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Re: Don't just paste the AI at me

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Post by jayd16 »

travisgriggs wrote: post #110

I find that junior engineers like to use it “up the authority” of their arguments when my experience clashes with their desires. OTOH, I am humbly aware that sometimes my experience is wrong and a curse to me. I DO need to be careful to not “hold on to old ways”. But I’m not convinced this is the right way to level the fields between wisdom/experience and innovation/freshtake.

Using an AI response as supporting evidence in a longer discussion is different from what is being called out here.

The issue is pasting verbatim without adding any additional insight, or even a hint you read the response yourself.

Re: Don't just paste the AI at me

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Post by evilduck »

mil22 wrote: post #100
evilduck wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You entirely missed the point in the article: Everybody has access to AI. Nobody needs another person proxying it slowly and poorly in a worse medium than direct access. Replying with AI responses is equal to saying that you're no longer relevant or valuable to the discussion. If you are annoyed by that and want to block people, fine, obviously nothing of value will be lost because they can just go to the source dire…

On the contrary, I completely understand the point of the article. I disagree that there are no people who benefit from another person using AI on their behalf. Everybody has free access to Google, Wikipedia, and Bing - that doesn't make sharing quotes from those sources worthy of abusive language telling people they shouldn't have children. Some people really do find value in another person opening up their ChatGPT…

Some people are on the bottom 5th percentile of the intelligence bell curve. Some people also enjoy having their balls being smashed in by high heels. Some people... blah blah blah. What a weasel statement. You are describing a straw man scenario that doesn't normally play out in the real world as such.

Replying with AI is the first obnoxious act. People reactive negatively to it should be expected.

Re: Don't just paste the AI at me

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Post by isityettime »

noident wrote: post #89
CoastalCoder wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Perhaps this falls into "how to have hard conversations" bucket?

If I told my coworker that his or her "brain is a gizmo" and to "not reproduce" I would expect to be frog marched out the door a few minutes later.

"Your brain is a gizmo" doesn't sound very harsh to me, but "please don't reproduce" would be a problem in any reasonable workplace.

Re: Don't just paste the AI at me

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Post by isityettime »

zmmmmm wrote: post #64

I've always been fascinated that some people don't seem to have any email "voice" - they just can't translate email text into human emotional impact. So they write super abrupt emails, things they would never say in real life, totally different to their actual personality. It's almost like a distinct form of autism. Meanwhile I'm almost the opposite extreme - I can't hit send on something unless I've finessed it unti…

> I can't hit send on something unless I've finessed it until it sounds exactly like how I would communicate in person.

The dedication is admirable, but work emails aren't in-person chats. Imo it's not appropriate to try to retain a singular voice across varied genres. I don't want my emails to sound the way I do in person just like I don't want a programming book I read to sound like a lunchroom discussion.

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