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Re: Don't paste the AI, please

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Post by shimman »

RugnirViking wrote: post #310
khaosdoctor wrote: post #140

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I actually wrote it all myself... The original version was the angrier one only, but people complained that it was too angry, so I tried to smooth it out with another version people could use.

I sure hope you wrote all those em dashes by hand you asked claude to remove in the latest commit in the repo. And all the ones on the website

Yeah looking at the repo it's clear the entire thing is sloppified. I don't know what point the creator is trying to make but sincerity on being human isn't it.

Re: Don't paste the AI, please

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Post by setgree »

throwaway98797 wrote: post #429
setgree wrote: post #419

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I get questions about academic papers I've written from non-academics sometimes. It's fun, I like that people are reading. However, some of them are clearly written by AI. I typically answer anyway, but on my most recent, I appended at the end: > P.S. I intuit, and Pangram agrees, that this last email was AI-generated (and apparently so was the first one, now that I checked). As general career advice, I wish to obser…

it’s passive aggressive. ultimately it’s better to not inform and start ignoring these people. let natural selection work.

What I wrote was neither passive nor aggressive. My telling you now that I think your response was ill-considered is also not passive aggressive, though it's arguably aggressive.

Re: Don't paste the AI, please

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Post by jazzyjackson »

Jamesbeam wrote: post #314
disillusioned wrote: post #17

Heh. 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…

Your whole handwritten Principles of AI document is a testament to failed leadership. That’s all it is. The only reason someone needs to write this is because leadership is not smart enough to solve the problems it showcases, in a way that is respectful to how the employees with years of experience learned their craft. They have a tried and tested thought pipeline that makes them capable of what you hired them for, a…

Weird take. It’s not bad leadership to have policies and there’s not near enough context to go on a rant about failed leadership. Maybe they’re doing fine.

Re: Don't paste the AI, please

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Post by physPop »

Grimburger wrote: post #102
disillusioned wrote: post #17

Heh. 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…

Am I the only one suspicious of your comment? > Write as yourself. Unless it's your first day on HN (it's not 2008 account), most people use paragraphs and sentences longer than 2-5 words. Something like "You, directly." in the middle of all that has a certain vibe to it. > Copying and pasting Claude responses... directly shifts the burden of comprehension Most definitely. The problem is we live in a world where peop…

Trained writers and journalists know that short sentences are an important tool. They convey directness.

Perhaps that speaks more to your education and that of "most poeple on hn"

Re: Don't paste the AI, please

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Post by jayd16 »

cesnja wrote: post #431

I beg to differ. I'll often do a short LLM session to figure out an issue and will use my existing knowledge and experience to drive the LLM towards some solution. When the answer seems legit enough, I'll copy it back to the one asking. It's not that different to what we were doing back in the day when search engines were still useful. I often wound up replying with a link either to a stackoverflow question or a blog…

Yeah but this is like the folks who just pasted the first hit or the first SO reply without even reading it and that sucked too.

Re: Don't paste the AI, please

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Post by biztos »

strenholme wrote: post #447
biztos wrote: post #287

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The WhatsApp voice message is very common in Spain. I always find it jarring when I'm there, mostly because I'm not used to it, but also because it seems to defeat the purpose of the messaging app: I can't listen to your voice message on the bus, for instance. It's so normalized there that I wonder whether this is a particularly Spanish habit. Maybe there are a bunch of countries where people routinely leave each oth…

The way I handle those, especially with the people who leave me 8 minute long voice notes, is to have WhatsApp transcribe the voice note for me. Or, if that’s not possible, either ignore the voice note or listen to it at 2x speed.

I was surprised WhatsApp didn't give me a "transcribe" button (as recently as yesterday). Seems like it'd be pretty easy to implement that.

Re: Don't paste the AI, please

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Post by bluGill »

ImPostingOnHN wrote: post #412
bluGill wrote: post #398

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I always tell people "Here is the documentation, please tell me what is hard to understand so I can fix it". When someone is new on my team I tell them "here is our team documentation, your first task is to fix it so that the next person can follow the directions correctly". That is I make the conversation not about them reading the manual, but about making it worth reading. There is a large amount of really bad docu…

If your customers or colleagues are asking questions answered by your documentation, it's often a good sign your documentation has some challenges: dense; intimidating; inaccessible; or not easy to search for the specific information you want. Take this valuable signal as a gift, letting you know there is an opportunity to improve the documentation. You could become known as a helpful person, rather than a maybe-effi…

Most of the problem is people don't know to look for it and so don't try. By asking them to help improve it that means I'm not shaming them for not looking at it and so they are more likely to read it. Also once in a while I get useful suggestions for improvement and so my documentation is now the best on the project, perhaps company (this is a very low bar)

Re: Don't paste the AI, please

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Post by wpietri »

throwaway98797 wrote: post #429
setgree wrote: post #419

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I get questions about academic papers I've written from non-academics sometimes. It's fun, I like that people are reading. However, some of them are clearly written by AI. I typically answer anyway, but on my most recent, I appended at the end: > P.S. I intuit, and Pangram agrees, that this last email was AI-generated (and apparently so was the first one, now that I checked). As general career advice, I wish to obser…

it’s passive aggressive. ultimately it’s better to not inform and start ignoring these people. let natural selection work.

Natural selection is demonstrably not working. It only takes one look at a newspaper to see that thoughtlessness and stupidity are doing better than ever.

I think the internet is pretty great, but it's a major factor in that rise in at least 3 ways:

* Previously, an important check on fools was social consequences. Now they have an endless supply of people to bother. Spammers were the first to exploit that, but now it's endemic.

* Algorithmic weighting toward the reaction-generating (versus, say thoughtful, measured, responsible, accurate, helpful, kind) has rewarded idiocy and awfulness with attention and money. We're all now living in a reality TV show.

* As those behaviors become a major percentage of what people, especially young people, see, they become normalized. Otherwise people think being a thoughtless jackass is just how to get by in the world.

We are strongly in need of firm politeness, of militant decency. Without it, things will get "naturally" worse.

Re: Don't paste the AI, please

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Post by josefresco »

> The person on the other side has the same tools you do.

Oh sweetie... I've been getting paid to "Google things" for 26 years. AI isn't going to change that transaction. When I was in high school it was assumed that everyone would be tech savvy. That didnt happen and in fact my kids were LESS tech savvy because of smartphones and refined aka dumbed down consumer tech.

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