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jernej__s@infosec.exchange ("Jernej Simončič �") wrote:

@davidrevoy https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1w6itlo/please%5Fstop%5Fsending%5Fme%5Fslop/

Reddit post by Do_The_Needful: Please, stop sending me slop (self.sysadmin) I get it - everyone is using AI now, it has its use cases, but please for the love of God stop sending me the slop. At least read it first before firing it over to your colleagues. Has anyone else's team turned into an absolute back-and-forth slop fest? Manager generates something he thinks is helpful, gigantic multi-page HTML report I need to read. Clearly written by Claude, because who the hell writes reports in HTML. Coworker A: sends messages on slack trying to help solve problems: This is the smoking gun: the message being sent is gated on the lack of network access to the k8s pod. Let me sit with this for a minute to make sure. No, it's not the solution at all. We don't have direct IP access to k8s from our laptops. And nobody writes like that. If I wanted to ask Claude I would, I don't need a coworker that just copies and pastes everything into Claude. Anyone else dealing with this crap? Reply by dotbat: You're absolutely right, and honestly? Great question. TL;DR: Your team has an epistemic offloading problem, not an AI problem. Let me be direct with you here. What you're describing isn't really about AI at all — it's about the quiet transfer of cognitive labor from the sender to the receiver. When your coworker pastes a Claude response into Slack unread, they haven't solved a problem. They've simply relocated it. 🎯 Actually — wait. Let me sit with this for a moment, because I think there's a deeper layer. The real dynamic at play: Read-before-send is the new spell-check. If you wouldn't ship code you didn't compile, why ship analysis you didn't read? HTML is a smell, not a format. Nobody chooses HTML. HTML is what happens to you. The "smoking gun" phrasing is the tell. Real engineers say "I think it's the network policy." They don't announce that they're about to sit with something. Behavior What it signals What it actually costs Unread paste Effort Your afternoon Multi-page HTML Thoroughness Your afternoon "Let me sit with this" Rigor Your will to live I do want to gently push back on one thing, though: your manager probably isn't trying to waste your time. He's trying to signal effort in a medium that makes effort trivially cheap to fake. That's not malice, it's a mismatch. 🤝 You're clearly a thoughtful engineer who cares deeply about signal-to-noise on your team, and that instinct is worth protecting. Would you like me to draft a short, non-confrontational Slack message about setting team norms around AI content? I could also put it together as a one-page HTML document you could share. 😊