alt Hacker News> The biggest surprise to me with all this low-quality contribution spam is how little shame people apparently have.
ever had a client second guess you by replying you a screenshot from GPT?
ever asked anything in a public group only to have a complete moron replying you with a screenshot from GPT or - at least a bit of effor there - a copy/paste of the wall of text?
no, people have no shame. they have a need for a little bit of (borrowed) self importance and validation.
Which is why i applaud every code of conduct that has public ridicule as punishment for wasting everybody's time
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This sounds a bit like the "Asking vs. Guessing culture" discussion on the front page yesterday. With the "Guesser" being GP who's front-loading extra investigation, debugging and maintenance work so the project maintainers don't have to do it, and with the "Asker" being the client from your example, pasting the submission to ChatGPT and forwarding its response.
I've also had the opposite.
I raise an issue or PR after carefully reviewing someone else's open source code.
They ask Claude to answer me; neither them nor Claude understood the issue.
Well, at least it's their repo, they can do whatever.
Not OP, but I don't consider these the same thing.
The client in your example isn't a (presumably) professional developer, submitting code to a public repository, inviting the scrutiny of fellow professionals and potential future clients or employers.
Didn't happen to me yet.
I'm not looking forward to it...
Our CEO chiming in on a technical discussion between engineers: by the way, this is what Claude says: *some completely made-up bullshit*
Random people don’t do this. Your boss however…
Problem is people seriously believe that whatever GPT tells them must be true, because… I don't even know. Just because it sounds self-confident and authoritative? Because computers are supposed to not make mistakes? Because talking computers in science fiction do not make mistakes like that? The fact that LLMs ended up having this particular failure mode, out of all possible failure modes, is incredibly unfortunate and detrimental to the society.