Post by @rhamph@awful.systems

2026-09-24 01:35 UTC

Sloperators declare: slopping kinda sucks It was fine when I was free to foist slop upon my coworkers, but now everyone is returning the favour?? What the hell. This sucks. Naturally commenters are careful to note that they of course use the chatbot with care and precision, it’s those insidious others taking the easy approach and not having the moral fortitude to apply a little thought

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@EFreethought@awful.systems 2026-09-24 04:07

I hate it when people say, “It’s a management/culture problem; you are just not using the AI properly.” If you did not have a particular management problem until the AI came along, then I can say it’s an AI problem.

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@Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-09-24 04:20

Ha-ha.

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@jaschop@awful.systems 2026-09-24 10:13

I bumped heads here before on that take, but I can empathize deeply with these people. I expect that interacting with most of them will be infuriating, since they probably accepted the “this is just how things are done from now on” narrative of AI and are some level of infatuated with the fancy demos. But this acceptance is also where the inescapable soul-crushing comes from. If you can adopt an internal posture of resistance, the pervalence of AI is still grating but you can adopt a perspective that doesn’t devalue your own skill and makes personal impact conceivable. Many of these folks are pretty far gone, but a pipeline of recovery should be possible from a starting point like this.

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