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It's an interesting dilemma, since if I know that an email was written mostly with AI, it feels to me like the author didn't put effort in, and thus I won't put

It's an interesting dilemma, since if I know that an email was written mostly with AI, it feels to me like the author didn't put effort in, and thus I won't put much effort into reading the email. I had a conversation with my manager about the implications of everyone using AI to write/summarise everything. The end result will most likely be staff getting Copilot to generate a report, then their manager uses Copilot to summarise the report and generate a new report for their manager, ad inifinitum. Eventually all context is lost, busywork is amplified, and nobody gains anything.

chii 1y ago
> Eventually all context is lost, busywork is amplified why not fire everyone in between the top-most manager and the actual "worker" doing the work, as the report could be generated with the correct level of summary?
- wiz21c 1y ago
  as google seems to do (seen that other HN post today) https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/27/google-executive-says-company-has-cut-a-third-of-its-managers.html https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/27/google-executive-says-compan...
- manmademagic 1y ago
  Mostly because there are different depths of reporting required depending who you’re creating said reports for. Often it’s unnecessary bureaucracy, but also often the ones doing the “actual work” don’t have a full understanding of how what they’re working on interacts with other parts of a system. (I mean this broadly, and not just related to software development) Middle management can sometimes be good at this, because they may actually have the time to step back and take a holistic look at things. It’s not always easy to do that when you’re deep in the weeds with clients, managers, colleagues, or direct reports bugging you about misc things. Overall I think (or hope) the more useless reporting will die a slow death, but I also think there’ll be a loooooong period of AI slop before we reach the point where everyone says “why are we actually doing this?”
osn9363739 1y ago
My experience has been interesting. I have been sending super short, mostly dot point emails since before LLMS. Pre ChatGPT I used to cop a bit of shit about it. Now thought, people love it.

chii 1y ago

> Eventually all context is lost, busywork is amplified why not fire everyone in between the top-most manager and the actual "worker" doing the work, as the report could be generated with the correct level of summary?

wiz21c 1y ago
as google seems to do (seen that other HN post today) https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/27/google-executive-says-company-has-cut-a-third-of-its-managers.html https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/27/google-executive-says-compan...
manmademagic 1y ago
Mostly because there are different depths of reporting required depending who you’re creating said reports for. Often it’s unnecessary bureaucracy, but also often the ones doing the “actual work” don’t have a full understanding of how what they’re working on interacts with other parts of a system. (I mean this broadly, and not just related to software development) Middle management can sometimes be good at this, because they may actually have the time to step back and take a holistic look at things. It’s not always easy to do that when you’re deep in the weeds with clients, managers, colleagues, or direct reports bugging you about misc things. Overall I think (or hope) the more useless reporting will die a slow death, but I also think there’ll be a loooooong period of AI slop before we reach the point where everyone says “why are we actually doing this?”

osn9363739 1y ago

My experience has been interesting. I have been sending super short, mostly dot point emails since before LLMS. Pre ChatGPT I used to cop a bit of shit about it. Now thought, people love it.