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Re: Ask HN: What problem did AI create at your company that didn't exist before?

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Workslop [1] in seemingly every possible dimension: excessive wording in Slack, with entire messages clearly not written or fully understood by the person writing; Notion pages with the same pattern; vast piles of internal engineering documents such as RFCs, ADRs and AVDs that were clearly not only not written by the author but also not even reviewed, ultimately conveying no information, a negative signal-to-noise ra…

Damn those are a lot of reasons. The accountability one is particularly messed up to me....If you cant defend your own work and blame it on Claude, The question arises why are you even being hired for

> The question arises why are you even being hired for

Oh that's easy. Someone needs to review and approve edits and commands.

Re: Ask HN: What problem did AI create at your company that didn't exist before?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Damn those are a lot of reasons. The accountability one is particularly messed up to me....If you cant defend your own work and blame it on Claude, The question arises why are you even being hired for

> The question arises why are you even being hired for Oh that's easy. Someone needs to review and approve edits and commands.

From engineers to reviewers...we have come a long way.

Re: Ask HN: What problem did AI create at your company that didn't exist before?

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Excess verbiage in communication. Design docs, root cause debriefs etc all are clearly AI generated with little thought to whether they are helpful to the reader. They are certainly helpful to the writer as they can just offload it to the AI. Its hard to discern the kernel of truth that the author is trying to communicate. So much of documentation is now AI generated and rarely does it help in understanding code base…

I hate long-winded communication.
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