AI might actually be fixing the way we talk.
Which is honestly not something I expected 😂
It just happened to me again. I was about to write: "Remind me to install Arch Linux on my new PC around 6 PM."
Then I deleted "around". Because what the hell does "around 6 PM" even mean to an AI? 😂
5:50? 6:00? 6:17? Whenever it feels emotionally ready?
So I wrote: "At 6 PM."
And I realised I do this ALL THE TIME now. I write something. I read it again. Then I think: "Nope. That's ambiguous." So I rewrite it.
Not because my English is bad. Not because the AI doesn't understand normal language. But because talking to machines makes you realise how incredibly vague we humans are all day long.
"Later." "Soon." "Maybe." "Do it properly." "Make it better." "Something like this." "Around 6." "You know what I mean."
Yes, I know what I mean. That's exactly the problem 😂
And the funny thing is, I think this is starting to affect the way I communicate with humans too.
I've always tried to communicate as efficiently and transparently as possible but I definitely notice something. I'm more careful with words. More precise with instructions. I notice ambiguity much faster. I think more about whether what I wrote actually says what I think it says.
And as a developer this becomes even more obvious with specs. I've always thought that half of software engineering problems were probably humans badly explaining things to other humans. And then building the wrong thing very efficiently 😂
So while everyone keeps talking about AI making people lazy, I'm starting to wonder if it's secretly training millions of people to become better at expressing exactly what they want.
Which would be a pretty funny plot twist.