Comment by Aurornis

> is far more important than whether the contents of the report have any relation to reality beyond the surface level.

This only works in broken companies where leadership is already overrun with other status climbers.

If someone tries this trick at a functional company and is discovered, their reputation takes a huge hit that can take years to overcome, if ever.

At high performing companies reputation is everything. It can be a real problem to even get people to work on difficult or risky problems because they’re afraid of having a failure attached to their reputation.

Throwing unreviewed LLM slop around would be a reputation death sentence if your peers are good at what they do, because by now we all know that it’s easy to generate long reports with LLMs. The secret is out and anyone who follows technology knows it.

There are some companies where you can LLM report-slop your way to prestige. Those are not companies you want to stay at.