a == b

AI use has been strongly encouraged around my work, but not required so far. I see people using it all the time to summarize meeting notes, but just last week i had to be in a huge email thread (on a non-work thing) to figure out the date for something because someone used AI to summarize a separate email thread and it incorrectly listed an earlier suggestion as the final decision. I sure don't want to spent the last few years of my working life editing AI slop.

@wjcstp i'm glad they're not requiring it, but UGH i hate how popular it's becoming even when people can see daily evidence that it fails. it's like we keep digging ourselves deeper down the hole to accommodate for it.

and hard same, i don't want the back half of my career being "mop up the slime trail behind the AI" - i spent a few months arguing with my supervisor about the energy expended on exactly this:
"i let the AI gather research materials for me as you suggested, and guess what? every single source it cited did NOT say what it claimed it did, so i had to do the research all over again. now i've spent more time on this project than i would have!"
(whereupon she would go "i understand, but maybe it will work with THIS prompt?" and the cycle continued until i finally won the argument)

@nikkuneko We'll get there, one argument at a time

@wjcstp hah, yes, one battle at a time!

(also, i hope your non-work incident scared people off using LLMs for a while 😹)