When I worked at Apple, I remember seeing code that was 15 years old. Every file had a comment at the top with the date and the author’s name. You’d open a file and read through it, sometimes touching a feature no one had touched in a decade.
Everything felt very permanent, like
Communities require effort from participants to avoid devolving into slop, AI or otherwise. Relying on someone else’s summary is letting someone else do the thinking for you, and commenting without even reading a summary is even more thoughtless. The only real way to participate is to click the links you avoided, and that’s the way it should be; it’s the bare minimum level of effort required - the price of admission, if you will. If we want our presence to be a benefit to the community we’re all a part of, we need to educate ourselves on the topic we’re discussing, at least slightly.
Communities require effort from participants to avoid devolving into slop, AI or otherwise. Relying on someone else’s summary is letting someone else do the thinking for you, and commenting without even reading a summary is even more thoughtless. The only real way to participate is to click the links you avoided, and that’s the way it should be; it’s the bare minimum level of effort required - the price of admission, if you will. If we want our presence to be a benefit to the community we’re all a part of, we need to educate ourselves on the topic we’re discussing, at least slightly.