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Re: We’re more patient with AI than with each other

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> No frustration. No judgment. Just iteration. [citation needed] This entire article is just meaningless vibes of one guy who sells AI stuff.

Also, what are the "rule of three" and constructions of the form "no X, no Y, just Z" indicative of? Bruh either had help, or he's the most trite writer ever.

Well also get to the point eventually where people are writing like AI because they’re exposed to it so much. I’ve caught myself rephrasing certain posts after I realized it sounded like AI

Re: We’re more patient with AI than with each other

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Speaking only of written communication here: I've noticed a distinct trend of people stopping documentation, comments, release notes, etc. intended for human consumption and devoting their writing efforts to building skills, prompts, CLAUDE.md intended for machines.

While my initial reaction was dystopian horror that we're losing our humanity, I feel slightly different after sitting with it for a while.

Ask yourself, how effective was all that effort really? Did any humans actually read and internalize what was written? Or did it just rot in the company wiki? Were we actually communicating effectively with our peers, or just spending lots of time on trying to? Let's not retcon our way to believing the pre-AI days were golden. So much tribal knowledge has been lost, NOT because no one documented it but because no one bothered to read it. Now at least the AI reads it.

Re: We’re more patient with AI than with each other

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The AI doesn't judge, it doesn't have ego, and generally, if it does poorly, it's more a reflection of the user providing the inputs (giving bad instructions or not enough context). So in a sense, we are more forgiving of ourselves more than anything.

> if it does poorly, it's more a reflection of the user providing the inputs (giving bad instructions or not enough context).

Sounds a lot like the understanding we should have with each other.

Re: We’re more patient with AI than with each other

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The AI doesn't judge, it doesn't have ego, and generally, if it does poorly, it's more a reflection of the user providing the inputs (giving bad instructions or not enough context). So in a sense, we are more forgiving of ourselves more than anything.

> if it does poorly, it's more a reflection of the user providing the inputs (giving bad instructions or not enough context). Sounds a lot like the understanding we should have with each other.

Humans are social animals. Any interaction with anyone else (except perhaps kids, and even then) is a competition, or at least, is at risk of turning into a competition at the drop of a hat. And humans just love competing with each other over anything at all, like all social animals do.
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