> Last week, you spent three hours writing a campaign brief. You saw a colleague generate something 80% as good in four minutes using an AI agent. Maybe 90% as good if you’re being honest.
No it's like 60% as good, but management and other "AI for brains" people can't see it.
If that's the case, then business results should get worse, and management should notice this. If business results don't get worse, then either 1) it's actually more than 60% as good, or 2) it doesn't matter to the business's bottom line that the result is only 60% as good instead of 80% as good, and management made the right decision.
>business results should get worse, and management should notice
This is a common oversimplification that results in an enormous amount of waste and bad products/services. Lots of causes and effects are too disconnected to see or too hard to measure. In addition to looking at metrics, good business leadership most also act like a human (which is a depressing thing to have to say): Use common sense; like good things; dislike bad things.
I 100% agree, reading very obviously ai written blogs and "product pages"/readme's has turned into a real ick for me.
Just something that screams "I don't care about my product/readme page, why should you".
To be clear, no issue with using AI to write the actual program/whatever it is. It's just the readme/product page which super turns me off even trying/looking into it.
AI can write a proper README. In fact, it's better than me at doing so and keeping it up to date. People writing README with AI are bothering to write it. In my experience AI won't automatically create README files for you when making projects with the exception of create project tools which create a default README, but in that case usually the AI ignores it and leaves it in the default state. People are just using a tool that lets them create without manually typing in each individual character.
Most manually written README's I come across are in a far worse state than an AI generated one. To the point that I will often ask an AI to summarise third-party projects for me because the README's are so abysmal.
Interestingly the one place I have seen "dry run" to actually mean "dry run" is using a air compressor to check to see if a water loop (in a computer) doesn't leak by seeing if there no drop in pressure.
Going to argue here, this is wildly bad advice. Decaf practically has no caffeine, it has 2-7 mg from what I can tell which is less then chocolate. 2-7mg is like impossible to notice and might aswell be water with how little there is.
My advice was along the lines of saying, in the 1950s, "give up all cigarettes, not just 'low tar'". Potential straw man here, but surely you wouldn't call that "wildly bad advice".
My comment was predicated on the belief that we wildly underestimate the negative effects of caffeine, as well as its activities at lower doses.
I feel like this, I honestly wish newspapers weren't bunk and there was a good "week in review" way to get the news. I find myself Doom scrolling to much.
It turns out those shopping car wheel locks use the same kind of low-frequency RF that can leak from your phone speaker. Someone made an app that allows you to lock or unlock certain shopping carts.
You're not the only one. I first assumed it was a library when I was scanning the headlines, but then when I started opening up tabs moments later I thought it added tabs and splits to existing apps. I remember something that brought tabs system-wide to Windows so it's not even too crazy of an idea.
No it's like 60% as good, but management and other "AI for brains" people can't see it.
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