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   Quinn Norton (quinn@social.circl.lu)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 08:26:18 JST Quinn Norton

   Am I literally the only person who looked at, and tried, a couple things with AI and decided welp, that's harder and more annoying than just doing it myself?

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     Quinn Norton (quinn@social.circl.lu)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 08:28:35 JST Quinn Norton

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     • Derick Rethans

     @derickr I just keep thinking the novelty is going to wear off and people will just go back to doing things, and not just herding scripts around, but I kind of thought that would have happened by now.

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     Derick Rethans (derickr@phpc.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 08:28:36 JST Derick Rethans

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     @quinn Nope.

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     Quinn Norton (quinn@social.circl.lu)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 11:10:08 JST Quinn Norton

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     • raganwald 🍓

     @raganwald yeah, i suppose i'm a pretty big consumer of text to speech stuff, given i have some text disability from my neck injury times. but beyond that, eh

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     raganwald 🍓 (raganwald@social.bau-ha.us)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 11:10:10 JST raganwald 🍓

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     @quinn Not the only person, no, but I maintain a small quantity of empathy for demographics such as users who speak English as a second language.

     If even unreliable genAI can help such a person write a cover letter for their resumé that gets them an interview, I get it. The fact that I prefer to write my own text by 1000% doesn't change the fact that my preference is grounded in a strong English and communications education.

     JM2C, most of genAI is absolute 🐕💩

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     Quinn Norton (quinn@social.circl.lu)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 20:54:35 JST Quinn Norton

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     • Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD

     @joebeone i have a deep hatred for word salad tasks 😂 like, not for doing them, existentially hating them.

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     Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD (joebeone@techpolicy.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 20:54:36 JST Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD

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     @quinn even for like word salad tasks that you would think it should be good at

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     Quinn Norton (quinn@social.circl.lu)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 21:42:03 JST Quinn Norton

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     • Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD

     @joebeone i think we all know that's for the best.

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     Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD (joebeone@techpolicy.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 21:42:04 JST Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD

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     @quinn never be an executive

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     Quinn Norton (quinn@social.circl.lu)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 22:36:48 JST Quinn Norton

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     • Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel

     @alper I don't code, but boyo does my partner not love ai generated pull requests

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     Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel (alper@rls.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 22:36:50 JST Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel

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     @quinn For programming I think most of it is cope: Not-technicals already think that coding is a kind of "magic". Of course they're not going to respond rationally when they see a machine that can produce "magic" at will.