2026-09-14 11:07 UTC
I've heard this from writers, architects...all kinds of pros. "Did you use AI to help you outline this?" What a *stupid* thing to ask a writer! That's like asking "Do you use keyboard shortcuts, or do you mouse over the Word ribbon and click on the little scissors icon when you want to cut some text?" The *actual, finished document* is right in front of you. Is it a good document? Are those good words? Why are you concerning yourself with the writer's pencil-sharpening technique?
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr 2026-09-14 11:07
There's precedent for this: indeed, it's the very origin of management consulting. The first management consultants were the Taylorists; these were con artists that charged bosses vast sums of money to stand over workers with stopwatches, timing each step of their jobs to the instant in order to produce a mandatory choreography of "the best way" to do the job: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_management 7/