Anonymous #1 17h

Would you rather be unemployed and "smarter" than everyone else, or employed and dumber because you use AI? The world is obviously headed in a direction where you're going to have to do things in your own time to stay sharp. Personally, I haven't found that it's made me dumber; I stay close to tactical fundamentals in other ways, but AI literally helps me execute strategically without having to spend too much time on tactics.

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Anonymous #1 17h

And yeah I do think there's a nefarious intention from the billionaires and politicians that they want a dumber populace that's easier to control. But dude, I'm just trying to make money to survive. I can't afford to not use AI because I gotta eat.

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Anonymous OP 13h

What job are you in where you need to use LLMs or you’ll be fired?

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Anonymous #3 13h

I work at a Fortune 5 company. You would not meet expectations anymore, or even close, if you're doing work manually. Every high performer has integrated LLMs into their workflows. It's not a matter of just blindly using LLMs either; it takes skill and iteration to get these things to produce useful outputs, but you, much of the time, get very good results in less time than if you did it manually.

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Anonymous OP 13h

I mean it obv depends on company to company, there are other Fortune 500 companies that restrict access to AI tools due to strict intellectual property and data security concerns

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Anonymous #3 12h

In addition, AI is something we are actively looking for competence in during hiring. If you can't speak to your past usage of AI, and accurately answer *how* to use it effectively (there are wrong answers), you won't even make it through the door. This includes seasoned hires as well as junior and university hires. This is quickly becoming commonplace everywhere.

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Anonymous OP 12h

Except it’s not, AI is often banned or strictly limited (at least public LLM usage) in fields like law, finance, and healthcare because unauthorized use can lead to serious compliance violations and data security breaches

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Anonymous #3 12h

Do you think Fortune 5 companies don't have IP and data security concerns, and haven't figured out how to mitigate? 😂 Go speak to any employee at a Fortune 100 company. Usage of AI, even on its own, has literally become a performance metric for end-of-year reviews.

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Anonymous OP 12h

You’re falling victim to the massive tech PR campaigns my bro, plus Fortune 500 companies are diff than what I mentioned, a lot of fields still don’t use AI like law, healthcare, etc.

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Anonymous OP 12h

Also could you share what Fortune 500 company you work for?

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Anonymous #3 12h

Bro, it's my everyday life. You don't have to listen to me. Just Google around, talk to anyone who works at a big company. You'll find out soon enough. What I've seen is that people who have figured out how to operate LLM-assisted are MILES ahead of their peers. We're talking weeks of work done in hours to days. It's mind boggling.

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Anonymous OP 12h

LLMs are just dangerous to societal structures tho, LLMs simply automate away creative and white-collar jobs without offering a safety net for the workers whose jobs they’re taking, AI development seems primarily to be a tool to continue to concentrate wealth and power within the hands of a few massive tech corporatiiba

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Anonymous OP 12h

Plus LLMs are inherently biased as they’re trained on the internet, they regularly inherit and amplify things like racism and sexism, guardrails need to be strict if we actually want to use these tools in hiring, public services, or criminal justice for example And this isn’t even mentioning the environmental destruction caused by the data centers and the stolen intellectual property by AI companies who stole art and writing that wasn’t theirs without permission L

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Anonymous #3 12h

And I'm not totally pro-AI either. I do believe there's a good chance the rich will use it to impoverish the masses and enrich themselves further. And the data centers, resource usage, dumbing of the masses concerns make me fear a dystopia. But I'd be lying out of my ass if I said it hasn't completely changed how we work. If you know how to use it, it's actually insane how useful it is.

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Anonymous OP 12h

I don’t know anyone who works at big companies bro, that’s why I’m asking where you work, so I can verify if your story is accurate, you’re just a random on the internet after all

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Anonymous OP 12h

yeah, I’ve simply found LLMs inaccurate, regular hallucinations / inaccuracies I couldn’t imagine relying on it for things that actually matter considering it regularly makes errors during my use

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Anonymous #3 12h

https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-internal-memo-using-ai-no-longer-optional-github-copilot-2025-6 https://www.hrgrapevine.com/us/content/article/2026-02-05-meta-links-ai-adoption-usage-to-reviews-rewards https://www.businessinsider.com/google-employee-ai-adoption-non-technical-software-engineer-performance-review-2026-2 https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelwells/2026/05/08/coinbase-ceo-announces-ai-layoffs-and-the-end-of-pure-managers/

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Anonymous #3 12h

I had the same experience as you about a year ago and found LLMs pretty useless because of the hallucinations. The difference now is that they've become much better, and I learned how to use them effectively. It's not a magic 8-ball; it still takes effort to get them to produce good results. In the hands of someone who doesn't know what they're doing (with LLMs and in the domain), you'll still get garbage.

