Post B0Vc8AkWe2Y7DF3JmS by dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org
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(DIR) Post #B0VRA6HF9210QR4ZJA by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-22T14:13:17Z
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@ngaylinn It will only make him more annoyed if after you do (no saying you should) you are still not impressed. I have tried it. In good faith too. Let me see if I can make this work. Can it save me any time?But the time savings are an illusion. I tried it for feedback on a poem and it was very flattering but then on reflection that felt hollow and I didn't want to trust the advice since... well I didn't write the poem for machine validation I write a poem to impress my friends.
(DIR) Post #B0VRsFxkUlIFCr0f3I by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-22T14:21:20Z
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@ngaylinn People are scared that people look down on them for leaning on this tech, he may have been using it much more in ways you don't know about. I think that there is an impulse to hide the use kind of says everything. The shame isn't coming from other people, it's ones own self-respect saying that this is lazy, inconsiderate, hollow.AI use guilt is real. And justified.
(DIR) Post #B0VS6rJgPZZd6xESO0 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-22T14:23:59Z
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@ngaylinn I know of some one who asks AI things like "my co-worker asked me to cover for them, how do I say no without making them mad?" It might be OK advice, but by using it one is avoiding the friction and danger of human interactions. I get it. Social interactions are terrifying. But, if I use a machine to help me never make a "mistake" will anyone even know who I am anymore? I am an annoying person. That would be lost.
(DIR) Post #B0VSr8nfjvGuemKPwm by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-22T14:32:20Z
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@ngaylinn I guess that's why doing that for an email to a boss seems less offensive than doing it for an email to a friend. That said, I don't even really think the tech is very good at this type of thing. You will always need to proof-read and edit, and edit and edit. By the time you are done it's the same process. Unless you close your eyes and hit "send" and hope no one notices you sound like a creepy overly friendly creature from an advertisement. And some people are doing this.
(DIR) Post #B0VU1sklqEiK1nemZM by abucci@buc.ci
2025-11-22T14:45:12Z
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@ngaylinn@tech.lgbt If you'll indulge me, how about a word replace: "My friend seems genuinely baffled that I research lotteries but refuse to play the lottery! Not only that, but I argue against it from theory, not experience. Why don't I just give it a try for a while, and see what I really win before I judge it?"
(DIR) Post #B0VZayqveiliqp5og4 by thejikz@infosec.exchange
2025-11-22T15:47:51Z
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@futurebird @ngaylinn indeed.I was told: "You aren't doing it right."And: "It has gotten a lot better..."OK perfect! Please link me to the the SOP or "any documentation™" for this to use in my business setting context that has established data for use cases adjacent to our current model of doing things. .....still waiting.
(DIR) Post #B0VazQVea0ZJX0MVfc by Lemmus@social.vivaldi.net
2025-11-22T16:03:27Z
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@futurebird @ngaylinn “[...] sound like a creepy overly friendly creature from an advertisement.”That's the preferred mode of communication in some corporations. I once had a co-worker who caught flak that she didn't use enough emojis, and therefore “seemed unfriendly”. (I included her gender, because I suspect that played a role.) Reminds me of the scene with “How much flair is required?” in Office Space.I think this is why the LinkedIn crowd loves LLMs, that kind of hollow, performative cheeriness is the ideal which is being aspired to.
(DIR) Post #B0VbqBQ5Pigc4xukca by dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-11-22T16:12:59Z
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@futurebird> I am an annoying person. That would be lost.🤣@ngaylinn
(DIR) Post #B0VbzOnD3xSeA27mRE by PeachMcD@union.place
2025-11-22T16:14:41Z
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@futurebird @ngaylinn There's also a goodly chunk of evidence that LLMs pick up racist & other sick biases from the 'swamp' that forms their learning pool. Why does your friend not feel wary about that 💩 tainting their work & interactions?Asking honestly... I can't imagine why anyone committed to a better world thinks AI will help, given the data I've seen
(DIR) Post #B0Vc8AkWe2Y7DF3JmS by dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-11-22T16:15:35Z
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@futurebirdMy wife is incredibly much more productive if she starts with something on the page and can edit it. Almost all her scientific papers started out with me writing some bullshit about the topic and her then writing an entire paper about how wrong I was 😅 anyway now she outsources that to AI! AI took my job!@ngaylinn
(DIR) Post #B0Vf6PVF7WfgFkkuMy by SRLevine@neuromatch.social
2025-11-22T16:49:33Z
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@futurebird @ngaylinn If you let AI write it you wouldn't get the catharsis from writing your own cranky email to someone about a problem. I'm going to have to edit it for professionalism anyway, so I might as well type it all out and get to vent in the first draft.
(DIR) Post #B0Vh5Bl2wGEJF4h0oS by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-22T17:11:47Z
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@dlakelan @ngaylinn OMG I should ask my husband to write a paragraph about ants. It would cause a whole book.
(DIR) Post #B0VhGFuJqpFxIUJ6VU by dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-11-22T17:13:38Z
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@futurebird @ngaylinn I'm here for the book. Kickstarter that puppy.
