[sarchertech]

It took more work to write the prompt that it would to write the script email.

“Please write a brief email from an employee to a boss giving an update on the api. The email should include 1. The /customers and /address endpoints are complete, but we're still waiting on the architecture team to finish the /orders spec. I'll also be taking Friday off.”

And then you had to adjust it. Just include the information you out into the prompt. If chatgpt can understand it, so can I.

I can’t wait to live in a world where someone enters bullet points into chatgpt to generate an email. Then I have to run the email through chatgpt to transform it back into bullet points.

[kelseyfrog]

The point isn't to save time or energy - the point psychological displacement.

Whether we want to admit it or not, not everyone has done the work to handle critique. Some people rely on ChatGPT as a digital scapegoat[1]. Rather than subject their own abilities and decisions to critique, they can launder them through ChatGPT and the psychological distance it affords, allows them to avoid feelings of anxiety - they can blame any negative response on ChatGPT.

Never under estimate the amount of time an energy people will spend on coping mechanisms.

1. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hide-and-seek/201312...

[sarchertech]

I guess maybe someone might use chatgpt for this. But your argument and the 10 year old article defining the term scapegoat is far from convincing me that this is common.