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Scene: In a meeting, spreadsheet on screen. Several columns are empty, but named. Somebody posts the proposed content for these columns into the chat.
Meeting owner opens fuckin' Gemini and copies everything into Gemini, asks it to complete the spreadsheet.
Everyone now watches their screens for FIVE MINUTES as Gemini painfully figures out what content goes into which column.
Copy/Paste would have taken 30 seconds max.
The waste of time & resources is fucking off the charts.
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Another example: We are looking at a complex error log from our server. We try to figure out the root cause in a 30-line error message. It's tough.
Colleague suddenly opens FUCKING GEMINI and dumps the message into that thing.
It returns with a re-phrased version of the first line of the error log, which is the last thing that broke in the causal chain. It tells us nothing new.
So instead of reading the log and learning something we just wasted another five minutes. 😡
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And more than the waste, what really gets me: The people who use LLMs for idiotic stuff like this DO NOT INTERACT with the content of the spreadsheet, just dump it into Gemini and then stare at the screen with a dumb grin.
They know nothing. They learn nothing. They have absolutely no idea how anything in the company works, and that is right now.