(DIR) Post #B0VjUHFRrXZrPz0Iwy by eruonna@chaosfem.tw
2025-11-22T17:37:34Z
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@Lemmus @futurebird @ngaylinnI'm job searching right now, and I have access to coaching for that from a severance benefit. The advice is almost 100% use LLMs. Use LLMs to write your LinkedIn profile. Use LLMs to suggest edits to your resume to match a job description. Use LLMs to prepare for interviews. And much of it is justified because recruiters and HR are going to be using LLMs to filter resumes and such. The whole thing just feels gross.
(DIR) Post #B0W0upBxytSFRWcUca by macronencer@mastodon.scot
2025-11-22T20:53:58Z
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@futurebird @ngaylinn "That said, I don't even really think the tech is very good at this type of thing. You will always need to proof-read and edit, and edit and edit. By the time you are done it's the same process."Yep. A colleague of mine used an LLM to shorten an email I was going to send. I had to check it carefully and correct it in three places where it had missed my nuance and actually changed the meaning.
(DIR) Post #B0W9NH4SijtFeLBdHE by econads@mendeddrum.org
2025-11-22T22:28:42Z
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@futurebird @ngaylinn I mean you might be less annoying. But I've a friend, I love her dearly, but she does tend to formal texts. I think it's from having worked in a call centre and I'm like I'm a friend not a customer, you don't need to talk to me like that. So it might make you more annoying.
(DIR) Post #B0WwX3VetLYgEvCXAW by fiore@brain.worm.pink
2025-11-23T07:39:35.674227Z
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@ngaylinn the reason why ppl are always trying to convince you into using ai is because they feel deeply insecure about using it . seeing someone that doesnt , and is perfectly fine with it , just like how they were until 5 years ago , feeds into that insecurity
(DIR) Post #B0WwehympAV5mWTUNU by lilacperegrine@clockwork.monster
2025-11-22T14:38:30Z
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@ngaylinn I kind of worry that I will get sucked into it if I am forced to use it for work etc.maybe that's not justified, but by seeing how badly people want me to "just try it", it sounds like an addiction i want to steer clear of.
(DIR) Post #B0WwejUNDDMSSmGEFc by fiore@brain.worm.pink
2025-11-23T07:40:58.728021Z
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@lilacperegrine @ngaylinn i was forced to use ai for my programming job , i also was afraid of this . truth is , it obly made me hate it more , and want to stay even further from it in my free tine
(DIR) Post #B0Wwk6nhxzgqDArs7U by kirakira@furry.engineer
2025-11-22T17:49:49Z
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@ngaylinn broadly speaking i feel like there are two major kinds of 'ai' users (using the bubble era definition of ai); people who know it's bad and feel some level of personal guilt in that, and 'ai believer' types who really need it to become the inevitability that it is in the stories so their dependence on it will be justified. i know this isn't 100% coverage and there's the occasional self-identified power user who somehow doesn't seem indebted to them but seems to manage to make use of them (still not something i'm there for, but whatever) but that really feels like the two main types
(DIR) Post #B0WwkBam9VJf4Vr79k by kirakira@furry.engineer
2025-11-22T17:52:27Z
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@ngaylinn and yeah, it's a little weird seeing ai believer types be *that* forthright about needing it to be that inevitable. maybe they're in a denial loop about acknowledging whether they have lost something to relying on it. i'm not going to pretend to be a psychologist, but i have to imagine there must be some reason these types see it as so important to evangelize something that they will say is "just another tool" in the next breath
(DIR) Post #B0Wwu9I1ZFWOpJprjE by coolbean@linfan.moe
2025-11-23T07:43:49.398678Z
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@fiore @lilacperegrine @ngaylinn yea you have to be a pretty shitty developer for the stuff to even seem appealingregrettably like half of all code in the world is npm packages
(DIR) Post #B0WxeB6h8wFvmeU7Iu by kimapr@ublog.kimapr.net
2025-11-23T07:51:17.132331Z
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@fiore @lilacperegrine @ngaylinn forcing devs to use AI is crazy tbh like Yeah you must use the shitty crap generator instead of doing things the way you know to do or your fired
(DIR) Post #B0Wxp9XTJVie6cF6Rs by fiore@brain.worm.pink
2025-11-23T07:54:06.353973Z
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@kimapr @lilacperegrine @ngaylinn its more like : heres this churn generator . u dont have to use it !! but every week my churn expectations from you are gonna be very high , and my quality expectations very low . but dw really !! its totally fine if you dont wanna use it !! imean i am spending 200€/mo for it which i could rlly havr just given to you in your paycheck , but does that even matter . dw really
(DIR) Post #B0X0lcGyq5VvvWXAsi by robot@sfs.sunglocto.net
2025-11-23T08:26:29Z
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make a chatgpt clone that just gives you your own code 🧌CC: @fiore@brain.worm.pink @lilacperegrine@clockwork.monster @ngaylinn@tech.lgbt
(DIR) Post #B0XHJouXxJQmEgN9mK by KFvMalssen@mastodon.social
2025-11-23T11:32:28Z
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@futurebird @ngaylinn if you have, like me, typing speed close to talking speed, proofreading an email costs as much time as writing it myself in the first place. So prompting LLM to write it for me is all additional time lost.No thanks, I will write my own mails.
(DIR) Post #B0XccjvGpAm3IvZdYm by efraim@tooot.im
2025-11-23T15:31:11Z
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