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Assumptions of balanced effort and presumed trust are no longer guaranteed in a post-LLM world. Sloppypasta creates a compounding negative feedback loop where the sender forfeits learning and credibility while the recipient burns effort and loses trust. Receiving raw AI output feels *bad* due to the cognitive dissonance of having these assumptions violated.
Stop Sloppypasta: Don't paste raw LLM output at people
stopsloppypasta.ai
The reason tasks like looking up part numbers and data sheets is hard is that *time* is expensive for us humans. But AI in inference mode has all the time in the world compared to you and me. It can do an hour’s worth of browsing around and collecting links in minutes, and what’s more, tirelessly browse and collect for hours.
Oozy Intelligence in Slow Time
Ribbonfarm Studio
Alice Waters had this incredibly boss move at Chez Panisse where, for awhile, the dessert course was just one peach on a plate. The message of the dessert was, “The world has created something that is already so perfect that a great cook cannot improve on it.” It forces us to think about the role of sourcing in restaurants, which is among the most important parts of cooking.
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