[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.