The reason why I think bad AI writing bugs people so much - it is genuinely disrespectful to ask someone to put effort into reading something you couldn’t be bothered to put an ounce of effort into writing.
AI makes writing cheaper but in some ways it makes reading even more expensive. AI writing is overly verbose.
If you generate five paragraphs in seconds and just give it a quick skim, you have saved yourself time by creating work for the readers. You still need to read it and distill it. That’s the job now. If you don't want to be a writer you still need to be an editor.
One example is AI-generated PR descriptions created solely from the code diff.
They might sound professional and explain the code well, but they often miss the overarching business context.
An even more egregious example is PR reviews where someone asks an LLM to review your code, pastes the response, and clearly doesn’t read it.
Like I can do that lol! I also have access to the same models... What value are you adding??
The craziest part is when the AI output says something like:
The PR is well structured and handles X, Y, and Z effectively.
A few improvements could be made to Y by doing A or B.
The author is also asking for guidance on how to handle X. You'll still need to provide your own perspective on that.Had they simply read the response before sending it, they would have realized the LLM was telling them they needed to do the tiniest bit of thinking themselves.