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But if I'm the askee, I honestly don't know how to navigate those waters yet.
If someone asks me for help and I can find, through AI, a thread to explore, but I don't have time to explore it myself, should I not share?
Do I say "Have you tried X?", where X is the thing the LLM suggested? Should I pretend that I did not ask the LLM?
In the past, I could find some source and send them the link, and I wouldn't assume the person had exhausted the entire Google index. Sending a link isn't the same as LMGTFY.
Analogously, while "Claude says X" does sound as rude as lmgtfy, disclosing that your suggestion was found via llm is more akin to linking to a source, or "take this with a grain of salt".
Interesting use of fewer.
The first time that happened, I had the courtesy to point out why the slop was incorrect... I don't know what that did for my social capital. I fear/suspect people are getting attached to their pet AI to the point of taking personal offence when called out.
In that sense AI slop is a symptom, not a disease. But perhaps also a catalyst.
I really wonder if there is a sort of silver lining here, and in the long term low value activities will be filtered out of society. Though that borders on the AI maximalist view which I don't fully agree with.
Of course the glaring question is what value even is.
If you say the trolley is blue, it goes straight, where there's a baby in the tracks. If the trolley is green, two grandmas die.
> Averages lie about the tails, and a person who gets a 15 cm bust error doesn’t care that the mean is 4 cm.
A variation of that sentence should be mandatory in every scientific paper.
Unless you mean you can practice socialisation at the mirror, or that you're willing to practice scales or solfege in public.
I think you've just answered yourself why.
Browsers are the most used applications on the planet. They have one chance to get an API right ("don't break the web"). They iterate on a new API for years. When they finally launch it, devs call it "clunky".
Not a fictitious example.
Then you could just prompt it to propose options with pros and cons etc.
* Bar extremely new stuff from after the cutoff