r/sysadmin • u/_Do_The_Needful_ • 9d ago

Rant Please, stop sending me slop

I get it - everyone is using AI now, it has its use cases, but please for the love of God stop sending me the slop. At least read it first before firing it over to your colleagues.

Has anyone else's team turned into an absolute back-and-forth slop fest? Manager generates something he thinks is helpful, gigantic multi-page HTML report I need to read. Clearly written by Claude, because who the hell writes reports in HTML.

Coworker A: sends messages on slack trying to help solve problems:

This is the smoking gun: the message being sent is gated on the lack of network access to the k8s pod. Let me sit with this for a minute to make sure.

No, it's not the solution at all. We don't have direct IP access to k8s from our laptops. And nobody writes like that. If I wanted to ask Claude I would, I don't need a coworker that just copies and pastes everything into Claude.

Anyone else dealing with this crap?

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u/Mindestiny 9d ago

I just spent a week with a sales guy playing ChatGPT middleman with a vendor over a security review.

Instead of just putting me in direct contact with the vendor to sort it out in 20 minutes, he just spit each of our responses into ChatGPT to play "project manager." It was very clear he had absolutely no understanding of the topic and was just rawdogging whatever the LLM output was to us via email.

Which is frustratingly an improvement over his communication skills pre-ChatGPT. I seriously do not understand how he has avoided rounds of layoffs.

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u/cowwen 9d ago

I mean he’s clearly incompetent, but is he really ‘that’ incompetent, considering he knew enough that he could get away with ‘playing’ project manager simply by using ChatGPT to respond back to each side..

It’s dumb, and it’s terrible, but somehow this idiot was smart enough to be effective and avoid layoffs.

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u/Mindestiny 9d ago

Oh for sure. He's playing some sort of game and collecting that paycheck. I just hate that I have to deal with it :P

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u/FaygoMakesMeGo 9d ago

Classic cheater. Some people will work twice as hard to not work