Here’s a really interesting side effect of people using AI at work.
We’ve been planning to update some web pages as they aren’t working. There’s a series of them and it would make sense if we were fairly consistent in how we approach them (especially as it would aid the designers).
A new joiner has been making suggestions and generally brings up the same issues. But, he’s put forward about four different solutions to these problems.
I didn’t notice at first, but when he put forward a set of “quick wins” that didn’t match the solutions he previously provided, and ignored what we were doing for the related project that also impacted this, I realised it might be due to simply prompting an LLM and getting what the LLM saw as quick wins (plus the natural variation in LLM response).
It’s possible that he just isn’t the most thoughtful person but I suspect reliance on LLM is more likely (especially as he produces mockups that are definitely generated by an LLM). But perhaps relaying on an LLM and not noticing these issues is the same as not being the most thoughtful person.
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