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(response written without the use of AI)

@david_chisnall Bad user interface design is the same principle: a company/developer can’t be bothered to think harder about making the app work better; They just need to tick a “shipped app” box on their performance objectives for the quarter.

@david_chisnall 🎯 "Almost all LLM uses are like this: they save the user time (at least, in the short term) by making more work for someone else. They're machines optimised for creating rudeness."

@david_chisnall Can't we say that it's a multiplier of the user's original capabilities and intent?

For each of the complaint, a diligent, caring LLM user could actually use LLM to reduce the burden on others by having the LLM support their thinking.

If you write something, have the LLM take a pass at pointing out lack of clarity, duplication, style problems.

If you write code, have an LLM point out where you overlooked an edge case, missed clarity in a comment, left a bug…

Perhaps it's not so much the tool as the user that is at fault?

@david_chisnall Not directly related to LLM use but very much related to who does the work: In a communications training I participated in some time ago for me the most impactful thing the teacher said to us was:

"Someone always has to do the work that a message gets understood. It can be either the sender or the receiver. If you are the sender, do you want to leave it up to the receiver, who usually has less incentive to do the work?"

Now this is my north star when writing emails, bulletins, news, etc. You can use LLM to help you with this process (not saying you should use it) but you cannot outsource the provess to an LLM or you are actually moving the work back to the receiver.

@david_chisnall Borrowing terminology from distributed denial of service, you could call LLMs a kind of amplification attack.

@david_chisnall You encapsulate much that is badly wrong with many people these days because of too much time inside tech.

Playing games of Go now - a deeply complex game requiring thought and analysis to play well - most players play insanely fast, rarely speak and just do not care in the slightest that they are playing another human.

It is very chilling how deep the lack of humanity can be.

Yes.

And people have been doing such things a lot without LLMs, too.

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@david_chisnall this is not just impolite, it’s called “externalizing the costs” and it’s the root of extractive capitalism, and therefore of all evil

@david_chisnall not an AI/LLM user, but I have been guilty of some of the rude PR behavior at various points in my past: expecting help with PR code when broken / non-optimal.

trying to correct this whenever I notice it. it's a fine balance to achieve since the PR workflow usually involves some level of critique, especially when contributing to a new codebase.

the LLM shit just turns those shortcomings up to astronomic levels, and short-circuits any opportunities for growth.

@david_chisnall That's an excellent way of putting it, David. Thanks for taking the time to write it. 🙏🏼

@david_chisnall this is all of LinkedIn.

“Look at this post [A]I have written to make me look good.”

I greatly improved my quality of life by deleting that app.

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That which we find annoying in others - they find annoying in us.

Really easy test: did the critics take linear algebra. If not, they aren’t talking about AI

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The whole notion of taking others into account seems to be lost on lots of people. If one doesn't think about your time at all, one can't be blamed for assuming anything about it... (but still be rightfully called an arsehole ;-))

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