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OptionOfT • today at 6:25 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Sadly not my experience. When I give this kind of feedback on a document, highlight a gap, or give constructive feedback, most of the time this feedback is fed back to the AI and a new revision of the document shows up.

BUT because it is AI it's not that section that's addressed, it's about 90% of the document that now has changed, and I need to spend another gargantuan effort to review it. It's like by trying to be helpful I actually lose more time.

The AI has made it so that the thinking before writing is mostly gone, and shifted that step to the reviewers.


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saltcured • today at 7:04 PM

Left this way, every collaboration can turn into what used to be the worst nightmare type with that one unavoidable stakeholder or coauthor who likes to procrastinate and then create an insane fire drill in the final moments before a deadline.

Now, no matter the amount of preparation work, those last rounds can completely rewrite something with no hope of review. No iterative improvement. No ratcheting towards a known quality. Just a bunch of cargo cult review followed by YOLO-style, vibe-everything absurdity.