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As a website owner I have seen major upticks in viewership myself but really it hits hard when you see an Ai summary that is wrong and your sites there. The whole Ai for everything push unfortunatly will downskill the world I fear and nothing can be done about it.

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> downskill the world

I feel this. I asked a developer today a question about how our product is programmed to handle something, and he just sent me a summary from the internal AI assistant they've started using.

He used to provide really good, thoughtful answers, but now it's just copy/paste from the AI.

> He used to provide really good, thoughtful answers

This hits hard. There’s a senior engineer at my job who is known for well written proposals. Today he shared a doc that had the typical AI formatting, was hard to read, and clearly not his style.

On the other hand, if others use AI to summerize stuff, does it matter anymore?

it does, if that's all they're doing then why do you need them, you can do bad ai summaries of things yourself.

I have a co-worker who does this now. He's very smart, very capable, very experienced and it's clear that he's just a frontend for Claude now. It's tragic.

Maybe organize to give these workers more equity or rev share instead of just a wage so they care more for quality results instead of the behaviors they’re evaluated on and you’ll find them more pleasant to work with.

I offered an opinion in the previous version of this comment that was unhelpful to the discussion, even if the subject of the opinion was anonymous. Can't see how to delete a comment so I'm editing this instead.

Maybe he keeps more plates spinning ... in his side projects. Clearly, developers are expected to produce more results with LLMs and switch between contexts quickly. It shouldn't be surprising that everyone may be running their own thing(s) on the side now.

That will only encourage this behavior

I'm not his boss; I'm on a different team. But we're a very small company with very good compensation and revenue share in the company.

That ain't it.

There's no metrics or KPIs that encourage more AI use? (In his team?)

(I guess you would have mentioned already)

As much has many people have voluntarily given into this, a while lot have been pushed into it at work. When the new norm is to be able to deliver everything instantly, quality has to suffer. As much I miss carefully hand rolling all my code under relatively generous deadlines, those days are gone.

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