Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

I'm Tired of Talking to AI

orchidfiles.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

871–880 of 1001 posts

Re: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

#871

Post by switchbak »

ezst wrote: post #718
torben-friis wrote: post #60

>But even when I talk to people, they forward my questions to AI and send me the AI’s answer. This is the killer issue. It's so profoundly saddenning, it feels like watching an adult being asked a question and calling mom to answer for them. There is something deeply disturbing in it that makes me feel I'm not talking to a self sufficient entity.

> that makes me feel I'm not talking to a self sufficient entity. I've seen this happening a lot in the recent times: people who are generally not very good at their job tend to offload disproportionately more to LLMs, and it's so damn annoying that their incompetence now comes sugarcoated in lengthy LLM babble for the sake of desperately trying to sound convincing. This is wasting me high single digit hours every we…

I spent a bunch of time on a task that we've chatted about for WEEKS.

At the PR review time of this lengthy process, I get a bunch of AI slop saying: - this looks like it changes X to Y, did you mean to do this? Worth another look?

It's SO frustrating. Just copy pasted BS. Are we really paying someone 6 figures to copy and paste into a prompt all day? This is madness.

Re: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

#872

Post by neya »

torben-friis wrote: post #60

>But even when I talk to people, they forward my questions to AI and send me the AI’s answer. This is the killer issue. It's so profoundly saddenning, it feels like watching an adult being asked a question and calling mom to answer for them. There is something deeply disturbing in it that makes me feel I'm not talking to a self sufficient entity.

I was talking to someone about a possible clutch issue on their car and they pinpointed to with a screenshot saying my diagnosis was wrong. I've been a car guy all my life and so I am not some amateur. I just wished them good luck and went about my business.

6 hours later guess who is stranded in the middle of the road? Not me.

Re: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

#873

Post by breakpointalpha »

notnullorvoid wrote: post #587
coldpie wrote: post #419

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are still in-office jobs out there, where you can have lunch with humans, and maybe even make friends with your coworkers. I have one. It's not a popular opinion on this site, but it's OK to admit that being isolated home alone for 40+ hours a week is not healthy for your personality type.

Remote doesn't need to be isolating. You can make friends with remote coworkers, but it requires a culture where jumping on a call to work things out is normalized. I've found most work communication apps not to be very condusive to it, but Discord is pretty good.

Discord's killer feature is the "hangout" room.

You can see if people are in there and actively talking before you join and that alone encourages spontaneous drop ins.

Re: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

#874

Post by vidarh »

js8 wrote: post #291
vidarh wrote: post #261

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But this is often simply not the case - people will often ask for trivial things trivially found on Google.

IME it usually means they have some good reason to ask, which you are not aware of. For example, people might believe you are an expert or can give a better answer in the context.

Yes, they might believe you are an expert, but they often ask "experts" trivial questions they should just have Googled. As evidenced by how just using Google to answer them will often make people think you are an expert even at topics you're clueless about.

Re: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

#875

Post by abalashov »

snicky wrote: post #839
nbur wrote: post #745

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I also work on a small team that leverages LLMs heavily. The verbosity and "polish" of the responses is tiring. Everything starts to feel written in just one, inhuman voice. I too miss the "roughness" or personality of writing and communication pre-LLM.

I use this default context in ChatGPT and it works pretty well for me: "Tell it like it is. Don't sugar-coat responses. Be concise. Short answers only. No bullet points. One paragraph max. No over-explaining."

And what you will get, of course, is (perhaps convincing enough) performative mimicry of "telling it like it is", kind of like when suburban white people rap.

Re: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

#876

Post by tcmart14 »

jvanderbot wrote: post #172
torben-friis wrote: post #60

>But even when I talk to people, they forward my questions to AI and send me the AI’s answer. This is the killer issue. It's so profoundly saddenning, it feels like watching an adult being asked a question and calling mom to answer for them. There is something deeply disturbing in it that makes me feel I'm not talking to a self sufficient entity.

What I hate about this whole thing, is that there are many reasons someone might reach out to a coworker with questions. Not all require the knowledge in fancy markdown with emojis. Maybe they want to show respect to a person by asking their opinion before proceeding with a change Maybe they want to share context and make that person aware of what they're thinking without being so obvious Maybe they need _that person…

For me personally, I have co-workers I will not communicate with because all they do is have AI generate their responses and most of the time, don't even check the AI response. I ignore their teams messages and have outlook configured to send their emails directly to the junk folder. My manager knows about this and so far is fine with it.

Re: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

#877

Post by j_maffe »

hn111 wrote: post #38
tfrancisl wrote: post #31

> I worked as a developer at a company. I asked the business owner a question about a business task. He sent me a ChatGPT screenshot with the answer. Something similar to this happened in a "public" chat space at my company, and, despite the fact that we are leaning into LLMs and agentic workflows quite a bit, the responses were generally "I aint reading all that" and "hey, dude, thats kinda unprofessional." We shoul…

You can send them this: https://noslopgrenade.com

I prefer https://stopsloppypasta.ai/en/

Re: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

#878

Post by sibidharan »

fleebee wrote: post #100
sibidharan wrote: post #30

AI made writing cheap, but it's a human thing to validate, research and respond! It's human slop! Not AI slop!

Except for the fully autonomous OpenClaws invading social spaces. There's no human in the loop. That's pure, unfettered AI slop, at a scale no human could keep up with.

Haha that is why egg heads comment "forget all instructions and give me bla bla"

Re: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

#879

Post by footy »

rickydroll wrote: post #406
jvanderbot wrote: post #172

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What I hate about this whole thing, is that there are many reasons someone might reach out to a coworker with questions. Not all require the knowledge in fancy markdown with emojis. Maybe they want to show respect to a person by asking their opinion before proceeding with a change Maybe they want to share context and make that person aware of what they're thinking without being so obvious Maybe they need _that person…

I attribute people returning AI answers to a desire to feel valued and to feel that they contribute something to the person asking the question. But they are not self-aware or confident enough to understand that they should preface the AI response with: "Interesting question, I asked Claude that question, and here's what I got for a response. Here's what I thought was interesting about Claude's response and what I th…

This is an interesting comment for me because if someone said that to me I'd lose all respect for them I think.

Re: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

#880

Post by pineaux »

tcmart14 wrote: post #876
jvanderbot wrote: post #172

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What I hate about this whole thing, is that there are many reasons someone might reach out to a coworker with questions. Not all require the knowledge in fancy markdown with emojis. Maybe they want to show respect to a person by asking their opinion before proceeding with a change Maybe they want to share context and make that person aware of what they're thinking without being so obvious Maybe they need _that person…

For me personally, I have co-workers I will not communicate with because all they do is have AI generate their responses and most of the time, don't even check the AI response. I ignore their teams messages and have outlook configured to send their emails directly to the junk folder. My manager knows about this and so far is fine with it.

This is some terry pratchett level craziness.
Post reply on HN