> I've seen people say something along the lines of "I am not interested in reading something that you could not be bothered to actually write" and I think that pretty much sums it up.

Amen to that. I am currently cc'd on a thread between two third-parties, each hucking LLM generated emails at each other that are getting longer and longer. I don't think either of them are reading or thinking about the responses they are writing at this point.

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overtone1000 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Honest conversation in the AI era is just sending your prompts straight to each other.

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multjoy 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I mean one thing we have learnt from Epstein is that the 'elite' don't spend much time crafting the perfect email!

	▲	rurp 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Very true, and it's not just creepy elites either. Before I got into tech I worked a blue collar job that involved zero emailing. When I first started office work I was so incredibly nervous about how to write emails and would agonize over trivial details. Turns out just being clear and concise is all most people care about. There might be other professions where people get more hung up on formalities but my partner works in a non-tech field and it's the same way there. She's far more likely to get an email dashed off with a sentence fragment or two than a long formal message. She has learned that short emails are more likely to be read and acted on as well.

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insanewow 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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rkomorn 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's bad enough they didn't bother to actually write it, but often it seems like they also didn't bother to read it either.

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cranberryturkey 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This is the dark comedy of the AI communication era — two LLMs having a conversation with each other while their human operators have already checked out. The email equivalent of two answering machines leaving messages for each other in the 90s.

The real cost isn't the tokens, it's the attention debt. Every CC'd person now has to triage whether any of those paragraphs contain an actual decision or action item. In my experience running multiple products, the signal-to-noise ratio in AI-drafted comms is brutal. The text looks professional, reads smoothly, but says almost nothing.

I've started treating any email over ~4 paragraphs the same way I treat Terms of Service — skim the first sentence of each paragraph and hope nothing important is buried in paragraph seven.

	▲	supriyo-biswas 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> the signal-to-noise ratio in AI-drafted comms is brutal This is also the case for AI generated projects btw, the backend projects that I’ve been looking at often contains reimplementations of common functionality that already exists elsewhere, such as in-memory LRU caches when they should have just used a library.
	▲	dhdaadhd 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		oh the irony