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This email was 100% AI generated. I just edited a similar sentence from a claude code doc I'm writing - "we're not just X, we're fundamentally Y" is an obvious
by vdnkh 5mo ago
This email was 100% AI generated. I just edited a similar sentence from a claude code doc I'm writing - "we're not just X, we're fundamentally Y" is an obvious tell. I guess he's putting his money where his mouth is
- alexandre_m 5mo agoI think a lot of LLMs are trained on corporate communications, and since companies have been copying each other for years, it’s hard to tell them apart.
- esseph 5mo agoYep, it's 25+ years of corporate communications.
- turtlebits 5mo agoWho cares? If you're getting laid off, the only thing that really matters is the severance package. Its all lip service - either AI generated or hand written.
- lkbm 5mo ago> If you're getting laid off, the only thing that really matters is the severance package. I don't think this is true. Humans typically prefer "thanks for the hard work, here's your severance" to "you suck, here's your severance, loser." Humans like being treated with respect, and words are a big part of that. Money is nice, but it's not the only thing we care about.
- rozap 5mo agoIt's the only thing crypto folks care about, so idk, I think it's fitting.
- strken 5mo agoThe difference between the "thanks" email and the "loser" email is that the second one is intentionally disrespectful. I'm not convinced a polite but AI-written email hits the same note. At the very least it's unintentionally disrespectful, which isn't a direct challenge. Your boss doesn't care enough to write an email by hand, but also doesn't care enough to burn bridges and insult you.
- glaslong 5mo agoSo it isn't disrespectful, and neither is it respectful. A perfect nothing, not a thought or care involved. Like a 1-click eCard mailer.
- kuboble 5mo agoGenuine question. Let's say you are bad with words. If you ask AI to generate hundred different paragraphs and choose the one which best conveys what you actually feel and want to communicate. Is it is still a perfect nothing?
- friendzis 5mo ago> Is it is still a perfect nothing? You do get how that's worse, right? The person rather spends their time arguing with the clanker than thinking about the person and putting those thought into words, however unstructured they are.
- ultratalk 5mo agoYeah, but communication is a two-way street. It might not matter to me that my words are unstructured, but it will to the person I'm writing to if they can't make head nor tail of what I'm saying, or worse, misunderstand it as being insulting when it isn't.
- friendzis 5mo agoThere is a whole industry built around [mis-]conception that people will take less offense on the content if it was presented differently. The predictable result is that it is actually rewriting content, not the presentation or tone. No amount of linkedinese corporate fluffery will wash off the core message that people are getting laid off unless you outright hide the message under ambiguity of double-speak like "slimming down operations", which can mean multiple things. So essentially you have three choices: 1. Spend time writing (or have written by a copywriter) in corporate fluff dialect, where the actual message is still understandable by all parties. At the cost of appearing tone deaf. 2. Spend time reiterating with a bot that speaks some undefined sub-dialect of LLMinese where the reception of the message is unknown. At the cost of appearing even more tone deaf and insulting than a corporate cog. 3. Spend time restructuring message in genuine voice. At the cost of maybe being heard more harshly than intended. I fail to see how option 2 can be perceived as anything but the worst, unless you assume that the target audience does not distinguish LLMinese from actual speech.
- triceratops 5mo agoBut what if was "Thanks for the hard work, here's your legal minimum severance" vs "You suck, here's a lavish severance so you don't ever come back"?
- t43562 5mo agoMoney IS the ultimate respect. Talk is cheap. The only talk that has real value is "Hey, hire this guy - he's excellent and did an incredible job!"
- JV00 5mo agoWords are fake, money is real.
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- renticulous 5mo agoIn Fire & Blood, it is said "words are wind, but wind can fan a fire," so be polite folks.
- glaslong 5mo agoNoted. Handing bro a cool $20 instead when he asks me to dial 911
- maharajatever 5mo ago[dead]
- LightBug1 5mo agoQuaint.
- TitaRusell 5mo agoYeah but in American corporate culture workers are entirely disposable. Which ofcourse leads workers to treat their employers as disposable.
- lwhi 5mo agoIf the main guy's email is written by AI, at this point we're actually in an invasion of the body snatchers scenario. Who actually is required? .. fundamentally, it's only the person collecting payment.
- johannes1234321 5mo agoThere are other audiences, too. One group are the ones who are staying. They lose teammates, they have to restructure work and fear whether there will be another round soon, which may hit them. And then there are customers, investors, ... who need to be assured they are not dealing with a failing company.
- freejazz 5mo ago>Who cares? People with dignity.
- machomaster 5mo agoThis is just good writing, not a 100% proof of AI being used.
- cyberclimb 5mo ago> To get there, we are not just reducing headcount and cutting costs, we’re fundamentally changing how we operate: rebuilding Coinbase as an intelligence, with humans around the edge aligning it. For sure this part screams LLM
- wifipunk 5mo agoReminds me grok "We’re not building Skynet, we’re cutting costs and putting the survivors on prompt duty" Anything in that format gives that AI feel
- hansmayer 5mo ago+1 and the irony of this CEO-Idiot calling LLMs "intelligence" and putting people, the stupidest of which are 1000x orders of magnitude more intelligent than an LLM, in the second spot "aligning it", i.e. fixing the AI slop.
- Hendrikto 5mo ago> rebuilding Coinbase as an intelligence, with humans around the edge aligning it Wow. That’s my cue to never use Coinbase again.