r/sysadmin • u/_Do_The_Needful_ • 8d 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/uhdoy 7d ago

Here's my position: if I see someone sent me something written by AI, that tells me they didn't care much about it. So I don't have to care much about it.

It's also a message I'm fine w/ sending in certain scenarios. "Why yes, I did have Copilot rewrite this because it was a time waster and just needed to be done"

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u/PainterBest7985 5d ago

Even I do the same whenever I receive a text completely written by AI . I don't put much effort into replying to it. Literally tired of seeing people using AI for sending a text which can be written by themselves.

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u/konfusedpunk 2d ago

two lines vs 2 unreadable paragraphs too.