i do the same, at first naturally because this is how all the cool kids talked on the places of the internet i frequented when i came of age ca. 2000-2005
now i do it because i am considered a seniorish person, and i need to deal with many coworkers that have gone beyond fear of picking up a phone and are now seemingly afraid to even type messages and i want to show them that it's okay to bring a little bit of yourself to your communication
- X is typing indicators turning on/off/on/off for 5 minutes
- X finally sends an obviously llm inspired 5 paragraph argument that on the face of it looks well structured but has all the mental nutrients of a bag of cheetos
- the message is stuffed with at least six emoji to somehow preemptively control the emotional state of the recipient
all to say "please take a look cuz i think you forgot to add unit tests for y?" and i have neither the stamina to engage with nor the desire to conform to this milquetoast inauthentic fluffy overly uptight way of communicating
But in your comment history, you literally don't write like this.
I didn't think twice about it in the article. But I don't read all lowercase as "friendly." It reads curt. Like you didn't have time. Which makes me not want to ask you for help. It's what my boss does when he has 12 seconds to help people, and it discourages people from messaging him.
It also makes it hard to read where a sentence ends.
I'm a little surprised to see so many people not just say this is a better way to write, but that merely capitalizing your sentences is the corpo propaganda way of writing.
now i do it because i am considered a seniorish person, and i need to deal with many coworkers that have gone beyond fear of picking up a phone and are now seemingly afraid to even type messages and i want to show them that it's okay to bring a little bit of yourself to your communication
- X is typing indicators turning on/off/on/off for 5 minutes
- X finally sends an obviously llm inspired 5 paragraph argument that on the face of it looks well structured but has all the mental nutrients of a bag of cheetos
- the message is stuffed with at least six emoji to somehow preemptively control the emotional state of the recipient
all to say "please take a look cuz i think you forgot to add unit tests for y?" and i have neither the stamina to engage with nor the desire to conform to this milquetoast inauthentic fluffy overly uptight way of communicating