[supriyo-biswas]

> But that fluff is there for many reasons. It adds context, it allows us to commingle our meaningful and valid emotions alongside our facts, and ultimately, it lets us tell a human story.

That was the case prior to the availability of LLMs. However, the practice of sending over LLM-expanded content from the sender to the recipient and the use of LLM-aided summarization on the recipient's side is only about to become prevalent. Once it reaches some sort of saturation point, people would either forego LLMs entirely, or move to other forms of communication that you speak of where this sort of social convention won't be needed entirely.

In my case, I predict that this is going to make people interact a lot more in meatspace and supersede Internet communication in the same way email has been relegated for many people over channels such as Discord, WhatsApp, etc.

[MITSardine]

It's a little bit sad that people are wasting all these kWh of compute power to save a few seconds hassle (apparently) of communication. I don't know how to translate this in English, but LLM-driven emailing is a real "gas factory", an absurd level of complexity and effort (albeit hidden) for a trivial task.

Why not just adopt a more direct style of communication? Why fret so much over emails? You wouldn't leave an actually important e-mail to an LLM, I would hope not. And, if it's more casual (even in a work setting), just write as you usually do, the other person most likely knows you and doesn't give a shit.

[wahnfrieden]

How much email activity is directly valuable to these individual workers vs boss and owner-mandated low-value nonsense?

It feels like blaming emissions on commuters as individuals instead of the ones making RTO mandates

[supriyo-biswas]

At my previous employer, there was a kind of a top-down mandate to "use AI in your daily work to become efficient", which senior management would interpret in all sorts of braindead ways.

This, of course, lead to hilariously nonsensical emails, such as a IT security team member sending out a LLM-generated email about how users should be reading CVE reports for the software they use, instead of doing the right thing and lock out people running old software.

[nemomarx]

isn't it kinda already the case that you send emails and people want you to jump on a video call to explain it?

or have I just had bad luck

[taneq]

I don’t think it’s just you. “This site visit could have been an online meeting which could have been a phone call which could have been an email which could have been a text.”

[supriyo-biswas]

None of the places I've worked at required sending an email -- although I've been on the receiving end of people asking to set up calls for trivial issues.