Comment by dr_kiszonka
15 hours ago
I work under the assumption that the primary audience of everything I write at work is an AI. Managers will take what I send and have it summarized and evaluated by some chatbot or agent. (Of course, I cannot send them the summary myself.)
So like ATS checkers for resumes, I find myself needing an AI checker for my text.
Ultimately, we will have AI write everything for another AI to parse, which will be a massive waste of energy. If only there was some agreed-upon set of rules, structures, standards, and procedures to facilitate a more efficient communication...
If that is your manager, do so, sure. But make sure your manager is "such a manager".
If I was your manager, and you sent me your seventeen page AI generated thing coz you think I'm just gonna summarize anyway and I expect something long: You misread me.
I make a point all the time to everyone that won't listen, to not send me walls of text. I'm not gonna read them. I'm gonna ignore them, close your bug reports until I can understand them because you spent the time to make them short and legible. If you use AI for that, I don't care. But I better have something short and that when I read it makes actual sense and when I verify it, holds up. If I wanted to just ask AI, I'd do it myself. You have to "value add" to the AI if you want to be valuable yourself.
I agree. I send 2 sentence replies to most things my bosses boss sends me. He’s near retirement, dude doesn’t want me to send him a book. He knows the thinking under the work our team is doing is solid.
The only time I send something longer is if it’s a postmortem for some prod issue, which I write by hand.
I use AI every day, often multiple agents at once, but knowing when it’s appropriate and when I need to be the one thinking really hard about something.
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I go through this with my vendor budgets and contract negotiations right now. We are encouraged to put all their proposals in AI and have it refute each point. I know for a fact they are putting my negotiations in their own AI and having it counter-propose my points. It's an arms race of my AI fighting against their AI. Where does it end.
Where is uncertain, but how is: badly.
It’s the Red Queen’s Race, where we all run as fast as we can to stay in exactly the same place.
Ends when you tell them "this AI shit is ridiculous so we are choosing a different vendor"
I’m too lazy to tell the AI what I want to say, then copy and send its output.
I just type what I want to say and hit send. YOLO
> I just type what I want to say and hit send. YOLO
Made me smile. Perhaps the new term for making a human hand-written reply is that I didnt use AI … “I YOLOed it”.
I'll argue there's potentially a standards based advantage at the end when this all shakes out.
It will probably take a couple hundred years but I'm pretty sure I'm right about this :)
I'm also sure about things that will happen after me and my whole audience are dead.
I have a hard time trying to find any reasons for the S̶k̶y̶n̶e̶t̶ owners of the Skynet not to get rid of that walking bipedal inefficiency called human.
API or die /s.
Seriously, though, fuck that shit!..
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