrote: post #60

>But even when I talk to people, they forward my questions to AI and send me the AI’s answer. This is the killer issue. It's so profoundly saddenning, it feels like watching an adult being asked a question and calling mom to answer for them. There is something deeply disturbing in it that makes me feel I'm not talking to a self sufficient entity.

It depends on the situation. If you were just talking then sure. Pretty rude to just check out of the conversation and replace the human you were talking to with an LLM.

That's sad, but you know what's infuriating? It's humans who come at you sarcastic and dismissive and without spending any effort actually engaging with what you've said in good faith. Imagine writing a well reasoned out post or comment, only to get a sarcastic dismissive literal oneliner reply instead. I've decided that those people will absolutely get the LLM from now on.

Matching the amount of effort that others around me are putting in is pretty important to me now. Don't want to end up trying too hard for people who don't give a shit.

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Post by hamburgererror »

kilroy123 wrote: post #244
hamburgererror wrote: post #18

Face reality my friend, Internet is now hostile to humans. Time to leave this place for good.

Leave and go where? A homestead in the middle of the woods? Another planet?

To the bar or whatever physical activity you may like as long as you can talk to flesh and blood human beings.

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Post by andybak »

If the power dynamic allows it, I tend to just reply "Sorry, I'm not reading that".

(Unless it's a) trivially short or b) there's a solid reason to send me it. It's the "wall of AI text" that I generally nope out on)

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Post by sgt »

> What you’re describing is a real social shift, not just annoyance with a tool.

> AI is useful as a tool. But when it replaces attention, judgment, and personality, conversations start feeling empty.

I pasted your article into ChatGPT and it gave me the most depressing statements. The above and also about 800 more words.

Re: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

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Post by vidarh »

sschueller wrote: post #127
torben-friis wrote: post #60

>But even when I talk to people, they forward my questions to AI and send me the AI’s answer. This is the killer issue. It's so profoundly saddenning, it feels like watching an adult being asked a question and calling mom to answer for them. There is something deeply disturbing in it that makes me feel I'm not talking to a self sufficient entity.

True but how many times have people sent someone "let me google that for you". Some people are inherently lazy and unload their laziness to someone else to do the thinking for them. I still think sending someone an AI answer is terrible but then again, if you are going to ask me for help, at least make some effort first. EDIT: By laziness I mean that there are known places (they know of) with documentation that cover…

The best "hack" to appearing smart and knowledgable in the average organisation used to be to not just not say "I don't know" until after Googling things, because 80% of the time the person asking you didn't bother doing that first, and in doing so you learn something as a result, and end up looking good.

The line to that and coming across as an ass is whether you bother to read the result and put it in your own words (which also helps in actually learning something) vs. cutting and pasting the result...

With AI it's much the same - if you take the time to ask the question, and take the time to read, understand and put it in your own words you'll look good. The ones who cut and paste the AI answer will increasingly look passive-aggressive and rude.

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