It's fine that people talk to chatbots, but they shouldn't expect me to listen to theirs.

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A personal take on the etiquette of sharing AI-generated text in human interactions. The core argument is that pasting raw chatbot output onto others is poor communication because it buries the writer's actual intent and shifts cognitive burden to the reader. The post offers practical guidance: write clearly from your own thinking, or at minimum edit AI output for brevity and lead with the most important point. A concrete example covers pull request descriptions generated by coding agents, suggesting a convention of adding a short human-written preface to provide framing and endorse the AI summary.

Don't Make Me Talk to Your Chatbot

I highly disagree with the shown example.
Yeah pasting a link to a conversation with ai instead of explaining it yourself can be bad, but the ai i use is exceptionally good at providing pull request descriptions or commit messages, why should i then do them by hand?
Sometimes it makes sense because the AI does not know the “why” behind the change, but if the “why” is absolutely obvious, why do i have to write the description myself?