Someone sent me what was clearly an AI generated doc. I read it, realized it was all AI, had my AI summarize it and ended up with nothing that brought new thinking
What a loop...
this post was submitted on 18 Oct 2026
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What, you don’t want to read a 10 page doc made from a 2 sentence prompt?
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This is the thing that drives me absolutely nuts with how most people use LLMs at work. I'm fully capable of asking the LLM to create slop, I need others to actually check and ensure their documentation is useful and correct before communicating it with others.
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It's weird - competent management wouldn't require employees to fly helicopters to work without flight training, but many managers somehow think, "Everybody use AI now," makes sense.
Remember when chatgpt first went viral and everyone said that "prompt engineer will be the new career path". So, how's that going?
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This is my own fault. I’ve been on Facebook for way too long honestly it’s been since 2007 don’t know but now they won’t let me login. I guess I don’t know what I wanna do but these bastards need to die. I guess this is my reckoning gosh darn
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Just in time for the big tech AI companies' bills to come due to their investors. Excellent... taps fingertips together
People at my company are broadly phoning it in with AI. Everyone on my team was complaining the other day that people keep posting in our team Slack channel with Claude and we are the only humans in the conversation.
Recently in my team people are posting AI output for review, and others feed it into a chat bot and paste the result.
So which trade are you thinking of changing to?
So which trade are you thinking of changing to?
I’m sure there will be a lot of demand for AI slop cleaner-uppers in the near future.
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The idea of AI is not the problem. It's the execution. Both in it's used wrong and that the people wont benefit.
If we could all leave work 2 hours earlier because of enhanced production, we would all fight for this shit.
But that's not gonna happen.
The idea of AI is not the problem.
For many of us, the idea is also the problem. Stealing the collected works of humanity in order to build a machine meant for delegating the thinking and feeling parts of the human experience is deeply antisocial, and an attack on our dignity as people
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This really is just like every other management trend. They take something that can have a positive impact and then try to apply it in all the wrong places without investing in making it work. AI can really help with a lot of mundane tasks that everyone dreads doing. And it can really help at finding information in an ocean of docs and pages. But... you have to invest in training people jow to use it, building the internal tools to make it effective, and in getting the garbage out of your existing docs. It can also be used for coding of course, but the ecosystem needed to do that well requires even more investment in basics. The fact that tech writers who know how to work with and document for AI aren't being hired by the bundle tells you how wrong soo many companies are about their approach. Bonus points, if used well, AI doesn't have to be obscenely expensive. At least until they start charging what it actually costs.
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This article is literally the AI slop version of the original Guardian article.
Well said. Futurism.com used to have interesting articles, but now all they do is put out garbage. I guess as long as people agree with the headline, they'll upvote slop.
"Companies are realizing"....
They're not people.
Loads of stories have emerged over the past few months of corporate executives realizing their all-out drive to use AI was getting them absolutely nowhere.
A story based on anecdotal evidence. I don't think that's the best journalistic practice.