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I had a dude in a conversation non-ironically use "load-bearing." I could only follow up with, "that is a genuine insight." Not a single person visibly flinch
by genxy 5mo ago
I had a dude in a conversation non-ironically use "load-bearing."
I could only follow up with, "that is a genuine insight."
Not a single person visibly flinched in pain.
- scottyah 5mo agoCareful, you might have been talking to a Real Engineer. Perhaps even a structural variant that use this phrase pretty much daily.
- genxy 5mo agoWe weren't talking about "seeing a man about a horse barn" we were talking about software.
- hhh 5mo agoyeah? it’s not that weird of a term
- dymk 5mo agoIt’s weird when someone starts using terminology that is heavily over-indexed by LLMs out of the blue.
- ajmurmann 5mo agoHuh, I've heard this term all the time at work and used it myself since long before LLMs
- dymk 5mo agoThen it's not weird because it's not out of the blue.
- Ey7NFZ3P0nzAe 5mo agoSame
- tomjakubowski 5mo agoIs it weird? Pretty much everyone's writing and speech is influenced to some degree by what they've read and heard in conversation. For better or for worse, it's only getting harder to avoid exposure to LLM generated prose.
- alexjplant 5mo agoLet's double-click on that. It's important to keep top of mind that using disruptive words and patterns in conversation isn't always driven by LLMs — reasoning from first principles tells us that problematic usages like this existed beforehand. One of my load-bearing career learnings is that people used this shape of language as a shibboleth long before game-changing tools like ChatGPT started slopping so much of what people read. It's a performant way of categorizing people into a very specific tech culture in-group based on vibes.
- ajmurmann 5mo agoI don't think it's performative or about vibes. Everyone subconsciously adopts phrases and in general ways of talking from people around them. May it be from friends, neighbors or coworkers.
- alexjplant 5mo agoNot incompatible with my satirical post (I wrote "performant," a notorious tech neologism, not performative). Whether subconsciously or not people 100000% use language to communicate and determine others' social tribe membership.
- ChrisClark 5mo agoI use load-bearing all the time, mostly in jokes about something
- dyauspitr 5mo agoThis highly depends on the context of the conversation. Were you by any chance talking about walls?
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- tomjakubowski 5mo agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRVExJZKIT8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRVExJZKIT8