[matusp]

> As a maintainer many PRs now look like an insult to one’s time, but when one pushes back, the other person does not see what they did wrong.

I have been volunteering as an advisor to various master's and PhD theses, giving feedback on theses texts and papers. I see people using AI to write their texts more and more, and I feel like my hours are now wasted on improving AI-generated texts instead of helping people hone their writing and thinking skills. Since I cannot constantly analyze and think about who actually wrote the texts, I am thinking about stopping my volunteering.

[softwaredoug]

Thoughtful writing matters so much in an AI world.

The writing and editing is thinking. Trying to figure out whether we communicate our ideas well matters. Giving that over to the AI means giving up on critical thinking.

If we don’t think through the implications of our words, we delegate work without thought of for consequences. That’s especially problematic if AI actually does something for us like code.