Why can’t anyone be bothered anymore to write actual content, especially when writing about AI, where your whole audience is probably already exposed to these patterns in content day in, day out?
It comes off as so cheap.
The real insight: have some fucking pride in what you make, be it a blog post, or a piece of software.
The businessmen's job will be complete when they've totally eliminated all pride from work.
Also, automation and pride can go hand in hand. Pride doesn't mean "make it by hand," that would be silly.
But it's a fallacy to apply it elsewhere and there are millions of examples where the free market failed to optimize a product.
No. Have you worked with businessmen? 90% of the time they're telling you to cut corners and leave things broken, to the point you have a janky mess that can be barely held together. And, right now, we're talking about a technology (LLMs) that is well known to introduce stupid but often hard to spot errors.
They don't want a pencil that's perfect. They want one that's just barely good enough to write with and that they can get maximum profit margin on.
And then, you know, there's the whole thing about life being more than output.
You're not getting it. It'd probably help if you stopped focusing on your pencil story, it's frankly off-topic.
To try one more time: You probably spend half your waking ours at work. The quality of that time is important to your well being. Even if the businessmen sell you cheap, perfect pencils (which I do not grant), swimming in them in your off hours won't help with the other half of your time.
I've no idea what this italicisation is meant to do; nor why this is off-topic. Stating things isn't explaining them.
> Even if the businessmen sell you cheap, perfect pencils (which I do not grant), swimming in them in your off hours won't help with the other half of your time.
It helps in that I don't have to spend as much of my time working to buy pencils. It's the same with everything. There's no reason why a laptop doesn't cost $1m except that the incredible, detailed, cross-continent cooperative work is done by experts and coordinated by a market for that work driving costs down and quality up.
The brands that do have a claim to "perfection" necessarily had the pride to not participate in that race to the bottom.
"The real insight?"
> One panelist shared a personal story that crystallized the challenge: his wife refuses to let him use Tesla’s autopilot. Why? Not because it doesn’t work, but because she doesn’t trust it.
> Trust isn’t about raw capability, it’s about consistent, explainable, auditable behavior.
> One panelist described asking ChatGPT for family movie recommendations, only to have it respond with suggestions tailored to his children by name, Claire and Brandon. His reaction? “I don’t like this answer. Why do you know my son and my girl so much? Don’t touch my privacy.”
What I wonder is whether the author of the article recognized these patterns and didn’t care, didn’t even recognize them, or didn’t proofread the article?
> thanks, I used AI but aren't we all? I thought the point of AI is to get us to be more productive.
You've also repeatedly dismissed any criticism of the writing as "hate."
If you want readers to do you the favor of reading your work, please do them the favor of writing it.
Beyond the em dashes and overuse of "delve" etc. there is this distinctive style of composition I want to understand and recognize better
The way I see it is that the majority of people never bothered to write actual content. Now there’s a tool the non-writers can use to write dubious content.
I would wager this tool is being used much differently by actual writers focused on producing quality. There’s just way less of them, same way there is less of any specialization.
The real question with AI to me is whether it will remain consistently better when wielded by a specialist who has invested their time into whatever the thing is they are producing. If that ever changes then we are doomed. When it’s no longer slop…
Perhaps they can be called vibe bloggers?
What bothers me compared to code is that for software, the code is just a means to and end. But for articles, it’s much more than that.
I wonder how this will end up affecting our lives. Last week I saw a video that highlighted how AI is already affecting our vocabulary. It introduces words not typically used in American English (but more commonly used in Nigeria, where a lot of content writing is outsourced to) into mainstream media.
I can totally see how this will slowly start affecting language itself.
The tone of AI-written stuff sounds to me just like the soul-less SEO-optimized content marketing blog crap we saw the years before AI became a thing. Very prevalent on Linkedin too. It just sounds/reads so hopelessly artificial.
If I were to begin using AI to write stuff for me (comments or articles or whatever), I'd at least begin with having it train on the collection of everything I've written so far.