Re:Procrastination is connected to perfectionism
by wholinator2 on Monday January 01, 2024 @05:00PM
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Hmm, that is an interesting idea. I bet someone could write an app that rephrased incoming messages through an LLM to match some metric you chose. You'd definitely need the ability to read the original message and there's about a million and a half ways out could go wrong but it's interesting nonetheless. Just evaporate toxicity from all communications before they even reach your brain.
Re:Procrastination is connected to perfectionism
by zestyping on Monday January 01, 2024 @05:14PM
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It seems like a good idea at first... but it also would mean everyone could communicate as toxically as they wanted with no consequences. Uh oh.
Re:Procrastination is connected to perfectionism
by 29athrowaway on Monday January 01, 2024 @07:10PM
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If you cross certain lines, toxic messages should be blocked and sent to HR for review.
Criticism is fine, when it is constructive and done with tact.
2. Stick to the facts: what happened, and what should have happened instead? Remove all the noise such as blame, emotional reactions, etc. Less drama, more clarity.
3. If the root cause is something dumb such as the hotel WiFi, close the ticket as "can't reproduce" and add an explanation.
You can avoid reading the text, then use a LLM prompt such as: "Can you rephrase this removing all emotional reactions and extracting only the parts that relate to reproduction steps".
Do not waste energy on toxic people. You are not a therapist, an emotional support animal, a sandbag or a doormat. You are a software engineer.
Unless you are getting rich you should avoid working there.