alt Hacker NewsSomething even more sad to me: my digital conversations with coworkers are seeming to often be another interface layer with an LLM.
Me: “What’s your thoughts on [technical issue]”
Them: (response ellipses and disproportionate delay) followed by a very thorough response.
The problem is when I talk to them in real-time, that same person that gives the thorough response now only has a superficial understanding. It’s unnerving when their “real” conversations start using turns-of-phrase that are common in LLMs (I’ve heard them referred to as “Claude-isms”)
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senderista • today at 5:02 PM
Maybe an unexpected "benefit" of being in the office: you get to discover your coworkers can't answer any questions without their clanker.
Exactly. It is a cancer to real interaction, and I don't really see how the internet can survive it outside of reinvention. I love LLMs, but mostly because I love learning. But what I hate is disingenuity. I personally could not stomach spewing an LLM-generated response at somebody without understanding exactly what's being said... because ideally, I wrote 99% of it. But that's the majority of online interactions these days. What other cure is there other than to leave screen space for meat space at every opportunity? Yet, for somebody like me who is ND, meat space has its own challenges, so it's tough all around to find the meaningful interactions I used to love but are quickly vanishing--and blissfully and joyfully at that.