I just started referring to those coworkers as Claude directly. Not like, at the start of the message, but after the first line? Nobody’s noticed yet.

> Selfish LLM usage: A situation in which someone uses an LLM to save their own time at the expense of other people’s time, resulting in a net productivity loss.

Brilliant. I would like to expand this definition slightly in order to include other problematic LLM usage.

> Selfish LLM usage: A situation in which someone uses an LLM to generate text or media which elicits or demands other people's emotional, cognitive or temporal input with the aim of saving similar resources for themselves, resulting in an unfair social exchange.

I've been on a crusade against sloppy use of AI recently. A conversation between my brother and I spawned the idea of "emoji reaction dog whistles" and I couldn't stop thinking about the idea until I wrote it down. Not meant to be taken very seriously, but not entirely UNseriously either

Just reply “I gave this to Claude and it didn’t understand what you meant - can you rephrase?”

I get pretty aggressive about this. I tell them if they expect human effort in review, then they should put some human effort into what they send me. Then I defuse it by ending on a positive tone with some tips about how to prompt better.

It’s worked well so far. Most people only send me that slop once.

This is neat. I'd love to figure out a sequence of emojis that triggers the LLM in ways that puzzles a human.

thank you, I'll put this PR checklist in my claude.md

The irony of someone writing a blog post purely to rage-bait (or rage-engage?) against "slop grenades." Slop grenades can also be made by humans you know, and I'd argue this post is at least a flashbang.

Well...

FTA: "Opinions vary on the usefulness of LLMs, but hopefully we can all agree that using them selfishly is cringe."

LLM = Bad, Human = Good

LLM's output can be useful and informed. If your going to deny that then I dont know what to tell you to convince you otherwise.

How about we get back to holding humans accountable, for the LLM's output and their own. I can point you at people who are using LLM's to make actual art, and it is GOOD (strong stories, social commentary and so on). I can point you to lawyers who are using LLM's to great success. Reading and redlining documents is part of being good at the job and trained into them by trade.

Stop blaming the tool for peoples poor behavior.