I can understand that there are situations where you just can't type out the answer and those exceptions are of course fine, but if you post a voice message or god forbid a video message in a group chat you are forcing everyone to take the time and sit through it.
It's so normalized there that I wonder whether this is a particularly Spanish habit. Maybe there are a bunch of countries where people routinely leave each other voice recordings on WhatsApp/Messenger/etc, and I just haven't been to them yet.
Won't be doing that again!
1) long voice memos over succinctly typed notes
2) not forming lines/queues and just mobbing the train/shop/etc
3) habitually late or not on time
Also even queueing can have different norms. Here people rush to a newly opened supermarket checkout like their life depended on it. I feel that should be a lot less sociably acceptable than it is, especially for those with overfilled carts that will add huge delays for anyone behind them.
Fortunately my colleagues were very understanding, and I reverted back to text once I could type reasonably well and with minimal pain again.
Also, circular sawblades are terrifying.
Too bad that’s not more universal.
To the semi-literate a few paragraphs of text represent a significant investment of their time.
I suspect we're both right, just on different occasions.
So their output from an llm has the halo/ikea/endowment effect and they want to show off what they “wrote.”
Writing is actually super easy. Editing and writing well is the hard part. It’s like co-workers who wrote a terrible book being excited just because they wrote a book.
I hate genAI deeply, for many reasons, but one of them is the way it bastardizes and ruins the written word.
It writes incoherent, worthless prose, taking hundreds of words where two sentences would do.
The signal-to-noise ratio in genAI writing is just wretched.
Yes, I can read the thousand-word ball of muck you pasted from Claude in about thirty seconds, but it could have been one second had you used your mind instead of committing a worthless act that cost me time and gained both of us nothing.
Either you haven't used GenAI in a few years, you've only used bad ones, you're really bad at using them, or all of the above.
> I hate genAI deeply, for many reasons
Probably explains the above issues. In my experience people who don't want things to be good:
a) Always find them to be bad
b) Are always bad at using them
So yeah, maybe every single person in my company sucks at Claude, or maybe Claude just actually sucks at writing and you don't know what bad writing looks like
So if the goal is "writing" and they are using Claude, then they do in fact suck at it.
Its like using a butter knife instead of a screwdriver. It might work if you waste enough effort, but will never do the same quality of work a screwdriver can.
I use Claude every day, by corporate mandate, generally with Opus 4.8 or 5, but sometimes Sonnet 5 (per corporate demand to both use LLMs heavily and simultaneously keep the bills within a budget).
I hate doing it, but I get results my coworkers, PMs, and end users are happy with.
> Probably explains the above issues. In my experience people who don't want things to be good...
I admit regularly that LLMs do amazing things. They're astonishingly good at breaking security, for instance.
That doesn't mean I like them.
And no, they really are not good at writing.
When you feel the impulse to be defensive, that's often a sign that asking questions will be more worthwhile than leaping into the defensive posture.
I don't mean to be defensive, just to point out that most of the statements you made are provably and obviously untrue... And given that you admit bias that's the most likely explanation.
I hadn't considered that you have experience, but only with one that is legitimately bad at this particular thing because someone forced it onto you. Fair enough.
We don't all have to like the same things.
People are just afraid of billionaires becoming trillionaires and not having food and shelter