Trust: Long time to build, short time to destroy

In a comment on that page, Steven Garrity says

> Also, generative AI undermines trust not just in your own system/product, but for all systems/products.

I think this may be an underappreciated thing. I've been seeing more and more people distrusting things generally because of this. It's not just trust in specific products, services, or companies that is at risk. It's trust in a broad swath of society in general.

And it couldn't have come at a worst time, since trust was already in short supply to begin with, including trust in the tech sector.

>The intern who files most things perfectly but has, more than once, tipped an entire cup of coffee into the filing cabinet is going to be remembered as “that klutzy intern we had to fire.

On the flip side, "we" will be remembered as people who fired a diligent worker because of a coffee cup mishap. It cuts both ways. I avoid people who act as if every one else ought to be spotless.

I recently went through a period of abysmal performance and had this very adage recounted to me. I was told I had developed a reputation for high productivity over time but that recently it was eroded to more or less zero.*

* my fault for being so insecure that I couldn't share that I was drowning ... could be a culture thing could be me -- it was probably me.