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Show Me Less Output

The last time I saw someone showing off AI-generated reports, trying to present it as something insightful and helpful, I was really  annoyed . It is NOT HELPFUL at all, to show me more output. Before the LLM era, it was considered as productive if one comes up with a long report full of charts. The trouble of composing long paragraph and mangling data used to stop one from writing useless reports. Word count, lines of code, were considered as productivity signals to some extent. Even if one tried to hack the signal, like a best-selling author who can go on forever about a simple opinion, it required lots of labor. However, now everyone is equipped with the latest shinny model that is trained to complete text. Surely the signal hacker will try to throw slop grenade everywhere to blow off everyone to appear productive. If your point can be made with one chart, do not draw two. More output is not a sign of productivity. If anything, less output is.