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Re:GPT-4 increased BCG consultants’ performance by over 40% by t8sr on Saturday September 30, 2023 @08:25AM (#37714784)
Man, write drunk, but edit sober.
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Re:GPT-4 increased BCG consultants’ performance by over 40% by wqtz on Saturday September 30, 2023 @08:29AM (#37714811)
My apologies. I agree. How long does it take for Ketamine to wear off? I only had a little bit after breakfast. I hope the edit button stays.
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Re:GPT-4 increased BCG consultants’ performance by over 40% by isoprophlex on Saturday September 30, 2023 @09:07AM (#37715056)
Your horse tranquilizer-addled coworker seems to be expressing a few points about the workplace dynamics between engineers and managers. First, he believes that while there may be exceptional engineers who are also good with people, these engineers are generally not interested in managerial responsibilities. Second, he observes a communication gap between engineers and managers, where both parties avoid taking on additional tasks outside their job descriptions. Lastly, he argues that management consultants bridge this gap by identifying issues neither party wants to handle but should. He concludes by saying that he'd make a good management consultant because he can spot numerous ways a company could improve.

If all else fails, the LLM revolution will at least allow us to make sense of ketamine-induced rants on management.

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Re:GPT-4 increased BCG consultants’ performance by over 40% by FrustratedMonky on Saturday September 30, 2023 @09:23AM (#37715217)
Maybe it was done on Ketamine, but the points are valid. Have seen it, consultants don't really bring 'new' or 'creative' solutions, they just help move the ideas around the calcified layers in the organization.
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Re:GPT-4 increased BCG consultants’ performance by over 40% by momirlan on Saturday September 30, 2023 @09:29AM (#37715266)
just said in 100x words...
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Re:GPT-4 increased BCG consultants’ performance by over 40% by l33t7332273 on Saturday September 30, 2023 @11:54AM (#37716658)
Is the post that bad?

What does it say about me if I didn’t think that it was that bad?

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Re:GPT-4 increased BCG consultants’ performance by over 40% by wqtz on Saturday September 30, 2023 @04:14PM (#37719293)
It is an honest and unfiltered take.

My theory is that honest takes should be written on first take without revisions and without edits. The moment I massage a statement to be more coherent I am compromising on my honesty.

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Re:GPT-4 increased BCG consultants’ performance by over 40% by jonbell on Saturday September 30, 2023 @07:15PM (#37720894)
It’s a bit long for the TLDR crowd, and it was passionate.

But no, it was a good post and the cultural expectation to keep things shorter and more buttoned up has some real downsides.

I would have written this with more punch, but, well, see above.

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Re:GPT-4 increased BCG consultants’ performance by over 40% by kmstout on Saturday September 30, 2023 @12:08PM (#37716794)
Off topic, but I had to follow up. It seems that "Write drunk, edit sober" is mis-attributed to Hemingway, who advised writing sober [1].

[1] https://www.writersdigest.com/be-inspired/did-hemingway-say-...

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