Totally fair argument to make right now. But so funny how this is the opposite movement of "Let me Google that for you".
Don't just paste the AI at me
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#52I wonder if we gathered all of the "don't quote the ai" people and all of the lmgtfy people in the same place, would they cancel out? Like matter/anti-matter annihilation?
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#53Seems a bit aggressive to send to someone. Let's spread love, not hate
It's a bit aggressive to send someone mindless AI chatspam. We should consider such behavior a direct affront. Wtf is with this excuse-making for abandoning the bare minimum of professional competency?
mental health is really important and there seems to be a growing trends of folks making comments on HN like this who sound really burnt out. burn out can be hard to place, ive been through it and in now way do i share this reflection. ide rather reach across the isle and just help someone vs. go on HN and complain like this.
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#54Sending an AI response communicates more than just the response itself: 1. "I'm not entirely sure, but this is what it says to save you some time." 2. "You didn't ask the question precisely because you are not an SME, but I reworded it using the jargon that would allow the AI to answer better and here is the response." 3. "This response is AI, but in general my other ones are not" 4. "I trust the AI's response in thi…
Sometimes people ask questions on HN off handedly while making some kind of argument where the questions can easily be answered by plugging them into a Google search box. And then I wonder why didn’t they just do that? Usually they don’t do it because it causes whatever argument they are making to implode quickly. I’m guessing they aren’t anti AI they just don’t want to know. It’s not even a “do you trust the AI or not” since the AI is just able to quickly find and present basic data. The fact that their question can be answered quickly and easily is what they find offensive.
At work I’ll use AI to answer colleague questions and then wonder why they just didn’t use it instead. It’s usually just a training issue, the answers are usually right enough to unblock them at least.
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#55Seems a bit aggressive to send to someone. Let's spread love, not hate
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#56Can I get a version of this without the over-the-top misanthropic "don't reproduce" comment? I hate it when you quote the AI at me because you stop treating both yourself and me like humans who are communicating. I want to pull you up out of that dehumanization, not drop down into it myself in retaliation.
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#57This is not clever. A lot of people do not understand what LLMs are capable of now. It can be learning experience to show a product person how they can leverage LLMs rather than acting like you're the know-it-all by obfuscating the fact that you used an LLM to answer a question
If you want to do it occasionally, sure, whatever. I have a coworker who solely communicates in the form of screenshots of him asking Cursor my question, even when they’re questions that are interested in his motivation or plans, not the code base, and that Cursor does a bad job answering. I’ll ask a Slack channel “does anyone have experience with tools A and B, so they can suggest which matches our use case better”, and he’ll respond with a screenshot.
I don’t need him to pass on LLM answers. I can and do ask them myself. I’m asking questions because I’m interested in the experience my coworkers have beyond what AIs have trained on.
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#58I don't know what's worse: 1. Asking a question which could be answered by an AI 2. Pasting an AI response to something If 1 is fair game, I'd say 2 is too.
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#59Overdramatic: when I saw friends and acquaintances doing this I couldn't help but feeling a slight sense of loss--that we (I) have lost the person.
At that point, is the person still even a person? He's nothing more but a meat RPA, copy pasting responses.
The reason I value a person is the uniqueness of the person's brain's weights and biases. When I lose access to that and I get ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini weights and biases, isn't the person... essentially dead to me and the world?
It's a very unsettling thing to think about. What makes a person a person isn't the fact that the person's breathing air, eating food, copulating, defecating, but it's the person's wetware's weights and biases. Because without those, what is even this meat construct I'm talking to via WhatsApp?
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#60My parents come to me with questions about how to close a app on their iPad, and frankly I can not be asked to give them a walk through when I put chatgpt on their iPad for that reason. And yes, my boss also uses AI and replying to their emails with this is frankly going to do nothing lol.
My dad (retired network engineer) has ChatGPT, but when he asks me about something, he's trying to keep a connection with me. I value those moments.
and also that when you ask someone stuff, they might have adjacent insights or stories that then give you better insight than just asking an LLM
or some kind of ideas/etc. might come to light.