>This lead to a kind of effort inversion, where senior devs spent much more time on these PRs than the junior authors themselves.
It's funny, I have the same problem, but with subject matter expertise. I work with internal PR people and they clearly have shifted their writing efforts to be AI-assisted or even AI-driven. Now I as the SME get these AI-written blog posts and press releases and I spend a far more time on getting all the hallucinations out of these texts.
It's an effort inversion, too - time spent correcting the PR-people's errors has tripled or quadrupled. They're supposed to assist me, not the other way around. I'm not the press release writer here.
And of course they don't 'learn' like your junior engineers - it's always AI, it's always different hallucinations.
P.S.: And yes I've raised this internally with our leadership - at this rate we'll have 50% of the PR people next year, they're making themselves unemployed. I don't need a middleman who's job it is to copy-paste my email into ChatGPT, then send me the output; I can do that myself.
Part of the solution is pushing back when you spot tons of obvious lazy LLM errors instead of fixing them yourself. Otherwise there's not much incentive for them to improve their effort.
Yes I've tried to have an internal standard for AI usage: at least the PR people have to tell us if they use AI. It completely changes how we approach editing of a text AI-written vs human-written (humans don't hallucinate citations, for a start).
Of course this is impossible to enforce, and I believe that the PR people would rather hide their AI usage. (As I wrote above why pay high salaries to people who automate themselves away?)
Edit: actually, that's the story of my life. I've been working for 20 years and every 5 years or so, stuff gets reshuffled so I have 3 more jobs instead of 1. It feels like I have 20 jobs by now, but still the same salary. And yes I've switched employers and even industries. I guess the key is to survive at the end of the funneling.
It's funny, I have the same problem, but with subject matter expertise. I work with internal PR people and they clearly have shifted their writing efforts to be AI-assisted or even AI-driven. Now I as the SME get these AI-written blog posts and press releases and I spend a far more time on getting all the hallucinations out of these texts.
It's an effort inversion, too - time spent correcting the PR-people's errors has tripled or quadrupled. They're supposed to assist me, not the other way around. I'm not the press release writer here.
And of course they don't 'learn' like your junior engineers - it's always AI, it's always different hallucinations.
P.S.: And yes I've raised this internally with our leadership - at this rate we'll have 50% of the PR people next year, they're making themselves unemployed. I don't need a middleman who's job it is to copy-paste my email into ChatGPT, then send me the output; I can do that myself.