> Someone is using an LLM to speak to you. Apart from it being generic sounding, there is still someone out there that is trying to communicate with you.

The LLM cannot know anything about what this person intended to communicate that they did not tell it. So why not just say it to me directly? Could it be because then they can't have their trivial idea blown up into a 5-paragraph essay with 3 bullet-pointed lists to make it look like they did their homework?

> I mean, just answer their question and move on with your life. Is that so fucking hard?

Compared to the effort they put in? Yes. The problem isn't absolute effort, it's asymmetry of effort. Recently a salesman had an LLM scan my LinkedIn and my employer's website and send me a cold email filled with irrelevant and mostly incorrect details about my personal background and our product, trying to create the impression that he did a great deal of research about us. I replied to tell him that it was obvious what he was doing and received a classic Claude-generated non-apology in response. The whole thing was automated from start to finish. Zero effort on the part of the actual dirtbag behind it.

> An LLM is simply acting as the bridge.

What bridge is necessary? If you have my email address and something to say, then say it! The only reason to use an LLM is to fake effort in the hopes that I'll feel obliged to put actual effort into my response.