Long before there were AI bots, a colleague of mine, annoyed at a requirement of issuing a daily status report, just used a random sentence maker from a table of 20 techie jargon sentence openers, 20 techie jargon sentence middles, and 20 techie jargon ends. Anybody who could read could immediately spot that these were bogus, meaningless nonsense.

Management at his project not only didn’t spot it, they held up one of his reports as the standard that all of his coworkers needed to aspire to.

This is how little management actually cares about these make-work things they demand of people.

A lot of my fellow students in university years took jobs as late shift/overnight shift security guards. They too were expected to write daily reports of things going on. “12:20 PM SO [security officer] Bloggins did physical check of west doors.” That kind of nonsense. Page after page after page of trivialities that nobody read. So one of my classmates started writing things like “01:47 AM SO Bloggins detected invading ninjas. 01:55 AM SO Bloggins wiped out ninja advance team. 02:01 AM SO Bloggins checked 7th floor access doors. All doors properly locked. 02:18 AM Boss ninja and SO Bloggins duel on 6th floor. 02:24 AM SO Bloggins discards boss ninja body in alley dumpster. 02:30 AM SO Bloggins checked automated teller bay for indigents. …” And so on.

Never once got a question. Not once.

Again, nobody bothers checking. The endless report-writing is just a “I’m powerful and can make you do stupid, pointless things” power move.

So it should surprise nobody that at this time, when AI is the requirement and metric, that people fuck with it for fun and profit.

When using a tool, doing a task, having pieces of flair, becomes a metric; people will lie, cheat and bypass in order to look good …