And they'll claim productivity was increased on both ends
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That'll be ten thousand dollars and your water supply please
cash or card?
And the end bullet point is also wrong!
So was the long list.
It's like that game were you whisper into one persons ear and they pass in on. By the end the message is completely different.
The inverted compression algorithm
Management loves AI because management's job is to write emails and reports, not to actually communicate meaningful information.
Normalise terse and succinct communication and life will be less fucking stupid. The problem does not reside in the tool but in our garbage culture of waste.
"Please run the formatter so the checks pass on the PR" is a perfectly fine and polite statement. Some people act like they're being attacked.
It's like file compression, but the other way round.
The question is: the bullet point written and the bullet point read will differ.
Most of the time yes. But sometimes no. Only way to know for sure is to read the original point.
The truly hilarious thing in this scenario is that the bullet point he wrote and the bullet point she gets will be completely different. Their communication will be literally lost in translation.
I predicted this 6 years ago. It's automating corpo email ceremonies. Now all we need is to turn this into a chat app for this.
The fact that I have heard company executives talk about both of these activities unironically within the span of the same meeting damages my calm
It works best if you presume that nobody else exists on planet Earth who will use AI beside them.
The Rich will have access to AI, the Poors will have to struggle along without, like an upgrade to how contracts, terms & licensing agreements do now.
Case in point: self-hosters today must develop defenses against AI attacks, while websites such as Facebook/Insta/Threads and (fuck-)Reddit and X(hitter) work just fine and provide a "premium" connectivity experience, not so subtlety pushing people towards using the paid rather than free services.
Enhance your calm
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