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It's a bit aggressive to send someone mindless AI chatspam. We should consider such behavior a direct affront.

Wtf is with this excuse-making for abandoning the bare minimum of professional competency?

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I agree with the sentiment, but this is not something I can send my colleagues.

You can be annoyed and right, and still avoid being crass.

Perhaps this falls into "how to have hard conversations" bucket?

If I told my coworker that his or her "brain is a gizmo" and to "not reproduce" I would expect to be frog marched out the door a few minutes later.

"Your brain is a gizmo" doesn't sound very harsh to me, but "please don't reproduce" would be a problem in any reasonable workplace.

mental health is really important and there seems to be a growing trends of folks making comments on HN like this who sound really burnt out. burn out can be hard to place, ive been through it and in now way do i share this reflection. ide rather reach across the isle and just help someone vs. go on HN and complain like this.

100%. Just because you can plagiarize basic correspondence doesn't mean it's OK.

I do think that pasting AI responses gives "reading the encyclopedia entry at someone", which is quite rude and crass, but you can't open peoples' eyes with similar levels of rudeness. Especially when it's an accurate description. I appreciate a good screed and also think we are looking for a subtler tool.

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