[kristjansson]

> Professional formatting, length, and clear prose are no longer indicators of care and work quality (they never were, but in the past, if someone drafts up a twelve page spec, at least you know they care enough to spend a lot of time on it).

I feel the loss of this signal acutely. It’s an adjustment to react to 10-30 page “spec” choc-a-block with formatting and ascii figures as if it were a verbal spitball … because these days it likely is.

[hxtk]

When I read some written content, before AI, I learned a few different things in order. First, just by its mere existence, I learned that someone had found an idea worth expending some effort to express. Next, I would learn the words of the content. Next, I would usually acquire some kind of knowledge that I was able to synthesize or extract from the content. That last step isn't a given, but it's very likely to happen given the pre-filter implied by the first bit of information I learned.

There's no pre-filter anymore. It's exceedingly hard for me to quickly determine how important a person thinks an idea is or how much thought they've put into it in the age of AI, and so there's no guarantee that if I invest the time to read the content then there will be a proportional amount of meaning available for me to extract. This risk always existed even with works written by humans, but now it's overwhelming and has decreased my overall of exposure to new ideas that I didn't explicitly go looking for because I have a much higher expectation that information placed in front of me unsolicited will just be a waste of my time.

[bitexploder]

It is worse because the signal is buried in the noise.

[daveguy]

When the noise floor is higher than the signal, it's all noise.

[sevenseacat]

and there's no longer any difference between the 'hey here's an idea I had' document and the 'this has undergone a lot of review and has been signed off by all of the stakeholders' document. Which one do you take as canon that can't be changed, and which not? When it all looks like the same AI slop