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Re:Nobody Pushed Back: Why Engineers Stay Silent Until It's ... by automatic6131 on Monday May 18, 2026 @05:41AM (#48177306)
This article is written atrociously. It's geniunely unpleasant to read the basement tier slop like this. It doesn't matter if it has a salient point because this article could have been a comment.
Re:Nobody Pushed Back: Why Engineers Stay Silent Until It's ... by renyicircle on Monday May 18, 2026 @06:13AM (#48177494)
Agreed, I can't read articles anymore with that Claudish stench of confidence, impactful sentences and dramatic negative parallelism. At some point you just start to skim it and reverse engineer the simple original prompt which is "write an article about how people don't speak up because it can hurt their career, use real world examples".
Re:Nobody Pushed Back: Why Engineers Stay Silent Until It's ... by automatic6131 on Monday May 18, 2026 @06:20AM (#48177539)
I just realized what the "AI summarize" feature is for. This kinda turd. I'd never wanted to use it, because either I wanted the joy of reading whatever it was - or needed the details in full because it's documentation. Now, finally, a use. Manmade horrors of daily life.
Re:Nobody Pushed Back: Why Engineers Stay Silent Until It's ... by joshua_amaju on Monday May 18, 2026 @08:17AM (#48178657)
We're really in a bad place when you need AI to give you the human version of AI generated content written by a human.
Re:Nobody Pushed Back: Why Engineers Stay Silent Until It's ... by zeafoamrun on Monday May 18, 2026 @08:28AM (#48178785)
It's really sad. It's made me determined not to put any AI written posts on my website. I sling enough AI generated code at work already.
Re:Nobody Pushed Back: Why Engineers Stay Silent Until It's ... by renyicircle on Monday May 18, 2026 @06:24AM (#48177561)
Remember sharing simple thoughts between each other? Now you can do the same thing but with two AIs in between, one that produces words out of an idea and one that collapses them back. This is the way of the future.
Re:Nobody Pushed Back: Why Engineers Stay Silent Until It's ... by binary132 on Monday May 18, 2026 @07:27AM (#48178140)
Actually you don’t need an AI slop generator for processing AI slop when the headline is right there and you have more than two brain cells (presuming of course you are not a bot.)
Re:Nobody Pushed Back: Why Engineers Stay Silent Until It's ... by eurekahalting on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @09:49PM (#48216837)
+1. Some of the tells:

> The information existed. It just never traveled. Nokia sold its phone division in 2013 for $7.2 billion.

(Incoherence)

> It's not saying "this is wrong" — that doesn't work. Real pushback is making problems visible: putting a price on the decision, naming what can go wrong, making the tradeoffs concrete.

(Excessive vagueness, and no awareness of irony)

> It's not that nobody knew. Everyone knew. Speaking up just wasn't a rational choice.

(Apparently drug-inspired denouement, whiteboard assumed)

There's more that's off, and I "enjoyed" reading that about as much as being molested by the large language monkeys that apparently created this text. (Because it is text - mere sequential characters with no value - rather than an expression of useful thought.)

You could also think of this as "AI is the toddler that's eaten crayons and shit on the wall." Sometimes the results are funny and worth sharing, but an adult creative director is required.

Here it seems the toddlers have acquired brethren and no adults are to be found.