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Posted by pjerem 4 hours ago

Don't Paste the AI, please(dontpastetheai.com)
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luciana1u 1 hour ago|
my favorite tell is when a pasted answer opens with 'Great question!' — you can hear the model clearing its throat before the human even types.
pammf 4 hours ago||
Agree that it isn’t nice to just copy & paste, but the assumption that your AI generated answers will the same of someone’s else is wrong. Everyone using AI for a while built a different set of preferences, memories and context in general which influence the answers.
Barbing 4 hours ago||
Or no memories or history.

Would be interesting if someone said “I spent $2.50 using llm-council with the three top SOTA models and think this reply makes sense: {paste}”

(But better “not sure, though after spending a few bucks on model APIs, perhaps {human-written analysis} is in the right direction”)

Also like you, I did think on the angry version “they have the same AI you do” isn’t likely to be right in the consumer space since their AI is ChatGPT (free version?!) and yours is Claude or something.

pammf 3 hours ago|||
Even with the same model results are different. I work in a startup where they went bonks with AI ~1 year ago. Every employee got a Claude account that I don’t even know what tier is (we just have what feels like unlimited tokens), they implemented infamous AI usage leaderboards, people were getting “you’re not using AI enough” feedback and all of that…

Over time, it was impressive to see how much the output of the same prompt would differ between us, and it seems to be heavily influenced by the role of the user. I.e. answers coming from the agent of a Data Engineer, a Backend Engineer and a Domain Researcher would not be the same at all. Some of us use harnessing tools, some not, but regardless it we saw differences.

So, for example, when a backend engineer would send a question to a data engineer, there was *some* added value even when it was a lazy copy & paste.

user_7832 3 hours ago|||
You're giving too much credit to people. The folks who run an LLM council aren't the ones blindly copy pasting things.

There's responsible AI use (which I think you - and I, and many people here) do, and the "I don't care, I've outsourced my brain to OpenAI" type of people.

parasti 3 hours ago||
Similar thoughts here. My gut tells me "if I wanted AI responses I would just ask AI", but in truth LLMs are not like Google Search. LLMs are more like a slot machine where you put your prompt in and out comes a combination of insights that are personalized to the inputs.
michaeltenpow 1 hour ago||
Yes - lazy AI answers from generic AI are lazy. Don’t do that please.

But this leading statement is not necessarily true:

“The person on the other side has the same tools you do”

Aren’t we all imbuing our AI with our own thought patterns? Folks I speak to spent a tremendous amount of time building tooling and (hierarchical) context around LLMs such that the output it produces is definitely not the same as what the stock model produces.

frankbyte 59 minutes ago||
the angry version is... not very angry.
testycool 55 minutes ago|
And doesn't seem very constructive either.
robinei 3 hours ago||
The article says they could have asked an AI themselves, but that is missing that I may have an agentic context with exactly the right information to answer the question well, which they do not have. For example because I worked on something closely related. Such an agent output is very useful, and taking the time to rewrite that to a short personal answer is not always worth it.
Hugsbox 2 hours ago|
Your agentic context is still going to shit out 3 pages where a sentence would suffice. Use AI all you want, and then WRITE THE ANSWER IN YOUR OWN WORDS.
alchemism 1 hour ago||
If I’m answering your question, and you are not directly paying me for being an information desk, you are definitely getting the AI reply.
Hugsbox 1 hour ago||
In that case why not just say you'd prefer not to answer and move on? They're asking for your input, not AI input - if you'd prefer not to contribute literally just say so.
winterbourne 3 hours ago||
This is like an earlier internet era when it was common for people to just copy-paste directly from other websites into a forum response.
block_dagger 3 hours ago||
The premise of the article is that everyone has access to the “same tools” but that’s glossing over the specialization inherent in a specific expert’s harness config (memories, skills, rules, repos, etc) that produce actually helpful responses (eg engineer’s view vs product manager’s view).
grzracz 3 hours ago||
Very ironic this page is full of AI text
slinkydeveloper 51 minutes ago||
Wish there was another version more "angry" than the angry version
getfacl 3 hours ago|
Unless I'm your research assistant, why would I be asking AI questions for you when you could do it yourself? If you need an answer I already have I will gladly share it with you. If you need my help to find an answer, then tell me that and I gladly will help.
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