Send me slop, and I will prompt you: How not to be a meat proxy

Focus on verifying, testing, and quality-assuring the team's output. Nothing else.

That’s true today, was true a year ago, and has always been true.

Judge the quality of the results, not the tools used to produce them. Whether those tools involve AI or not is irrelevant.

You yell “cloud!” in my direction.

I listen.

then I regret listening. Same for "smart" or "we have an app" or "you have a choice about cookies" or...

We are drowning in this. I remember in the beginning, people pushed back. Now we don't even push back. We do anything (programmed?) to get past it.

A friend of mine told me she was watching TV (whatever that means)

Instead of an advertisement dialog with SKIP and a timer, she was offered "which ad do you like better A or B"

she didn't want to make a choice/give any information, and just sat through it all until it dismissed itself.

"I listen" has been weaponized and now you have to listen.

Very true and timely.

This is a meat proxy throwing a Slop Grenade [1]