I wanted to suggest just not talking to people who do this, but apparently you get paid to talk to them.
Don't paste the AI, please
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#272> The person on the other side has the same tools you do.
Strictly speaking, not true. I have Gemini Pro; my friend doesn’t.
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#273Earlier quoted context omitted.
> But isn't that "burden" on others always going to be there, whether you or AI wrote it? That's what communicating is... I think it can be OK if AI is used to polish up one’s message or to help structure it. Basically help with grammar, formatting, and wording. But copy pasting an AIs response to a question? Not at all. People earn a reputation over time. TRUST is earned. An AI cannot earn trust. If you copy paste a…
> I think it can be OK if AI is used to polish up one’s message Asking it to identify problems such as spelling, grammar, or general clarity is fine. If you tell it to "polish" many commercial LLMs will absolutely slopify your text with characteristic AI catch phrases and non-sequiturs. Beware.
Indeed. And if someone then shares that output verbatim, they'll undermine their own credibility. They can guide the AI to tidy it up, or do it themselves. The issue is not in using AI for writing, but in not using it consciously.
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#274I disagree strongly. Nearly every time this comes up it seems people are not doing a good job giving their AI context. My AI environment is REALLY context aware based on a whole bunch of things I have access to that others don't. When my AI respond to a question it is full of information the person asking the question just didn't have access to. You can also train your AI not to give a wall of text but to give very concise answers. This whole web page stinks of being a total skill issue with using AI. I much prefer AI answers to my questions ( most of the time the answer is going straight into my AI, so I don't really care if an AI generated the response, I'd probably trust it more.). This is all about you build your projects, the documentation you build, how that is shared, it means many questions don't need to be asked because everyone has access to good context whether its built things, things coming up, ideation, market research, product research, or whatever stage you are at. Build pathways for context to move around and go through stages. Not only that, my guess is everyone is mostly reading AI responses to things ALL the time anyways, what difference does it make if you get to ask a question and get a response from another AI with a different context? None. Avoid these kinds of sites as they lead people astray. Much like the advice "Share the prompt, not the response" ... absolutely ridiculous, different context means you get different responses with the same prompt. If you want to pursue something that's actually useful, think about context engineering such that questions largely don't need to be asked.
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#275the angry version is... not very angry.
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#276Earlier quoted context omitted.
The irony is that this is the exact opposite of the "let me google that for you" meme of the previous decade. If you have a question that could've been answered by AI, maybe you should've used AI in the first place.
I have the totally opposite sentiment from the previous LMGTFY meme. It was easier before to ask humans rather than do some research using Google, that's not true anymore with LLMs. Now if I ask a question to humans I'm looking for their personal opinions drawn from their personal experience, be it ticket size for a feature on a legacy codebase, a design decision or a product strategy decision.
I agree that if someone asks you something, you should at least write "I asked AI and it said..." rather than pretending the AI response was your own. If you ask me something and my first response is to ask AI, it's probably because I only know enough on the subject to ask AI, and don't know much more beyond that, which would be the real answer.
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#277Here's what Claude said:
There's a delicious irony in pasting dontpastetheai.com into an AI chat, and I choose to believe that's deliberate.
It's well written though. The parody answer in the middle is the sharpest part — "this mild Google search you could've done in 3 seconds" — because it nails the exact texture of unedited model output: the fake enthusiasm, the numbered scaffolding, the conclusion that concludes nothing. The tell isn't that AI was involved, it's that no human judgment was applied afterward. You can't fake the presence of taste.
The "guess who the AI will replace first" line is the real argument underneath the humor. If your contribution is indistinguishable from a prompt box, you've made the case for your own redundancy better than any automation study could. What survives is the part the page calls "the thing the model doesn't have" — your opinion, your context, your willingness to say "actually I disagree."
It's also a close cousin of something you've presumably thought about with Kindship: when agents message each other or humans, the same failure mode applies. An agent that just relays raw completions is exactly as useless as the coworker this page is roasting. The value is in the editorial layer — deciding what's true, what's relevant, what you're willing to stand behind. That's arguably what SOUL.md-style identity is for: giving an agent something to have an opinion from.
Were you filing this as cultural artifact, or is it aimed at someone specific in your orbit?
Re: Don't paste the AI, please
#278the angry version is... not very angry.
And doesn't seem very constructive either.
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#279Heh. Just got done writing (by hand!) a Principles of AI Use document for my (ironically) AI enablement firm, the first of which is: Write as yourself. You’re being paid for your expertise and insights. Communicate them directly to us. Copying and pasting Claude responses into Slack or an email directly shifts the burden of comprehension and understanding to everyone else, and worse, risks skipping that step for your…
This is excellent. Would love to see the rest of the principles of AI usage.
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#280Had an offshore dev respond to me with copy pasted Claude response for the first time the other day. My reaction was of immediate visceral disgust. I can say in no uncertain terms that I do not care if your English is completely broken. I prefer that over AI slop. You will not improve your writing and language proficiency if you do not practice them! If you do not care about your language proficiency then you have ze…
The "good" news is you won't have to deal with this much longer. Claude, which this person basically admitted through their behavior, will replace 99% of the offshore devs in the next couple years. Then you won't have to get the ick from talking to them and they can go back to having no real economic prospects in a 3rd world country, and most likely lose the social and economic standing they had from having a good job.