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Anonymous OP 12h

First 3 companies acc have things to financially gain from AI chatbots being successful, and crypto is an unserious industry

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Anonymous #3 12h

https://www.fastcompany.com/91546461/jpmorgan-ceo-jamie-dimon-says-hell-hire-fewer-bankers-more-ai-people

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Anonymous OP 12h

I mean hallucinations are a mathematical certainty, there is 0 way to eliminate them

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Anonymous OP 12h

It’s also that companies use AI as an excuse for just general cost-cutting and layoffs due to an unsteady economy

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Anonymous #3 12h

I mean dude, feel free to bury your head in the sand. The reality is out there, and you'll experience it soon enough. I'm not saying the push to use LLMs isn't misguided and will have terrible consequences for society, but it's happening and is making jobs easier, so the fear of it completely automating white collar work is totally real.

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Anonymous OP 12h

Yeah, it’s just idk why I would support a technology that will make everyone’s lives meaningfully worse even if it increases efficiency, I care way more about people’s quality of lives and access to resources than efficiency, and often prioritizing the first means sacrificing efficiency

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Anonymous #3 12h

You don't need to support it, but you won't be able to keep a job because your peers who decide to use it and get good at it will completely outpace you. Yes, these things hallucinate... If you can't handle that and work around it, then that's a skill issue. I correct LLM hallucinations dozens of times a day. It becomes part of the job.

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Anonymous OP 12h

But like why the hell would I use AI just to correct it rather than just do the research myself, if I have to read the sources to verify them myself, why should I use an LLM at all?

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Anonymous OP 12h

You’re glazing it pretty hard for someone who says it hallucinates, is misguided, and will have terrible consequences for society

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Anonymous OP 12h

But honestly, it's not that much different from correcting a new hire who has no idea what they're doing. It's almost the same thing, actually. College grad hires make stupid mistakes all the time, but with feedback, they do the right thing. LLMs are exactly the same.

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Anonymous OP 12h

That’s not how LLMs work tho

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Anonymous #3 12h

Because your manual research will take you hours to days. An LLM will give you an > 80% baseline in seconds, which you can then iterate on both manually and LLM-assisted to get a superior product in hours. Your coworkers who have learned how to leverage LLMs will blow you out of the water, and you'll get fired.

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Anonymous #3 12h

Please tell me how LLMs work. Lol. I use them all day every day.

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Anonymous #3 12h

Think of it this way. The workplace isn't like college. In college, your professor will fail you for using an LLM even if produces a good product. In the workplace, the only thing that matters is that you delivered. They don't give a shit that you spent 3 weeks on it and hand-curated every point and source. They'll just see you took much longer to deliver the same thing, and then you'll be seen as a low-performer.

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Anonymous OP 12h

Tbh I’m not gonna be working a corporate job, most of the fields I’m looking in are social work which is generally anti-AI as a whole

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Anonymous OP 12h

Yeah, I don’t see myself working in a corporate position tho, that’s not typically where someone who studies what I study ends up generally

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Anonymous #3 12h

Unless you're out in the field working with your hands, such as in healthcare, construction, etc. it's quite likely that effective LLM usage will become a baseline expectation. I mean, dude, either it's actually capable automating all white collar work (and therefore an extremely effective assistant to current white collar workers), or it's a useless piece of shit that hallucinates to no end... You can't argue both without contradicting yourself

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Anonymous OP 11h

Well, I think it’s capable of automating with mistakes, but it does improve efficiency, but I think it’s adoption will cause more societal harm than good, plus LLM use will never be used in things like disability advocacy or therapy, those are inherently human practices

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