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When I first started learning comp sci a decade ago all the old heads were like, Automate the Boring Stuff, and bragging that they'd written simple routines that did 90 percent of their job.
The whole time I was thinking, 'When middle management figures out your process you will be eliminated/replaced with an intern.'
I got out of IT because a future of resetting email passwords/taking the fall for your team when there is inevitably a hack seemed like a stressful future.
It is called decoder-encoder identity testing.
>We need AI to get rid of the middle man
>Makes AI the new middle man
I love American business culture
Right. The phenomenon of bullshit jobs. If nobody cares what is written, why not automate it away? Meh.
I feel like I'm too autistic for this shit. I'm an engineer and just send out the bullet points. Why are we wasting everyone's time with this overly verbose garbage? What happened to celebrating brevity? Just give us the 24 hr work week and give up this farce.
I used to be like that but learnt that the literal meaning isn't enough for some people, and an emotional impact needs to be created through prose. In general I still prefer brevity if it is very common phrases/jargon.
There is an idea among the neurotypicals that longer is better, in part because the academic environment rewards length. More words is more better.
Yup. "This meeting could have been an email" is evergreen.
"This meeting could have been an email, and the email could have been a pornhub session."
Not all academic environments reward length; psychology is quite the opposite where brevity and being concise are lauded. In my entire undergraduate psychology degree my longest maximum word-count for an assignment was 1500 words. Most were around 1000 words and a few were 700-800 words. Many people struggled with getting all the info they wanted into that space but I really thrived.
It isn't a judgement of the science so much as of the education apparatus around the students. If you don't have people able to grade papers on content, a lot grade papers on weight.
Yup. People don't like to admit that a huge percentage of corporate "work" is performative
I would like to do this, but many people want the fluff and sparkles.
I have received compliments from coworkers about my AI slop, and I told them, "You know that I just feed a list of bullet points into an AI, right?"
They were happy anyway. It will probably take some time before everyone gets over the 'wonders' of AI. Until that day, I give them what they want.
Yeah i do this. Whenever i try to write in paragraphs the recipient ends up not responding to half of it. It's like they reach the first question and stop reading.
This AI expansion and summarization reminds me of when translation online was new and you'd translate something then translate it back and get a totally different thing.
You gotta send separate emails with only one point/question in each email. Leave them nothing else to respond to.
Same but I'm playing the stupid ass game. Would prefer to do my work and use notepad to give you a list of things I did. Now it's a formatted report with a summary that said I did all the things.
Needs a third panel with a tech bro telling investors thatβs why his company is worth a trillion dollars.
Meat proxies we have become
The joke is that the ten bullet points at the end are completely different from the ten bullet points that started it all.
My team leader now wants weekly reports that he gives to his boss who I'm guessing gives them to AI to digest. It feels like we're all just putting on a sock puppet show and pretending it's real.
Was it ever real? I think AI is just exposing how nonsense it all has been for the past 40 to 70 years. This whole corporate culture mindset was built by people who used work to avoid their family and golfed or drank their way through lunch.
More than 5% of the people alive today got to work jobs in a time before weekly status reports, organizational key results, year end reviews and stacked ranking. There are even worse things from before those so going back isn't the answer. We need to build a new work culture and we should not feel that what we have today is just how it is.
And making their money off of the underpayed employees running the stores and factories on the bottom of the stack who actually create most of the value
It's even funnier now though because I've started including a summary section..."this week I saved the company and outperformed everyone else"...I should get a promotion soon ππππ
Wow we finally discovered lossy text compression and all it takes is 6000 gallons of water.
Gotta burn up the token quota somehow, or the boss will be mad again.
Everyone boosting AI use acts like it's this little secret that only they know about.
This also applies to job applications and resumes.
A good report should start with an executive summary, so executives don't have to read the full report, yet pretend they have all the info they need to make decisions.
If we make our own tldr, we can steer executives in the direction we want, while still providing real info to other technical people.
