Comment by ryandvm

Comment by ryandvm 2 days ago

I had an experience earlier this week that was kind of surreal.

I'm working with a fairly arcane technical spec that I don't really understand so well so I ask Claude to evaluate one of our internal proposals on this spec for conformance. It highlights a bunch of mistakes in our internal proposal.

I send those off to someone in our company that's supposed to be an authority on the arcane spec with the warning that it was LLM generated so it might be nonsense.

He feeds my message to his LLM and asks it to evaluate the criticisms. He then messages me back with the response from his LLM and asks me what I think.

We are functionally administrative assistants for our AIs.

If this is the future of software development, I don't like it.

xeonmc 2 days ago

In your specific case, I think it’s likely an intentionally pointed response to your use of LLM.

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jetsnoc a day ago

I'll admit it. I've done this, but only a few times and only when someone sent me truly egregious AI slop—the kind where it's obvious no human that respects my time ever looked at it.
My reaction is usually, "Oh, we're doing this? Fine." I'll even prompt my LLM with something like, "Make it sound as corporate and AI-generated as possible." Or, if I'm feeling especially petty, "Write this like you're trying to win the 2025 award for Most Corporate Nonsense, and you're a committee at a Fortune 500 company competing to generate the most boilerplate possible." It's petty, sure, but there's something oddly cathartic about responding to slop with slop.

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ryandvm 2 days ago

I'm certain it wasn't in this particular case, but yeah, that's definitely going to happen as we all become more annoyed by people shoveling AI-generated crap in our faces and asking us to think about it for them.

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