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Don't be a meat proxy

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Re: Don't be a meat proxy

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Post by gjvc »

ffsm8 wrote: post #56
eddythompson80 wrote: post #8

I deal with this all day long at work and it’s exhausting. People almost acting like no one has thought of it “I asked Claude what happened, and it spit out this 300 line response. Can you read it for me and see if it’s right?” What kills me is you might expect this from a busy high level manager that doesn’t really understand the technical details and they just point the AI to an error they got. They don’t know how…

At my dayjob there is a person spearheading ai across the enterprise. They generated lots of documentation across the whole stack and now makes all PO/BAs read it if it's correct. So not just 300 lines - he unironically generated thousands of lines of "documentation" and is now making hundreds of people review it for him Complete brainrot Au psychosis is getting seriously outrageous at this point Thankfully I'm a dev…

>Thankfully I'm a dev and thus aren't in the blast radius of that genius idea

yes you are

Re: Don't be a meat proxy

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Post by deepsummer »

bigstrat2003 wrote: post #129
deepsummer wrote: post #9

In my life, the bigger issue are people who are not asking Claude, but asking me. Because it would take 15 minutes to find out the answer myself, and 3 minutes to let Claude find it, I ask Claude. So how should I answer? Should I disclose that I used Claude to find the answer? Or should I act like I did it myself, appearing to have super-powers that I don't possess?

The problem with asking Claude (or any LLM) is that they will get things wrong much more often than a human, while sounding perfectly confident about the information. It's a recipe for disaster unless you're asking it about something where you have enough expertise to be able to sniff out the BS. So if people are asking you a question, that means they figure you're able to answer the question accurately. If you can d…

Have you really used the latest models (say Opus 4.8+ or Fable)? When was the last time they gave a wrong answer to a question about the code base? Half a year ago that could have happened. But not today.

Re: Don't be a meat proxy

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Post by [deleted] »

throw310822 wrote: post #108
maccard wrote: post #91

At my last job, a coworker did this to me. The first time it happened, I ignored it. The second time, I responded in public saying “thanks but I can ask Claude myself.” Nobody ever pasted me an LLM response again. YMMV with team size and seniority though

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Re: Don't be a meat proxy

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Post by raincole »

globular-toast wrote: post #121
jayd16 wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All machines are for laziness.

I think you are confusing machines with motors. Many machines do things that simply are not possible without. A bicycle, for example, is not at any less work than walking, but it enables you to go faster than you can run. Menually operated sewing machines produce stitches that would be infeasible by hand. Motorising any of those machines could be considered lazy, though.

> A bicycle, for example, is not at any less work than walking

What? Have you, uh, ridden a bicycle before...?

Re: Don't be a meat proxy

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Post by dinkumthinkum »

voidUpdate wrote: post #88
64e23275635e wrote: post #15

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it's already happening. IQ is already stagnating or even going down

IQ is calibrated so that the average IQ is 100. If the average IQ is going down, something has gone very wrong somewhere

I feel like this post unironically proves the point.

Re: Don't be a meat proxy

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Post by debugnik »

voidUpdate wrote: post #141
everfrustrated wrote: post #134

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IQ is a relative measure not an absolute one. 100 IQ in 2026 can be massively different in absolute terms to 100 IQ in 1956. If you look at old test papers - the lack of intelligence in modern times is very stark.

Yes, but the comment was about IQ, not absolute intelligence. The median intelligence is, by definition, 100 IQ, so the median IQ cannot be decreasing

There's always a lag, you calibrate the test based on previous results, not future ones. If intelligence is decreasing I'd expect every IQ test to keep scoring a median lower than 100 unless taken immediately after calibration. Once it stops decreasing they'd converge again.

Re: Don't be a meat proxy

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Post by asusatom450 »

dude250711 wrote: post #152
jasonkester wrote: post #61

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I just can’t understand why this is not a fireable offense. Like, I can see getting a strong warning the first time somebody notices you do this, then if you persist you’d have to be let go. Just like anybody else who is clearly not doing their job. Why would you tolerate this sort of behavior at your company?

That would make execs who asked staff to tokenmaxx look even sillier than they already are.

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Re: Don't be a meat proxy

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Post by master-lincoln »

4gotunameagain wrote: post #148
usef- wrote: post #107

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What about it? You might need to do multiple different exercises outside to mimic it

Which exercise outside mimics that movement while simultaneously being so easy on the joints ? Anyway this is just silly, we are splitting hairs. A lot of machines have a functional purpose and do not exist for the lazy. The LHC, ships, thousands of examples.

Aren't ships just for people too lazy to swim and the large hadron collider for physicists that are too lazy to hand-accelerate particles and make them collide with 13.6 TeV of energy? /s

Re: Don't be a meat proxy

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Post by pringk02 »

richrichardsson wrote: post #115
lelanthran wrote: post #94

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> Au psychosis is getting seriously outrageous at this point So... back to a currency backed by gold?

Aren't you clever knowing the periodic table symbol for gold! Actual Intelligence could grasp this was a simple keytranspose typo...

I think you missed that the actual intelligence knew that it was a typo, and that the joke they made riffed on pretending that they did not know.
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