“If you didn’t take the time to write it. Don’t expect me to take my time to read it.”
LLMs are destroying our cognition.
I’m noticing my own company doing this now. Everything that gets shown to potential customers is so obviously AI generated, and it all looks cheap as fuck.
I don’t know how the leaders in the company fail to see how sloppy everything has become… Everything looks like slop. It’s beginning to be embarrassing to work here. Yet… Everywhere looks similarly bad.
The tech industry is so fucked right now. It’s going to collapse on itself even if the US government considers ai too big to fail and props them up. No one wants to buy slop. Why would they?
After writing a paragraph, many times I would ask the AI to ensure what I had written was correct by referencing the source code or configuration, or examining production logs or metrics. For example, ensuring I had correctly described which columns in the database were indexed, or how the rows in the Parquet files were sorted. This allowed me to stay in the context of writing, often moving on to the next paragraph while the AI verified the previous one. It helped me spot important omissions and inaccuracies.
“Am I a joke to you?” - Editors, probably
Even this is LLM generated? It is not—it is!!!
