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Tell HN: I'm tired of AI-generated answers

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Re: Tell HN: I'm tired of AI-generated answers

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Post by didgetmaster »

gdulli wrote: post #35
turtlebits wrote: post #26

The obvious answer is to talk to people face to face. Call them, invite them to a meeting, etc.

Covid already started to create a situation where people get indignant if you expect them to physically show up to places. Like we're in The Naked Sun. We're probably headed towards people feeling the same sort of entitled to respond to you in the medium of least effort, that is, copy/pasting from AI.

It's been decades since I read the Asimov book. I vaguely remember the details. Luckily AI gave me a quick summary to refresh my memory.

Re: Tell HN: I'm tired of AI-generated answers

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Post by cyanydeez »

jadar wrote: post #15
programmertote wrote: post #9

Same. Last week, my boss, Chief Data and Analytics Officer, dumped an AI-generated proposal (~7 pages) on how to structure semantic layer on top of our dbt models. As the Data Engineering lead, I had to read it and found a few glaring issues; left a lot of comments asking him for details where it's lacking; and proposed a few of my ideas (the path I think we should take without over complicating everything unnecessar…

Starting to wonder that we’re going to start being forced to execute on an AI output instead of sharing it with other people. If you can reason yourself into a working system, you know what you’re talking about. If not, then it’s not worth taking the time to figure it out.

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Re: Tell HN: I'm tired of AI-generated answers

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Post by tkgally »

turtlebits wrote: post #26

The obvious answer is to talk to people face to face. Call them, invite them to a meeting, etc.

I really like working from home myself, but I am starting to suspect that the organizations that thrive in the years ahead will be those with lots of face-to-face interaction. If most people are working remotely and having AI agents communicate on their behalf, trust won’t form, consensus-building and decision-making will suffer, and employee salaries will start to seem like a waste of money.

Re: Tell HN: I'm tired of AI-generated answers

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Post by postsantum »

programmertote wrote: post #9

Same. Last week, my boss, Chief Data and Analytics Officer, dumped an AI-generated proposal (~7 pages) on how to structure semantic layer on top of our dbt models. As the Data Engineering lead, I had to read it and found a few glaring issues; left a lot of comments asking him for details where it's lacking; and proposed a few of my ideas (the path I think we should take without over complicating everything unnecessar…

Reminds me of that guy with "people skills" from Office Space movie

"Why couldn't customers take the requirements to the software people?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkmuI5W694o

Re: Tell HN: I'm tired of AI-generated answers

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Post by blueside »

Is prefixing your searches with "before:2024" the new "reddit" of google searches?

I have certainly found myself using this prefix a lot lately for certain topics. I use AI a lot for researching, but sometimes I just want to really read something written by a human as it sinks in much better

Re: Tell HN: I'm tired of AI-generated answers

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Post by turtlebits »

PyWoody wrote: post #39
turtlebits wrote: post #26

The obvious answer is to talk to people face to face. Call them, invite them to a meeting, etc.

I've had people relay conversations to Claude irl. You say something... pause while they look at their phone ...they give a response that is out of their depth, etc. The last time it happened I just up and left.

Exactly. Express your displeasure and stop interacting. Feels like people forgot how to communicate with each other.

Re: Tell HN: I'm tired of AI-generated answers

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Post by mbirth »

uberman wrote: post #3

You're absolutely right! I'm here to help. Tell me more about . Joking aside. I do hate when teammates forward me screenshots of chatgpt conversations as if that was somehow going to be helpful and as if they were so smart for thinking to ask an llm to some a problem we were discussing.

> You're absolutely right! I'm here to help. Tell me more about .

Or, for the more grey haired among us:

Hello, my name is Dr. Sbaitso. I am here to help you. […] So, tell me about your problems.

Re: Tell HN: I'm tired of AI-generated answers

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Post by javascriptfan69 »

cyanydeez wrote: post #42
jadar wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Starting to wonder that we’re going to start being forced to execute on an AI output instead of sharing it with other people. If you can reason yourself into a working system, you know what you’re talking about. If not, then it’s not worth taking the time to figure it out.

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The what class?

Re: Tell HN: I'm tired of AI-generated answers

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Post by Eighth »

I believe it's dishonest to give an unreviewed unedited AI answer as your own response without disclosing it's an AI answer.

AI is often right enough for most people's cases, but one in ten times it's completely off the mark.

I hope as time goes on, people who are being empty shells for AI get weeded out of the workforce.

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