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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

As a result, the impact of creating and sharing an AI generated document, just like creating and sharing an AI cool video, is zero. That's fine for memes but it's not fine for the workplace, where the document is not just your output but also an input into a downstream process.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

If the reaction to your output is "neat, but check this out" then you FAILED. The job is not just to produce outputs! The job is to enable the right action to happen downstream. A change in real world decisions and behaviors. This workslop is overwhelming real work. Flooding the zone with shit.

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"Just doing things" is not a path to value (Don't Just Do Things, Part 1)

Action for the sake of action feels good, but the path of least resistance leads you to surrender your own agency.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

No tool is frictionless. You can prove that easily enough by slicing vegetables with a hammer. Tools create a river of frictionlessness, buttressed with steep banks of friction. The specific ways in which LLMs are frictionless encourage slop. The frictions of LLMs discourage editing & fact checks.

Pavel@spavel.bsky.social

It's interesting to contrast with the original vision for the computer. The LLM doesn't aim to be a "bicycle for the mind" (Jobs) nor extend senses and reach (MCLuhan) but displace cognition. Instead of a machine that does what you tell it, it's a machine that tells.

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