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Seems AI has made it cheap to produce information but now you have to spend more time parsing the information. And it’s now the less competent/useful people spe
by erentz 4mo ago
Seems AI has made it cheap to produce information but now you have to spend more time parsing the information. And it’s now the less competent/useful people spending less time producing more information with the more useful people spending more of their valuable time parsing that information. This is why I’m skeptical of LLMs ever becoming a net benefit in most organizations.
- trollbridge 4mo agoWell, you can use LLMs to parse LLM-generated slop. They make nice summaries. I have taken this approach to people who send me obviously generated LLM text; I simply run it through an LLM, paste the summary, and ask them "Is this an accurate summary?" and then I ask the for their original prompt.
- Sgt_Apone 4mo agoMight as well donate money to the AI companies at this point.
- erentz 4mo agoBut now even this is just producing more information and requires more work both of you and of the original sender.
- stoorafa 4mo agoLLMs are great at decompression [1] [1] https://jabde.com/2026/02/02/utilizing-llms-as-a-data-decompression-scheme/ https://jabde.com/2026/02/02/utilizing-llms-as-a-data-decomp...
- dr_sausages 4mo agoNice article! I wrote something similar this year too after seeing the 5-bullet-points of information stretched out with AI homologous slop too many times. https://www.vaines.org/posts/2026-01-26-jpeg-compression-for-thought/ https://www.vaines.org/posts/2026-01-26-jpeg-compression-for...
- dodu_ 4mo agoAh yes, take my single sentence, blow it up to 3 paragraphs with LLMs, and then the person reading it can have an LLM summarize it in a single sentence. What the fuck are we even doing anymore?
- ua709 4mo agoI wonder if that even works. Kinda like when kids play telephone I think it’s unlikely the input and output sentences actually match.
- anon84873628 4mo agoThe thing is, eventually these products will be more integrated into business workflows and have access to all the context, so the three paragraph expansion probably will be a significant improvement upon the original input. And either that person won't be employed anymore, of the thing they were asking for in the first place will be automated for them. I've already got my agent building a dossier for everyone we interact with. I haven't started training it on their writing style so I can mirror back to them... yet.
- BlackFly 4mo agoAs these products improve, one person sending the output and not the prompt will remain useless. The prompt captures the intent and level of real consideration of the person sending it, the receiver can augment that with additional information if they want to.
- anon84873628 4mo agoThat's like saying I should just send the English teacher a description of what my essay will be about, instead of actually writing it. It seems like no one responding to this understands scoped context retrieval.
- rurp 4mo agoProfessional communication has a completely different goal than a student essay, and it's weird you conflate the two. A student paper is useless as an artifact, the actual value is for the student to learn how to write the paper. If a coworker sends me a long email for me to read it should provide some actual value.
- throw310822 4mo ago> and then I ask the for their original prompt. Original prompt: "Please rewrite this information in a nice format for my insufferable asshole colleague".
- solid_fuel 4mo agoThis puts the LLM providers in a great position of: <prompt text> -> [PROVIDER] -> <lots of output text> -> [PROVIDER] -> <prompt text, mangled> They're getting paid to encode some inane prompt into paragraphs of text, and then they're getting paid again to summarize that back into something with even less value than the original prompt. And they're making money hand over fist because people are happier to play that game rather than just pushing back on the jerks sending them pages of generated garbage in the first place.
- trollbridge 4mo agoI would agree with you, except right now the walls of text come from people using the free or very cheap versions of ChatGPT, et al. So there's not even anyone making money off of it.
- insane_dreamer 4mo agoTelephone game
- scruple 4mo agoLLMs are Brandolini's Law taken to an entirely different plane of existence.
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- jimbokun 4mo agoCalling it “information“is generous.
- butlike 4mo agoIn the particle physics abstract photon is a discrete piece of "information"-sense.
- anonymars 4mo agoIntellectual denial of service
- Bombthecat 4mo agoYou don't parse the information. You paste it back to AI to get the bullet points the first person put it.
- butlike 4mo agoAnd as biology has taught us: eating shit makes you sick
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- cactacea 4mo agoThat is pretty much my existence at $MAJOR_TECH_COMPANY now. Inexperienced security engineers running bots against my codebase and sending me pages long tickets with their "findings". There might be a couple of interesting nuggets here and there but by and large the reports are just noise. This churn is actively taking away from my ability to actually respond to customer-impacting issues because "security is always our top priority".
- whattheheckheck 4mo agoYou basically have to open up a channel for them to contribute if they want to play that game
- butlike 4mo agoIt also doesn't help that the creation portion is the dopamine-releasing aspect, and the consumption portion is the "work" part of it.