Lol. I started looking around at my Teams configuration for work to see if it could find, using Copilot, a fix to a technical problem that I’m sure had found, but couldn’t remember the details about. Of course, as soon as that is streamlined by employers, we are doomed. Managers will have charts that rank employees by snarky outbursts per week.
It will by like the Chinese social credit system. From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of cody dooderson Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2025 10:26 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] workslop Something creepy happened today while making some code-slop for work. I just finished writing a function to do some silly UI thing. I started to put a comment above the function starting with "// I argued". Co-pilot autocompleted it to "// I argued against this but Cody insisted". This brings up a couple of things. First, how did Co-pilot know my name? I searched the codebase and it doesn't appear anywhere except in git commit messages. Second, why are Co-pilot and I arguing? Sure I ignore more than half of the suggestions it makes, because they were terrible, but I didn't think that it would matter. Third, This may have been a lucky stochastic response on it's part but it really made me feel like it had become aware. _ Cody Smith _ [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> On Tue, Sep 23, 2025 at 4:31 PM Marcus Daniels <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: If he is really creating this resentment, he won't be paid for long. Someone will have to pay for that GPU time. -----Original Message----- From: Friam <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > On Behalf Of glen Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2025 3:09 PM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] workslop Well, sure. But the same can be said about guns. Give the mass shooter a 6-shooter revolver and he'll kill a few kids. But give 'em an AR-15 and he'll kill a LOT of kids. Give a moron a copy of WordStar and a line printer and he can try to flood the zone. But he'll fail. Give him access to billion dollar data centers running billion parameter AIs and he won't fail. On 9/23/25 2:01 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > Let's face it: A lot of work is dumb and misguided and might as well be slop. > Not all the same workers at these organizations know when work matters and > when it doesn't, or how to tell the difference. > The misery is organizational and has nothing to do with AI. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Friam <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > On Behalf Of glen > Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2025 1:23 PM > To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: [FRIAM] workslop > > AI ‘Workslop’ Is Killing Productivity and Making Workers Miserable > https://www.404media.co/ai-workslop-is-killing-productivity-and-making-workers-miserable/ > > "Each study I referenced above has several anecdotes about individual workers > who have found specific uses of AI that improve their own productivity and > several companies have found uses of AI that have helped automate specific > tasks, but most of the studies find that the industry- and economy-wide > productivity gains that have been promised by AI companies are not happening." -- ¡sıɹƎ ןıɐH ⊥ ɐןןǝdoɹ ǝ uǝןƃ ὅτε oi μὲν ἄλλοι κύνες τοὺς ἐχϑροὺς δάκνουσιν, ἐγὰ δὲ τοὺς φίλους, ἵνα σώσω. .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-.. FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom https://bit.ly/virtualfriam to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-.. FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom https://bit.ly/virtualfriam to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/
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