alt Hacker NewsLLMs are incredibly powerful and useful tools, but offloading your writing to them oftentimes means you’re placing an undue burden on whoever you’re sending the generated output to.
To take it to the extreme, a “3x worker” is by definition relative, and someone malicious could achieve that by overloading a colleague with generated text that they themselves hadn’t bothered to read in full. You can stay at your baseline but be “3x” if you’re sufficiently able to sabotage your coworkers.
I’ve been on the receiving end of needing to review “documentation” that was generated almost entirely by LLM. It wasn’t anything that was done with malicious intent, but it’s still exhausting, and you need to exercise an even greater degree of caution because of the potential subtle mistakes or inaccuracies that a real human would never make.
I agree that sending someone a text you haven't read and understood is a sign of poor skills, much like forwarding someone else's message that has nothing to do with the issue being discussed. But we have to acknowledge that the market for speechwriters and corporate copywriters has existed for centuries. Surely you don't think a president is being dishonest when delivering a speech that someone else wrote for them?