Bryan Cantrill: The Revolt of the Reader
In fact, the tells of LLM writing are so grating ("and here’s why that framing matters!") that our brains pull an LLM-triggered ejection handle, bailing us out mid-sentence in an act of self-preservation.
I'm finding that one of the things that bother me the most on a day-to-day basis is the psychosis that instills the values that LLMs should produce everything and LLMs should consume everything.
I've never been comfortable with what would be referred to as Corporate America if I had been located in any of the American countries, but the cultural shift in some places towards outsourcing the production and thinking to a sufficiently talented dice, and then in the very next breath towards outsourcing the consumption, processing and understanding of all related documents to the very same dice, is Kafkaesque.
Dice, please expound. Dice, please summarize. Dice, please produce endless presentations all containing the same self-serving explanations of the new world order, that we may spend hours to months invoking your name to do work and then be yelled at for not achieving the sufficient level of improvement the consultants of questionable purity ensured us competent little bees would extract.
The flight of thought and responsibility from work is either sedation or delusion. It may not have been the first time it has been proposed, but it is a terrifying movement to be carrying the weight of all the worst people you know, too caught up either in religious fervor or stock market manipulation to know, and too uninterested in actual work to care.