> If I were to be real, my coworkers that post AI responses straight rarely had insightful comments before AI.
There's never been a shortage of low-value coworkers because hiring is hard and firing is unpleasant and painful in many ways.
But there's a weird phenomenon with AI where a lot of people are using it to actively call attention to the fact that they aren't doing anything but call the tools.
Rarely in the past have the I-just-want-to-coast-doing-the-minimum folks called so much attention to it!
Ironically, in synchronous conversations, the same co-worker is constantly going on about how swamped he is, and how he's being pulled in so many directions.
Apparently, it takes a lot of time and work to manage all those AI chat bots.
> Rarely in the past have the I-just-want-to-coast-doing-the-minimum folks called so much attention to it!
You seem to presume that they realize they're calling attention to it.
On Stack Overflow, there was this phenomenon for a while where people would blatantly copy and paste answers from ChatGPT, have them deleted, and then run to the meta site to complain. The complaint would either be in barely comprehensible broken English or in recognizable ChatGPT-ese. It would involve swearing up and down that no LLM assistance had been used. Looking at the user's history would reveal a gap of several years of not answering questions, and then the old answers would have the same barely comprehensible broken English (and often not be very good technically, either). The OP demonstrated a genuine complete inability to understand how obvious the ChatGPT use was.
This happened multiple times with different users.
There's never been a shortage of low-value coworkers because hiring is hard and firing is unpleasant and painful in many ways.
But there's a weird phenomenon with AI where a lot of people are using it to actively call attention to the fact that they aren't doing anything but call the tools.
Rarely in the past have the I-just-want-to-coast-doing-the-minimum folks called so much attention to it!