Employee considers leaving his job due to overly confident coworker’s attitude: ‘AI gives you generic answers based on patterns, and this guy takes those answers, shares them with us like they’re some groundbreaking strategy’

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Olivia Arocena • Writer and Editor
Aug 12, 2026 1:45 PM EDT

Some people really forgot what thinking is

AI-generated ideas all sound the same; it doesn't matter if they come from the free version of the LLM's or if they come from the most perfectly designed model to date, or whether you've prompted it to exhaustion. They sound bland and style-less, especially if you are looking for them to be creative.

AIs are really good at investigating or organizing your thoughts into outlines, for example, but even if you only use them for that, you still have to be very careful because they tend to make mistakes in sourcing, interpreting, and reasoning. You can totally use their output for a first draft, but you certainly have to check the sources and everything the AI has written, in search of errors and irregularities.

I've worked with design teams before, and when AI entered the picture, things started getting a little more confusing. For example, yesterday, we were trying to develop a tagline for a campaign, and I noticed most of the ideas and copy were AI-generated, and the people who were pitching them really thought they were actively involved in the thought process with the LLM, when they actually only prompted it with a question for the model to solve.

So not only are people overusing AI, but they also think they are actively coming up with ideas when they are not. My point is that people can intuitively tell when an idea is generic and made by a bot, and that works to the disadvantage of what you want to communicate with the message you came up with by prompting the model. I believe people will naturally choose things they feel humane, no matter if they are a little bit more 'imperfect'.

At any rate, we've got a long way to go before most people catch up with that knowledge and stop favouring their 'seemingly perfect' bot's creations. If we have a job, we will most likely have at least one coworker we don't like, and we should consider ourselves lucky if it's just one, like it is for this employee.

Do you think he should leave in search of a better work environment?

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    The overly confident employee

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  • Anyone else have that one coworker who makes everyone miserable?

    So there's this wannabe guy in our office who is toxic as f . He has had a fight with pretty much everyone, literally. And on top of that, he plays music
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  • out loud on the floor without headphones. Dude, seriously? It's a small office. There are like 10 people on our floor, and everyone tries to avoid
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  • this guy because nobody wants to disturb their peace. The guy uses Al for everything. I'm not against using Al, I use it a lot
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  • myself, but you need to understand that Al suggestions are not automatically practical or implementable for every brand or product. Al gives
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  • you generic answers based on patterns, and this guy takes those answers, shares them with us like they're some groundbreaking strategy, and I'm just sitting there like, LOL.
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  • He'll literally share an Al- generated reference with the design team and ask them to create the exact same thing. That's not how design works. A reference is supposed to
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  • communicate a direction or idea, not be treated like a blueprint. And the worst part? He genuinely thinks he's always right.
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    The employee pitching an AI generated idea

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  • Honestly, most of the people around me are driving me insane. I'm seriously considering leaving this place because I don't know how much longer I can work around
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  • people who have absolutely no idea what they're doing but somehow have the confidence of experts.
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  • Maybe I'm just ranting at this point, but holy sh, some people are exhausting.
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    The entire team working in a supposedly groundbreaking idea

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  • PrimaryRecord5 Are you one of my co workers?? this sub Reddit reminds me over and over no matter where you work it's all the same
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  • Get_Nice_69 Welcome to adulthood. You just described every job
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