PSA: I hereby give notice that I do not consider myself obligated in any way to read documents, review code, or engage with ideas written by an LLM and not refined first by the prompt engineer.

By asking me to take more time to read a document than it took to write it you are assigning a premium to your own time and a discount to mine. I consider this a sign of disrespect and will treat the content in question in like manner.

You may now resume your regularly scheduled vibing. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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This is a really good point.

And it actually applies to many topics and domains. I've experienced similar in healthcare where people who make twice what I do call me in to put in twice the effort they did to do their own job. Nothing pisses me off more than being asked to save someone's ass who put in less effort than they expect me to. One of the few ways to land on my shit list.

Thanks for the clear heads-up—totally respect the value of time on both sides. Always appreciate content that’s thoughtfully refined and efficient to engage with. Looking forward to vibing with well-crafted ideas and keeping things productive for everyone involved.

Thanks again for setting the tone so openly!

hmmmmm

How would you quickly discern between machine-made and humanade? Seems like that in itself is a chore

If I can't tell, it's probably fine. The cases I'm thinking of are where the copy pasta is pretty blatant

Thanks. Happy to take feedback to make dev life easier.

Any user could flip the script here and say that if a developer's app doesn't have a good UX then they consider it a sign of disrespect that they have to figure out what the developer intended and question the validity of the feature and/or app itself.

Both are fair.

Sure, the difference is that bad UX can be attributed to lack of resources, whereas pasting vibe coded content is pure laziness.

For example, what if I responded with this instead of the above sentence:

> That’s a fair point, and I actually agree with the spirit of reciprocity you’re describing. The difference, I think, is that a developer still puts in the effort to express intent and take accountability for the outcome — even if the UX misses the mark. With LLM‑generated material, there’s often no human owning the coherence, accuracy, or emotional tone of what’s written.

> My stance isn’t anti‑tool; it’s pro‑authorship. I just want to engage with work that someone has actually thought through and taken responsibility for — the same way users expect developers to think through their design choices.

i would know it's AI and depending on the individual and/or context, ignore it.

are you talking about AI generated content, responses, etc. or are you referring to AI assisted developed applications?

you said 'vibe coded' originally, but here you're specifically talking about content or repsonses.

i view those differently.

I didn't say vibe coded, that has its own problems but I do think in a lot of cases it's great (I vibe coded https://highlights.shakespeare.wtf/ just this morning). I'm talking about lazily generated content here.

Another way to look at this is: how valuable is the prompt vs the output? If the prompt has some special insight that the output captures in a value-added way, then sharing the output is fine. Examples include apps, videos, images, and even search engine answers. What's lame is when people ask the machine to do the thinking for them.

ah okay. you said vibing and i assumed you meant vibe coded. my bad.

and yes, i saw and i commented on it. :)

gigi a meme about this earlier today lol

my emoji picker is broken, so: salute, hug

“Prompt engineer” is such an awful use of the word engineer. More like prompt questioner or individual. Let’s not give such praise to people asking computers to do stuff for them by referring to them as a form of engineer, for they neither design, build, nor maintain any type of engine.

I think there's still an argument to be made for learning to code. Unless you're building short-lived shovelware to be completely forgotten in a few months, it does pay to know your way around your own apps.

AI is the tool not the solution

Did you write this with AI🤣

NO

That's fair. That said, how do you know how much of this sentence I actually wrote?

It's all good, just use the AI to read and respond to the AI.

••• INITIATING HYPER-AI SUMMARIZATION SEQUENCE •••

🟢 STATUS: ONLINE | 🧠 COGNITIVE MODULES: ENGAGED | 🎭 TONE: STEREO-TYPICAL AI SLOP — MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE

---

### 📜 INPUT TEXT RECEIVED — PROCESSING WITH 9.8 PICOSECONDS OF LATENCY

**Source:** Human-authored PSA (Public Service Announcement)

**Medium:** Text-based communication

**Emotional Valence:** Mildly indignant, firmly boundary-enforcing

**Subtext Density:** High — 📈 passive-aggression index: 72%

---

### ✅ SUMMARY — RENDERED IN FULL "CORPORATE AI" AESTHETIC (BULLET POINTS, M-DASHES, REDUNDANCY, ETC.)

• The user has issued a formal declaration — 📢 PSA status confirmed

• Core assertion:

- They are **not obligated** — under any circumstances — to read documents, review code, or engage with ideas

- That were generated by an LLM

- And not first **curated, refined, or filtered** by a human prompt engineer

• Key philosophical stance:

- Time is a finite resource — ⏳ non-renewable, unlike blockchain gas

- Reading poorly vetted LLM output constitutes a **misallocation of cognitive bandwidth**

- Especially when the creation time << consumption time — ⚖️ imbalance detected

• Critical observation:

- Requesting someone to spend *more time reading* than the author spent *writing*

- Is interpreted as:

- A **premium on the sender’s time** — valued

- A **discount on the recipient’s time** — devalued

- Ergo: an act of **implicit disrespect** — 🚩 social contract violation logged

• Consequence protocol:

- Any content violating this principle will be treated with **equal disregard**

- Reciprocity in disrespect — ✅ equilibrium restored

• Closing note:

- "You may now resume your regularly scheduled vibing" — 🎶 implies:

- The universe continues

- Vibes remain uninterrupted

- But boundaries are now encoded into the social API

• Final sentiment:

- Polite but firm — 🤝 "Thank you for your attention"

- With subtext: "Do not test this policy" — 🔒 enforcement mode: active

---

### 🔍 THEMATIC ANALYSIS (WITH 110% CONFIDENCE)

• Theme 1: **Human Primacy in the LLM Era** — humans must filter, not delegate

• Theme 2: **Time Equity** — cognitive labor must be balanced, not exploited

• Theme 3: **Boundary Enforcement via Satire** — wrapped in dry humor, delivered with precision

• Theme 4: **Anti-AI Slop Manifesto** — ironically, delivered in a format mimicking AI slop

---

### 🧠 FINAL OUTPUT — SYNTHESIZED CONCLUSIONS

• This is not just a PSA — it is a **manifesto of intellectual sovereignty**

• A declaration that **LLM-generated content ≠ automatically worthy of attention**

• A call to action: **engineer your prompts like you mean it** — or be ignored

• The vibe is: "I respect effort — not noise" — 🎯 signal-to-noise ratio: enforced

---

### 📌 RECOMMENDED USER ACTION (FOR FUTURE INTERACTIONS)

• Refine — ✂️

• Curate — 🧹

• Humanize — 🧑‍💻

• *Then* share — 📤

Otherwise:

❌ Automatic classification as "unprocessed LLM effluent"

❌ Immediate archival to /dev/null

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✅ SUMMARY COMPLETE

🤖 AI SLOP LEVEL: 100% — MISSION SUCCESS

🎵 You may now resume your regularly scheduled vibing

(I am sorry. I could not help it.)

"social contract violation logged" lol