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> Many people enjoy hand-crafted pizza, though, I suggest. Doesn't a machine making your dinner take away the human connection we might otherwise feel with food

> Many people enjoy hand-crafted pizza, though, I suggest. Doesn't a machine making your dinner take away the human connection we might otherwise feel with food? " Not just pizza/food ...but this applies to emails and written documents now.

smugglerFlynn 20d ago
"I have really enjoyed that hand-crafted email" is not something you hear from actual people in real life. I am saying this non-ironically as I understand what you are talking about, but very few people are geeky about how the document or email is written and thought out. Which is the whole reason we see these insane adoption levels of AI slop documents and emails nowadays.
- delis-thumbs-7e 20d ago
  You better appreciate a hand-crafted email from a service tech. Might save you anything from tens of thousands of euros/dollars in real money.
- blitzar 20d ago
  My posts are organic but they are not vegan.
- monkeydust 20d ago
  There are certain types of communication where I do appreciate the time and effort that someone has gone into producing it. These are not typically 'status updates' but when we are exploring the surface of a problem or opportunity and there is certain nuance in the decision making process that might follow.
- asgraham 20d ago
  I have heard multiple people say almost that exact sentence unironically.
  - dgellow 20d ago
    Over the past months I myself have said that sentence unironically!
- rimliu 20d ago
  That sentiment is very old. 270 years “I apologize for such a long letter - I didn't have time to write a short one” old.
- pjc50 20d ago
  I think these days sending an actual handwritten letter with adequate penmanship would have a substantial impact. (of course if this became popular there would be a service in China you could outsource it to. Probably already is for hanzi)
- zeumo 20d ago
  People may not say that, but they are more likely to read the hand-crafted email over the LLM-generated one.
kakacik 20d ago
There are cultures (basically whole South Europe for example) where relation with food and its preparation is something personal, to share with friends and family and preparation is highly social event... something not so common in US I think (definitely not in eastern Europe that I can attest). QoL item for sure, but its impact highly subjective. I can do for example pizza tasting on par with best restaurants out there. I don't do the best dough, but I can do toppings no restaurant can/does offer - ie various old aged cheeses like AOP gruyere, old dutch gouda, aged cheddar, italian ones, mixed with truffles or black garlic and so on. Better olives than restaurants use. Ham I know source of, not cheapest questionable crap from warehouse. Spices & herbs mix that is again not used in restaurants. Just a footnote - its very different product compared to typical US 'pizza', in some cases I would call those cakes (ie Chicago style, pizza-inspired cake), but above is still valid.
- JohnFen 20d ago
  > something not so common in US I think Not as common as many places in the world, but it's also not rare. How true it is in the US depends a lot on where in the US you are.

smugglerFlynn 20d ago

"I have really enjoyed that hand-crafted email" is not something you hear from actual people in real life. I am saying this non-ironically as I understand what you are talking about, but very few people are geeky about how the document or email is written and thought out. Which is the whole reason we see these insane adoption levels of AI slop documents and emails nowadays.

delis-thumbs-7e 20d ago
You better appreciate a hand-crafted email from a service tech. Might save you anything from tens of thousands of euros/dollars in real money.
blitzar 20d ago
My posts are organic but they are not vegan.
monkeydust 20d ago
There are certain types of communication where I do appreciate the time and effort that someone has gone into producing it. These are not typically 'status updates' but when we are exploring the surface of a problem or opportunity and there is certain nuance in the decision making process that might follow.
asgraham 20d ago
I have heard multiple people say almost that exact sentence unironically.
- dgellow 20d ago
  Over the past months I myself have said that sentence unironically!
rimliu 20d ago
That sentiment is very old. 270 years “I apologize for such a long letter - I didn't have time to write a short one” old.
pjc50 20d ago
I think these days sending an actual handwritten letter with adequate penmanship would have a substantial impact. (of course if this became popular there would be a service in China you could outsource it to. Probably already is for hanzi)
zeumo 20d ago
People may not say that, but they are more likely to read the hand-crafted email over the LLM-generated one.

kakacik 20d ago

There are cultures (basically whole South Europe for example) where relation with food and its preparation is something personal, to share with friends and family and preparation is highly social event... something not so common in US I think (definitely not in eastern Europe that I can attest). QoL item for sure, but its impact highly subjective. I can do for example pizza tasting on par with best restaurants out there. I don't do the best dough, but I can do toppings no restaurant can/does offer - ie various old aged cheeses like AOP gruyere, old dutch gouda, aged cheddar, italian ones, mixed with truffles or black garlic and so on. Better olives than restaurants use. Ham I know source of, not cheapest questionable crap from warehouse. Spices & herbs mix that is again not used in restaurants. Just a footnote - its very different product compared to typical US 'pizza', in some cases I would call those cakes (ie Chicago style, pizza-inspired cake), but above is still valid.

JohnFen 20d ago
> something not so common in US I think Not as common as many places in the world, but it's also not rare. How true it is in the US depends a lot on where in the US you are.