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I don't love getting pasted AI, but those motherfuckers that paste it and don't even read it are the absolute worst.

steve: I need you to help me because jen is having problems with this AWS policy being wrong it's not linked to that account and the closest thing I can find it this account over here but that doesn't look right, just let me know if you want me to make changes to that policy.

It's just some fucking disconnected stub of a policy from 10 years ago when we changed direction real quick, those accounts don't even exist.

me: jen, what's wrong? jen: I logged out and I can't get back in, the links are missing.

me: here, use this URL. jen, thanks! i'm in!

If you're going to use AI, ok whatever, just make sure it's fucking right!

Prompt laundering, the act of reading a prompt output and retyping an approximation in your own words.

LOL remember "lmgtfy"? This is the modern and opposite equivalent.

I always read my AIs suggestion and while removing the em dashes, I read the entire thing.

This is such a bizarre take on AI.

If I ask you a question, I want a useful answer. I don’t care whether you got there by remembering it, Googling it, reading documentation, asking a colleague, or asking an LLM.

Obviously, blindly pasting 2,000 words of irrelevant AI slop is annoying. But that’s a problem with bad answers, not with AI.

The particularly stupid part is suggesting that you should take a perfectly good AI-generated answer and rewrite it in your own words. What exactly has been achieved then? The information is identical, except somebody wasted five minutes manually paraphrasing it so the recipient can feel sufficiently exposed to human keystrokes.

Use AI. Give it the relevant context. Verify important claims. Remove irrelevant garbage. Send the useful answer.

Judge communication by its accuracy, relevance and usefulness—not by how inefficiently somebody produced it.

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I don't think this accounts for situations where people never read any announcements or docs and DM you with the same questions over and over again despite your best efforts to spread the knowledge.

People who DM you with Hi or GM! Then silence.

People who don't know how to use asynchronous communication and are still stuck in the email era.

A cheap smart auto reply is worth more to me than hurting people's feelings. My feelings are hurt when you think it's okay to ask me a question in the FAQ, especially when it's an established doc site.

Things aren't this black and white, what I experience is not the same as this person. I may paste some AI slop vomit but that may very well be the insult that I am reaching for as I will not be your personal search engine for simple troubleshooting.