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I mean, I think such communication serves a purpose, how is it much different than boilerplate code?

tyingq 6y ago
The example seems to indicate it could create issues. It's conjuring, for example "after weeks of hard work" from thin air. There's nothing in the input to suggest that phrase makes contextual sense. Though perhaps the example isn't a real world one.
- aequitas 6y ago
  > It's conjuring, for example "after weeks of hard work" from thin air. I think this is not that dissimilar from a human writer. Recruiter email's come to mind as an example of this as well.
  - tyingq 6y ago
    I'd hope a human writer would have guessed the effort to create a startup company and product was more than "weeks of hard work" though.
    - jacobr1 6y ago
      I don't know, I get both recruiter emails as a hiring manager and as a potential hire. The majority them try to be familiar, each seems to fail with a different detail. Some guess my location incorrectly, or talk about a product launch from a competitor (attributing it to us) or get our industry wrong, or present skill-sets we don't need in a way that it describes them as being a core part of our architecture, or congratulates us on vague recent successes that could potentially apply to anyone. I had one last week that congratulated me on having a recent child (not the case) from I presume some badly matched social media profile with someone sharing a similar name. I get 2-10 of these a day and I really don't see many that take the time to actual do any research. It is clear most of form-fills, based on some kind of automated data collection or just tossing a wide net.
  - drewzero1 6y ago
    Yeah, but what if I'm sending an email to say that I finished a big project the recipient asked me to work on a few days ago? I don't want my email to say I've been working for weeks when the reader knows that's not true. Maybe I'm missing the intended use case for this tool?

The example seems to indicate it could create issues. It's conjuring, for example "after weeks of hard work" from thin air. There's nothing in the input to suggest that phrase makes contextual sense. Though perhaps the example isn't a real world one.

aequitas 6y ago
> It's conjuring, for example "after weeks of hard work" from thin air. I think this is not that dissimilar from a human writer. Recruiter email's come to mind as an example of this as well.
- tyingq 6y ago
  I'd hope a human writer would have guessed the effort to create a startup company and product was more than "weeks of hard work" though.
  - jacobr1 6y ago
    I don't know, I get both recruiter emails as a hiring manager and as a potential hire. The majority them try to be familiar, each seems to fail with a different detail. Some guess my location incorrectly, or talk about a product launch from a competitor (attributing it to us) or get our industry wrong, or present skill-sets we don't need in a way that it describes them as being a core part of our architecture, or congratulates us on vague recent successes that could potentially apply to anyone. I had one last week that congratulated me on having a recent child (not the case) from I presume some badly matched social media profile with someone sharing a similar name. I get 2-10 of these a day and I really don't see many that take the time to actual do any research. It is clear most of form-fills, based on some kind of automated data collection or just tossing a wide net.
- drewzero1 6y ago
  Yeah, but what if I'm sending an email to say that I finished a big project the recipient asked me to work on a few days ago? I don't want my email to say I've been working for weeks when the reader knows that's not true. Maybe I'm missing the intended use case for this tool?