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Had a senior exec pick up his phone, punch some words into AI, then as-it-was-generating-a-response flip it around and put it in front of me. This shit has pro

Had a senior exec pick up his phone, punch some words into AI, then as-it-was-generating-a-response flip it around and put it in front of me. This shit has progressed well past seriousness and into the absurd

eddythompson80 2mo ago
It’s truly unhinged behavior that has me questioning how much longer I want to remain in the industry. You always knew that 80% of the people on any team or in any large company just didn’t care. But now you see who these people are out in the open. I had a guy with more senior title say “I love the new api and cli. Is anyone working on the docs? Because I can take a crack at them” then goes to generate 12 markdown files, and shares them with me. All the cli commands and APIs are wrong. I was very confused. You have the api spec, and the cli. You couldn’t point your agent to them to validated the commands and the api? He replies “oh that’s a good idea. I just described them to the agent and thought you could review and fix mistakes”
- lilbigdoot 2mo ago
  Reading this is nightmare fuel right before I go to bed omg
  - Gigachad 2mo ago
    I have a friend who works in healthcare and he says patients now regularly pull out their phone and ask him to talk to their chatbot. Anything he says to them, they immediately repeat to ChatGPT and ask if it’s correct.
    - weatherlite 2mo ago
      Cos patients often don't understand shit from a 3 minute tired and distracted doctor interaction, it's particulary bad in hospitals. I don't really blame them.
    - jdub 2mo ago
      "Look! I have one job on this lousy ship, it's stupid, but I'm gonna do it! Okay?" - Gwen DeMarco, Galaxy Quest
    - antisthenes 2mo ago
      Given the state of the US healthcare industry and how little shit some doctors give (and some are legitimately overworked), this isn't as absurd as it sounds.
- weatherlite 2mo ago
  > has me questioning how much longer I want to remain in the industry The effect is less pronounced in other industries but they're gonna catch up. Might take a decade for some of them , perhaps even 20 years for the rare ones like nursing but the trend is quite clear.
  - eddythompson80 2mo ago
    Politicians too apparently. There was this gem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlYa8NV5k-U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlYa8NV5k-U
- BLKNSLVR 2mo ago
  My giddy aunt. Oh, for the testing required by any customer of any software vendor any time from now to forever more, as a result of the possibility of this level of irresponsible outsourcing of brain. Enshittification is a new word/concept, but it seems we've already reached the potential for enshittification squared.
  - varjag 2mo ago
    Shitgularity is here, it's just unevenly smeared. It is clear though that virtually all degradation we have is in human capital and social sphere against the background of staggering technical capability.
    - smuemd 2mo ago
      well put
  - layer8 2mo ago
    > enshittification squared I thought AI is an exponential?
    - selimthegrim 2mo ago
      a sigmoid as in sigmoid colon
- anal_reactor 2mo ago
  > You always knew that 80% of the people on any team or in any large company just didn’t care. But now you see who these people are out in the open. The system does NOT reward caring. That's the problem.
- notnullorvoid 2mo ago
  > has me questioning how much longer I want to remain in the industry. It's not a bad time to take a break from it. Keep yourself from cognitive decline, then in 2 or 3 years when the industry has come to its senses you'll be able to impress in a sensible interview. Compared to the slop addicts that won't know how to tie their own shoes without asking Claude each time.
nor0x 2mo ago
will point my phone with an AI app back to process the output

eddythompson80 2mo ago

It’s truly unhinged behavior that has me questioning how much longer I want to remain in the industry. You always knew that 80% of the people on any team or in any large company just didn’t care. But now you see who these people are out in the open. I had a guy with more senior title say “I love the new api and cli. Is anyone working on the docs? Because I can take a crack at them” then goes to generate 12 markdown files, and shares them with me. All the cli commands and APIs are wrong. I was very confused. You have the api spec, and the cli. You couldn’t point your agent to them to validated the commands and the api? He replies “oh that’s a good idea. I just described them to the agent and thought you could review and fix mistakes”

lilbigdoot 2mo ago
Reading this is nightmare fuel right before I go to bed omg
- Gigachad 2mo ago
  I have a friend who works in healthcare and he says patients now regularly pull out their phone and ask him to talk to their chatbot. Anything he says to them, they immediately repeat to ChatGPT and ask if it’s correct.
  - weatherlite 2mo ago
    Cos patients often don't understand shit from a 3 minute tired and distracted doctor interaction, it's particulary bad in hospitals. I don't really blame them.
  - jdub 2mo ago
    "Look! I have one job on this lousy ship, it's stupid, but I'm gonna do it! Okay?" - Gwen DeMarco, Galaxy Quest
  - antisthenes 2mo ago
    Given the state of the US healthcare industry and how little shit some doctors give (and some are legitimately overworked), this isn't as absurd as it sounds.
weatherlite 2mo ago
> has me questioning how much longer I want to remain in the industry The effect is less pronounced in other industries but they're gonna catch up. Might take a decade for some of them , perhaps even 20 years for the rare ones like nursing but the trend is quite clear.
- eddythompson80 2mo ago
  Politicians too apparently. There was this gem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlYa8NV5k-U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlYa8NV5k-U
BLKNSLVR 2mo ago
My giddy aunt. Oh, for the testing required by any customer of any software vendor any time from now to forever more, as a result of the possibility of this level of irresponsible outsourcing of brain. Enshittification is a new word/concept, but it seems we've already reached the potential for enshittification squared.
- varjag 2mo ago
  Shitgularity is here, it's just unevenly smeared. It is clear though that virtually all degradation we have is in human capital and social sphere against the background of staggering technical capability.
  - smuemd 2mo ago
    well put
- layer8 2mo ago
  > enshittification squared I thought AI is an exponential?
  - selimthegrim 2mo ago
    a sigmoid as in sigmoid colon
anal_reactor 2mo ago
> You always knew that 80% of the people on any team or in any large company just didn’t care. But now you see who these people are out in the open. The system does NOT reward caring. That's the problem.
notnullorvoid 2mo ago
> has me questioning how much longer I want to remain in the industry. It's not a bad time to take a break from it. Keep yourself from cognitive decline, then in 2 or 3 years when the industry has come to its senses you'll be able to impress in a sensible interview. Compared to the slop addicts that won't know how to tie their own shoes without asking Claude each time.

nor0x 2mo ago

will point my phone with an AI app back to process the output