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>Creating the necessary prose is torturous for most of us, so Bob fires up the LLM du jour, types in “Please create a 4 paragraph long business case for my mana
by jasode 1y ago
>Creating the necessary prose is torturous for most of us, so Bob fires up the LLM du jour, types in “Please create a 4 paragraph long business case for my manager, explaining why I need to replace my old, slow computer” and copies the result into his email.
>Bob’s manager receives 4 paragraphs of dense prose and realises from the first line that he’s going to have to read the whole thing carefully to work out what he’s being asked for and why. Instead, he copies the email into the LLM du jour and types at the start “Please summarise this email for me in one sentence”. The 4 paragraphs are summarised as “The sender needs a new computer as his current one is old and slow and makes him unproductive.”
Sam Altman actually had a concise tweet about this blog's topic (https://x.com/sama/status/1631394688384270336 https://x.com/sama/status/1631394688384270336)
>something very strange about people writing bullet points, having ChatGPT expand it to a polite email, sending it, and the sender using ChatGPT to condense it into the key bullet points 2:42 PM · Mar 2, 2023 · 1.2M Views
- unglaublich 1y agoIt's not really strange, is it? Business and politeness etiquette requires a certain phrasing that is typically more tedious than the core information of a message. Now that decorating any message with such fluff is automated, we can as well drop the requirement and just state clearly what we want without fluff.
- watwut 1y agoI do not know about where these people live, but managers did not read long emails for years already. Not that blame them, but this world where they would actually want those 4 paragraphs essays did not existed for years.
- simoncion 1y agoBecause of this, I tend to structure my business communications as "Sentence or five that best conveys what I want from (or want to tell) the reader, followed by the required background and/or supporting information required to understand the problem being described, or justify the request being made.". However, you can't do much of anything to deal with people who stop reading at the first sentence or question. Those folks are hopeless.
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