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wanzgtoday at 12:17 AM4 repliesview on HN

It's a bit aggressive to send someone mindless AI chatspam. We should consider such behavior a direct affront.

Wtf is with this excuse-making for abandoning the bare minimum of professional competency?


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simslatoday at 12:33 AM

I agree with the sentiment, but this is not something I can send my colleagues.

You can be annoyed and right, and still avoid being crass.

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talking517today at 12:44 AM

mental health is really important and there seems to be a growing trends of folks making comments on HN like this who sound really burnt out. burn out can be hard to place, ive been through it and in now way do i share this reflection. ide rather reach across the isle and just help someone vs. go on HN and complain like this.

aeturnumtoday at 12:41 AM

I do think that pasting AI responses gives "reading the encyclopedia entry at someone", which is quite rude and crass, but you can't open peoples' eyes with similar levels of rudeness. Especially when it's an accurate description. I appreciate a good screed and also think we are looking for a subtler tool.

jcgrillotoday at 12:36 AM

100%. Just because you can plagiarize basic correspondence doesn't mean it's OK.