How I plan to use LLMs

What I have watched happen in my profession in the past two years, I am still struggling to describe. The first time I knew something was wrong, roughly a year and a quarter ago, I noticed a colleague replying to me using AI. His response was obviously generated by Claude. That’s the opening of Appearing Productive in The Workplace. The entire essay is good, you should read it. I’ve been noticing something similar, both at work and, worryingly, in personal spaces. Tale of fixed disk size A coworker recently told our entire team that some of our hosts had a fixed, tiny disk size. We could get more CPU and RAM provisioned, but disk size was consistent. The problem was, these hosts were consistently running out of disk space and our only way out of it was to do a lengthy migration. That sounded wrong to me, but my coworker had confidently told the entire team, so who was I to question them? Coincidently, I had to touch that part of the infrastructure a few days later. So, I decided to…