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“ChatGPT said this” Is Lazy (terriblesoftware.org)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 127 points 7 months ago (6 children)

I’m getting that more and more. “I asked ChatGPT and it said”. Dude, we work for the same company and I could have typed that in, and maybe I did. I wanted your experience with it, that’s why I asked you.

Make sure they know they just lost input right ms the next time. No, I don’t ask Harry, he just quoted GPT last time, and I’d already asked it this time so there was no reason to involve him. Nothing worse for a lead than people not wanting them to lead because they’ve abdicated the job to spicy autocorrect.

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  • [–] 42 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Dude, we work for the same company and I could have typed that in, and maybe I did. I wanted your experience with it, that’s why I asked you.

    To me it's like sending the "let me google that for you" link to answer a question. It's just bad form. I don't want your whole reasoning trace man, i just want to know what you understand of it and maybe you'll catch some detail i'm missing or whatever. It's simple, i won't read LLM output, my colleagues know it and i get shit for it but no i am not digesting this material for you. Give me a 3 bullet-point version in your own words, the point is not just in the data exchange it's also to make sure you are aware of the answer and we have a common truth.

    Or failing that, just give me the fucking prompt and at least i'll know if you understand the question.

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  • [–] 20 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I think this is the way. A certain number of times of “[coworker] wasn’t asked because they only respond with LLMs, so I just ask the LLMs directly. I am not sure what [coworker]’s expertise is anymore, I just don’t consult them” and I suspect coworker may in fact stop responding with LLMs.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Maybe. But they may just paste it without GPT attribution, so we’ll see.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    In my experience it is obvious. Calling people on it also makes them feel embarrassed usually. I put something like “I can just ask an LLM myself if I wanted this output. Please provide your own commentary.” If I were a manager and I had an employee just copy pasting that kind of output, I’d probably wonder if that employee actually contributes anything.

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