Misuse of Bots (Now Sold as "Agents", "Hey Hi", "Automation", and "Efficiency")
They even try to rebrand robotics as "hey hi" and try to sell slop as "work":
Bots - as in automation of some task - are what computing is generally about.
Computers take and then handle long, complex, tedious and repetitive tasks.
Computers take human-readable instructions, turn them into machine code, then let 'silicon' do the task very fast.
However, this whole "Bots" thing is getting out of control, mostly by people who make false promises regarding efficiency by misusing buzzwords and capitalising on ignorance (among managers for the most part).
More is not better.
More can be less.
More can drown us in unnecessary signals/information.
20+ years ago I wrote programs with GUIs to do my research and some of them wrote the results to Web pages. I soon had Web pages generated by my programs and those pages were of use to me, but not to Google or to anyone accessing my site (or searching Google). I then realised that just creating more and more of the same was pointless. It was like "slop".
Since then the Web has gotten worse, with spamfarms aplenty, then slopfarms.
The notion that more "content" (quantity) was the goal got misused and companies' heads now think that employees producing more text (e.g. from LLMs) makes them more "productive" or that code-spewing LLMs somehow make the company better off (even if rapidly buried/drowning in code it does not understand and no human being ever bothered to audit).
We need to abandon this notion that slop is productivity or that misusing machine to "generate" (as in "generative", another buzzword) a lot of stuff makes us superhumans with "claws".
A lot of things that could be delegated to or offloaded to computers (or robotics) are already outside our hands. The rest needs a "human touch" for very good reasons. █