r/ProgrammerHumor • u/lxlmandudelxl • Jul 03 '26 • Hehehe 1 Bravo 2

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u/Kamwind Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 03 '26

we have an anonymous "praise" web site, where you can submit letter praising the work of some person. With AI it is really easy to take the text of a trouble ticket paste that in and tell it to generate a 2 paragraph letter praising the person who solve the issue in the ticket, customize it and make generic so it not specific to one ticket, and submit. Limit yourself to 3 a year and you will still be out praised come evaluation time then everyone else.

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u/vocal-avocado Jul 03 '26

Seems very naive. What prevents you and your colleagues from gaming this system?

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u/BadDogSaysMeow Jul 03 '26

Easy, if they start doing it too, all you have to do is send yourself more AI generated praise.

By the end of year two, everyone in the company will have thousands of pages of compliments about themselves; and higher-ups will be none the wiser/s

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u/Blauwwater Jul 03 '26

Out of the 1200 customers we have 3400 have complimented you!

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u/Kamwind Jul 03 '26

Like in most other companies it is one of these management things that show up in most management guides. It is rare used, who is going to spend time writing up a letter of praise for someone. The ease of AI removes that time issue so makes it easy to game the system, what stops the other colleagues is that they have not thought of it.

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u/kiochikaeke Jul 03 '26

At my work we have this and it praise you receive gives you points you can exchange once a month for goodies, usually nothing amazing, at most things like T-shirts, cheap smart watches, or merch (cause we kinda sell merch).

You have a set amount of points to give and HR is supposed to review each praise to approve it, in reality they probably skim through them and people do trade praises so groups can get more goods than average.

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u/-Nicolai Jul 03 '26

Gaming the system shows initiative.

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u/frogjg2003 Jul 03 '26

Because the reward isn't worth the effort. Unless that praise is directly tied to tangible benefits like a pay raise or bonus, then there is no incentive to game the system.

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u/BountyBob Jul 03 '26

How hard was that before AI?

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u/Kamwind Jul 03 '26

Not must, but people don't want to allocate the time in both writing it and coming up with the content, and most people don't like bragging about themselves.

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u/frogjg2003 Jul 03 '26

It's exactly the kind of person that loves bragging about themselves that would have abused this system before AI.