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Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass

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Re: Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass

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The author might be human, but used an LLM to help them draft the letter. Something I do sometimes is brain dump into an LLM and have it help me organize it, and then I iteratively refine what I want to say. 20 some odd years ago I read zen in the art of motorcycle maintenance, and it made the point that writing is hard when trying to decide what to say and how to say it at the same time. Just stuck with me. Brain du…

Brain dumping to a blank page and organizing your own thoughts is still an option.

Sure, so is calculating my taxes with pen and paper and no calculator, or doing a bathroom renovation without any power tools, or hiking off into the forest without any clothes or supplies, never to return.

Re: Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Brain dumping to a blank page and organizing your own thoughts is still an option.

Sure, so is calculating my taxes with pen and paper and no calculator, or doing a bathroom renovation without any power tools, or hiking off into the forest without any clothes or supplies, never to return.

So you think that having your words rewritten by an llm is somehow a more powerful, faster, safer way to write down your ideas? What do you want to say with this exactly? How you separate the “what” to write from “how” to write it?

Why I engage with this comment? I truly believe that trusting your own knowledge and skills is the way forward. If you don’t have the skill? Build it. Don’t outsource thinking and learning.

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