Will AI help you in your career? No. Not if anyone finds out, anyway. Today in science discovering the obvious, if you use chatbots to pump out the AI slop at work, your coworkers think you’re an i…
A good 20% of my weekly workload is writing summaries of reports that I know nobody reads.
I haven’t had a raise in years. They say there no room in the budget but won’t entertain any solutions that cut costs.
So I gave myself a raise while I’m looking for other opportunities.
Mine is not a usual situation. I don’t recommend LLMs for work that matters in the least. I’m just killing some mindless busywork while people wonder why my brain hasn’t melted from it yet.
I’ll probably not read the summary you wrote of the report I also probably wouldn’t read, so I really don’t care about your use of LLM because that’s fine. You have a soul crushingly stupid job responsibility and I wish you well in your efforts to find better.
What I can’t stand are:
Someone had something to convey that could have been a sentence, but had to make it “professionally” long and used an LLM to drag it out. This isn’t new, but it’s more common now thanks to LLM making it effortless.
Someone who refuses to answer “I don’t know” to a question, but act like they do know instead, particularly using LLMs to fake it nowadays. I could have asked the LLM myself if that would have worked. I’ve seen this exchange too much:
“I’m having an issue with X”
“<suspiciously verbose answer that sounds like it could be relevant, but has nothing at all to do with X>”
“Uhhh, that was a bunch of unhelpful irrelevant nonsense, let me rephrase X in case you misunderstood”
“Oh if it was unhelpful, that wasn’t my fault, I was using ChatGPT”
They try to get by faking it with LLM, then blame the LLM for any mistakes. Yes, it is your fault, you used the LLM and you tried not to disclose it because you wanted to take credit.
A good 20% of my weekly workload is writing summaries of reports that I know nobody reads.
I haven’t had a raise in years. They say there no room in the budget but won’t entertain any solutions that cut costs.
So I gave myself a raise while I’m looking for other opportunities.
Mine is not a usual situation. I don’t recommend LLMs for work that matters in the least. I’m just killing some mindless busywork while people wonder why my brain hasn’t melted from it yet.
I’ll probably not read the summary you wrote of the report I also probably wouldn’t read, so I really don’t care about your use of LLM because that’s fine. You have a soul crushingly stupid job responsibility and I wish you well in your efforts to find better.
What I can’t stand are: Someone had something to convey that could have been a sentence, but had to make it “professionally” long and used an LLM to drag it out. This isn’t new, but it’s more common now thanks to LLM making it effortless.
Someone who refuses to answer “I don’t know” to a question, but act like they do know instead, particularly using LLMs to fake it nowadays. I could have asked the LLM myself if that would have worked. I’ve seen this exchange too much:
Genuinely I would ask for their resignation if it was in my power to fire them