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AWS Fired the One Employee Who Gave a Damn

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Re: AWS Fired the One Employee Who Gave a Damn

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Post by bayesnet »

> Not a product launch. Not a keynote. Not a revenue metric. The thing he was most proud of in four years at one of the biggest companies on …

What’s tiresome about this is that people don’t even bother to edit it. I use LLMs to draft long-form text all the time because I think the hardest part is getting something on the page to refine. But I would be embarrassed to leave LLM tells like this in the final result, if only because I want people to know that I actually cared about what I’m asking them to read and that I value their time.

It’s especially ironic here because this is about lauding a person who cut through the impersonal behavior of a large organization. Evidently this person was not worth even an editorial pass over the article though.

Re: AWS Fired the One Employee Who Gave a Damn

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Post by bakugo »

haburka wrote: post #6

I think this kind of overly dramatic writing makes me struggle to respect the arguments in the piece. Like the blog writer has this style like they’re documenting the collapse of humanity or something when really it’s just a massive cloud company taking some direction that may be suboptimal. I understand this tone can be helpful to drive effective change but I think it should be reserved for situations where people a…

> Like the blog writer has this style

You mean Claude has this style.

Re: AWS Fired the One Employee Who Gave a Damn

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Post by agmater »

ablation wrote: post #2

A challenging writing style on a really difficult to read page with a sloppy AI header image means that this article was a not a great experience.

It's like reading an article that drops in "moist" in every sentence, I'm literally uncomfortable trying to read this

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Post by AndrewKemendo »

The Bureaucracy of the mundane is totalizing and is intended to put up what look like “understandable” barriers

David Graeber already covered this a decade ago

> Bureaucracies public and private appear—for whatever historical reasons—to be organized in such a way as to guarantee that a significant proportion of actors will not be able to perform their tasks as expected. It also exemplifies what I have come to think of as the defining feature of certain utopian forms of practice: that is, ones where those maintaining the system, on discovering that it will regularly produce such failures, conclude that the problem is not with the system itself but with the inadequacy of the human beings involved—or, indeed, of human beings in general.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-the-ut...

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Post by eoskx »

haburka wrote: post #6

I think this kind of overly dramatic writing makes me struggle to respect the arguments in the piece. Like the blog writer has this style like they’re documenting the collapse of humanity or something when really it’s just a massive cloud company taking some direction that may be suboptimal. I understand this tone can be helpful to drive effective change but I think it should be reserved for situations where people a…

Claude's style is now overuse of sentence fragments, which this "article" has in spades. Fragments are the new emdash or "delve".
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