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idle_zealot 4 hours ago

This is a nightmare scenario to me.

"Claude, prepare me a presentation on XYZ."

I get to work, go straight to the meeting room, and pull up what it made to present.

It's barely coherent nonsense. Lots of irrelevant details, buzz words, wrong charts or confusing phrasing. Obviously LLM output.

I read it out.

When I'm done, I get a question about one of Claude's incorrectly inferred details.

The shame instantly kills me.

This is a scenario I've seen play out with coworkers. Except that last part, instead of dying or owning up to the mistake of trusting LLM output they waffle. Their shame circuit is broken.

Cyan488 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Someone I know does this, and seems to think it's a flex, because he bragged about it being "the first time I've actually seen this presentation" a few times during the presentation.

It was all awful.

conception 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I feel like we need to normalize walking out of meetings like that. If you have no idea what you’re presenting why is anyone in the room?

sleazebreeze 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

At my previous company, a distinguished engineer did this. Used generated slides he hadn't looked at until presenting to the entire staff+ engineer group. The slides weren't good and he mostly ignored them.

pferde 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I would immediately stand up and walk out of there. That's my time you're wasting!

yesitcan 2 hours ago | parent [-]

It’s not your time anymore. It’s the corporations time ;)

Forgeties79 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

“I came in unprepared. Please hold your applause.”

jobigoud 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

A Canadian politician did this during a speech in front of the house/parliament or whatever. In the middle of the speech the LLM wrote "Here's a more natural, flowing version of that section that reads like a legislative speech" and he read it verbatim and then continued on, not even realizing what he just read.

TutleCpt 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Why on earth would you present a presentation that you haven't reviewed ahead of time?

ceejayoz 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I wish I knew, but I've definitely seen it happen.

"What does this bit mean?" "I dunno."

mjrpes 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Why even have a meeting? That's just a waste of time when agents are much better at reviewing plans anyway. You don't even need presentations anymore. Executive officers can just create a review agent with a "special sauce" prompt (essential to justify their high salary) and auto sign off on a plan if it passes the crucial test: "is this plan good?" Finally we can have true business automation and people can go back to much more important things, like looking at KPI reports and being impressed or unimpressed.

Calazon 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That sounds incredibly frustrating. It's bad enough in code reviews, but is that approach to work being tolerated in meetings these days?

Forgeties79 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Because you think ChatGPT will do the job for you, and sadly, the quality drop doesn’t universally hurt people

InsideOutSanta an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

PowerPoint Karaoke used to be a fun distraction; now it's literally people's job.

mikeocool 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Previously having a deck was basically a signal that said “I took some time to prepare for this meeting and put together some coherent talking points” even if the deck itself was just a bunch of of text outlining what the speaker was saying.

Now that people are generating decks with AI, they’re basically worthless. I don’t need a bunch of bullet points you didn’t take anytime to think about on the screen while you talk about something you didn’t prepare for.

jampekka 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> It's barely coherent nonsense. Lots of irrelevant details, buzz words, wrong charts or confusing phrasing. Obviously LLM output.

Plenty of that even before LLMs too though.