Comment by ShinyLeftPad

20 hours ago

Is this the zoomer syndrome I am hearing about lately? My friend says zoomer coworkers increasingly start asking easily searchable questions, and also (this part is not your comment, just my 2c) in a demanding tone like you owe them money. Allegedly they spend all their time in LLMs and lose the ability to gather information

I wonder what humanity will look like in 20 years if this doesn't stop.

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rustcleaner  19 hours ago

Look, he doesn't know what to search for. He doesn't have your experience to know what is crap and what is good info, and the big models will ninny-nanny him for '''safety reasons.''' There is so much more shit to wade through today than a decade ago. Cut the kid some slack and be a mentor! Gatekeeping kills.

  • ShinyLeftPad  19 hours ago

    It's right there in the comment, firmware glitching tools?! I have zero experience in this topic and even I was able to find exactly what the guy asked for on first page of google results

    This is the same as what my friend says. She would have no idea what they are asking, fire up search engine, find the thing, and tell them to do the same. But "demand answers" is the default behavior for zoomers

    • nl  13 hours ago

      Why this judgemental tone?

      One person's "asking a question" is another's "demanding an answer"

      Clearly both search engines and chat interfaces are merging, and clearly they should be because they fulfill the same kind of requirements.

      Complaining about that seems a lot like those who complained about how the correct url for altavista should always be altavista.digital.com, not altavista.com and how autocomplete is bad.

csh0  20 hours ago

I have encountered this behavior in people of all ages for as long as I can remember.

  • ShinyLeftPad  19 hours ago

    I haven't and neither my friend

    • perching_aix  19 hours ago

      And what are we supposed to do with the two of you apparantly living under a rock [0], and going through baby's first "kids these days" moments, exactly?

      Never heard of LMGTFY ("Let Me Google That For You")? Why do you think it exists?

      Or "Google / Wikipedia is your friend"?

      Or RTFM ("Read The Fucking Manual")?

      Really not new inventions (and "zoomers" were there for them, cause the oldest ones are pushing 30! [1]). Not hard to search for either, by the way...

      [0] or rather, going through some very conveniently selective amnesia

      [1] just to really give you a sense of how stupid this generation-xyz thing is, this "generation" includes people whose first OS was entirely possibly Windows 98, and at the same time, people whose first OS was Windows 10

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