you know
multiple people now have said that the thing they like about LLMs is that they don't have to deal with feeling embarrassed or humiliated by bringing questions to others that the others will judge them for.
which like
y'all.
this is a classic "solving a people problem with tech and having horrible side effects as a result" situation
and perhaps y'all ought to be less fucking toxic and judgemental to your coworkers.
fuck.
my last job was hell concerning asking questions. everyone played "no question is stupid" but in practice anyone who asked questions was treated like the village idiot. god forbid you made a mistake. this brought derision and ridicule on your head until the next person made a mistake. I had legit PTSD from 8 years of that.
@munin amen to this sentiment! what really rang true for me when this whole "AI" thing started was when someone said that working with LLMs was the first time for many, many people that they could get a computer to do something useful without massive stress, humiliation and/or shame".
it burns me that we who know computers haven't been falling all over ourselves being as welcoming and helpful as we possibly could, and instead lots of us have used that knowledge as a cudgel.
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