use AI for everything
get fucked
who could have foreseen this
one CEO of a tech recruiting company suddenly found herself being inundated with Slack messages from employees that they’d clearly generated using AI, leading her to implement a new policy that strictly forbids the practice for internal communications.
One anonymous CEO got so fed up, they threatened to “fire the next person” who blasted them with unedited ChatGPT slop
“You weren’t supposed to send me all of this slop! You were just supposed to sell it to paying customers!”
My own experience is that many, many “bosses” out there are not worth their hugely grotesque bonuses.
David Graeber might have something to contribute to this.
Management: Use AI everywhere! Also management: Why does everything sound like a chatbot? The real failure is executives confusing mandatory adoption with actual productivity, then blaming workers when the resulting mountain of nonsense lands in their inbox.
I started a new role at a multi national corporation a couple months ago. My “onboarding” to try to get caught up on a new project involved shifting through thousands of pages and slides of AI generated content that had been created on this project… Which ironically is about creating systems to try to make AI return more relevant results. The company have paid me a small fortune in the hours I spent reading material that held no value but to make someone somewhere look like they were being productive at some point in time.
I’ve been dealing with this at my job too, I’ve been trying to review technical documents “written” by another developer who is 100% using AI to generate the technical docs. I find the docs totally unreadable. I don’t have much in the way of review comments except “can you re-write this part in a more human-readable way”? * 1000. Then the re-writes happen but again it’s clear the prompt was just “AI, re-write this in a more human-readable way” and it’s still just as unreadable just in a different format.
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But then again, I’m always unsure, are we at the point where we aren’t expected to be able to read these docs, and are they just meant to be ingested by a different AI agent to then use them to do something else ?or are they just meant to be ingested by a different AI agent
Given that these models are (ideally) trained on good, well-documented human code, I’m guessing that poor documentation will also lead to poor results, so they’re probably not meant for LLM input, but of course, they’ll probably end up as it anyway.
Don’t make me tap the sign
If you put no effort into making something, why does it have value and why should people put effort into consuming it?
To be pedantic, value is in the eye of the beholder. Cost is how much goes into something, Price is how much someone wants to pay, Value… that is much more subjective.
Oil costs $50 a barrel to pump, priced at $100 on the market but when it comes to value could be seen as providing $20,000 of human labor.
Not trying to defend AI junk, like seriously people, just do the work yourself. But value is such a hard thing to quantify.
“But but but! Who’s gonna burn all that oil & gas if AI data centres don’t? Won’t somebody PLEASE think of fossil fuel promoters!”
The Babies are still drilling, remember? We have to make sure they make billions and trillions of dollars…
And here I always thought the CEO was supposed to stay at home and just have a slop agent ingest the tsunami of slop and spit out piles of slop in response. I never expected the CEO to read the slop personally.
And I am sure this will have consequences for these bosses and will land them in unemployment and poverty, right? Surely?
LOL
It’s like asking a rando to write a Rust program. Just not going to happen at the level necessary to be good. There are people getting very, very good results with Claude.
