Just because you yourself are OK with being talked to rudely, doesn't mean others are. In fact I'd wager most aren't consciously or unconsciously...

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not_kurt_godel 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah that attitude will not get you far in life unless you're Steve Jobs, and it'll sink your ship unless you're obnoxiously rich. And even if you're either/both of those things: A. you can and should act better, and B. people will always attach an asshole-asterisk to your name for the rest of your life and probably even a good while after.

	▲	ryandrake 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Exactly. In my 25+ year career, I've encountered maybe two dozen or so people whose e-mails and chats were terse, yet admittedly succinct, one-liners and most of them were also raging assholes to work with. The ones who also didn't use capital letters or punctuation in their communications were uniformly assholes.

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selcuka 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm pretty sure "rude" in this context means "brief and to the point", not insulting. Otherwise you can be rude with an LLM as well.

Most people I know are happy to receive a focused email rather than an LLM-enhanced, 6 paragraph wall of text.

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munk-a 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I think rude was the wrong word to use. I more meant lacking the pomp and circumstance fluff. I always appreciate considerate and polite speech and think it's requisite to being taken seriously. However, I think directness within the bounds of politeness is optimal.

Also, if it's wall-o-text or "staging must be updated before our os version is deprecated sunday" I prefer the latter.

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bigstrat2003 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

But it's far less rude to just bluntly say something than to send an email generated by an LLM.