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by sensanaty·2y ago·view on hn ↗
But this is where the incentives lie. Why waste a half hour putting in actual effort, when in the end of the day the C-suite only awards the boot-and-ass lickers that comply with Management when they say "We should implement AI workflows into our workday for productivity purposes!".

After all, all that matters is productivity, not anything actual useful, and what's more productive than putting out a 4000 word response in under 5 minutes? That used to take actual time and effort!

Now it's up to me to escalate this whole thing, bring it up with my manager during the performance interview cycles, all while this sort of crap is proliferating and spreading around more and more like a cancer.

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None of what you said discounts the fact that this is not an issue with the tool. Management not setting the right incentives has always been a problem. LOC metrics were the bane of every programmer's existence, now it has been replaced with JIRA tickets. Setting the right incentives has always been hard and has almost always gone wrong.
Why wait? This person is actively wasting your time! If you'd wanted input from ChatGPT, you could've asked yourself. It's no courtesy coming from them!

In my view, what's on the order is deleting their comment and reminding them that they are entirely out of line when they pollute like that. Whether that is a wise thing to do in your situation I don't know.

The market economic incentives of capitalism will weed out your colleague in short order. Or if not, your company.
A ruse can last a lot longer than rational people would expect.