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You can use AI. Seriously! It's a great tool for drafting. Just read what it gave to you , then write your own version, or polish the text. Don't be a middleman between it and the answer.

This website is AI entryism

Modern "let me google that for you"

I've found some people just pasting AI answer in an discussion we were having in a forum.

I straight up said, "if I wanted to talk with chatgpt I know the website". And stopped the conversation right there.

I don't even know what was the point of that.

It might not look like it, but the person on the other side has the same tools you do. If they wanted the generic answer, they'd have it in a couple of seconds. They asked you because they wanted your take... Your context, your taste, your judgment.

But how many times do “we” (i.e.: IT, tech support for family) end up having to search for answers for people they don’t look it up themselves? I’m not saying to always spit back AI answers, but to say to not do that because people have the same tools… not a great argument.

Incompetent or ignorant person will post the output and hope it confirms their beliefs without them even understanding it.

It sounds smart so it must support my side

I don't love getting pasted AI, but those motherfuckers that paste it and don't even read it are the absolute worst.

steve: I need you to help me because jen is having problems with this AWS policy being wrong it's not linked to that account and the closest thing I can find it this account over here but that doesn't look right, just let me know if you want me to make changes to that policy.

It's just some fucking disconnected stub of a policy from 10 years ago when we changed direction real quick, those accounts don't even exist.

me: jen, what's wrong? jen: I logged out and I can't get back in, the links are missing.

me: here, use this URL. jen, thanks! i'm in!

If you're going to use AI, ok whatever, just make sure it's fucking right!

Prompt laundering, the act of reading a prompt output and retyping an approximation in your own words.

Ironically this page seems to be entirely made of slop, the whole text reeks of claudisms, as opposed to https://noslopgrenade.com/

Personally "I checked with Claude" invalidates anything you just said, even if it was properly researched and legitimately correct. As soon as you invoke the slopbots I lose any regard for your answer.

If a piece of the model's answer is genuinely useful, quote it and say why. "I checked with Claude and this part lines up:" works great.

It still drives me nuts when my boss does that. Especially since the next thing he sends is a bunch of AI-generated code he just wants us to copy and paste into our application. He treats anything the magic AI says as authoritative, and it overrides anything an actual person can say to him.

I never have this problem of people giving me AI responses to my questions.

What I do have a problem with is people who do this:

https://nohello.net/en/

Or maybe just don't use AI at all? It's not a reliable source of information, it's unsustainable in terms of resources consumed, it's unethically trained and it makes everyone's lives worse.

Do this instead You can use AI. Seriously! It's a great tool for drafting. Just read what it gave to you , then write your own version, or polish the text. Don't be a middleman between it and the answer.

You're still acting as the middle man for the answer. You didn't answer fucking shit. If you, the human being, have nothing to add yourself, stay the fuck out of the conversation. Especially if the questions being posed are asking about other people's personal experiences in something.

if someone pastes text from llm, i wont even read it.

It honestly feels very disrespectful of my time when someone sends me an AI slop response or email.

Don't be that person.

https://distantprovince.by/posts/its-rude-to-show-ai-output-to-people/ is more thoughtful and interesting

I just don't use AI at all for this. I only use it for formatting my code, auditing my code, and research (that I verify). I would never use it for communication.

Or the angry version: https://dontpastetheai.com/angry/

I got an email from a client last week asking me to install an AI-generated list of containers onto a server. The key container, the database at the center of the whole system, has commits from Claude in it's git repository. Great start guys.

They outsouced the software architect job to a chatbot and then had a veteran of the industry who has been around since the internet equivalent of the big bang install a handful of docker containers. Reverse centaur to the max.

It's going to hurt in 12 months time if they realise the reason why everything sucks is because they built on sand. But they probably won't even realise why the project failed because their chatbot won't be able to tell them why.

One of a very few areas where /c/fuck_ai and /r/singularity can agree

Pro tip for any hiring managers out there. At the end of your job description, prompt inject something that is totally unrelated to the job at the end of the job posting. So far I have been able to catch 75% of the sloppy AI applications using this method. For me I added something like, a nice to have is to explain and understand an Q shaped team structure.

AI gets super creative with what that means(means nothing). For the people who do get through, that is usually their first question to me.