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I remember the initial Google Workspace Gemini ads showing someone writing an email from a few bullet points and blowing it up to pages of text. Then another scene in the same ad has a user summarize pages of text into bullet points.
This is by far the worst and most expensive inverse-compression system ever.
I have never corresponded to another human with an AI response, I think just going through the process of doing that is the most fucking embarrassing thing you could do.
At work people have started just pasting AI responses into slack threads. PR review comments are also entirely AI written. I can understand having your AI review your code before you share with others for review (I would rather a bot point out my stupid bugs/typos instead of wasting someone else's time on them), but if you are reviewing something YOU need to review it.
I'm also getting annoyed because one guy keeps submitting entirely AI written PRs. They're awful. Too many comments that say nothing, they don't match our code styles, there are obvious refactors that would make the whole thing cleaner and more readable. It's just fucking lazy and a waste of time to keep telling him to fix it, because by the time I point out all the issues I could have just rewritten it myself.
I get A.I. to rewrite some emails to be "more professional" because I'm not good at corpo speak, then I dial it back 20%. I used to just write emails normally but I got in trouble for that. Now I can remotely trick people into thinking I'm neurotypical. It's the only helpful use case I've found in my life. Ideally I'd be allowed to write emails in the same natural tone I wrote this comment, but we don't live in an ideal world unfortunately
Ha, I had a manager like that. After support relayed a customer ticket to him: "tell the customer he is an idiot! We have a fucking export function for all his data! If he wants a custom bullshit report with is corporate style, he can import it into Excel and do it himself! Tell him that, but in a more professional tone."
Bestest IT manager ever.