User:BRPever/The Lost Art of Doing Things the Hard Way!

Upon the great discovery of “work smart, not hard,” humanity collectively decided to retire the second half of that sentence. In our pursuit of efficiency, we have successfully eliminated not just effort—but, in many cases, the need to think at all.

Not so long ago, writing a statement for a role required a brief and uncomfortable encounter with self-awareness. You would consider whether you were actually suitable. You would decide what to include, what to leave out, and how to present yourself without sounding completely unhinged.

Now, you simply ask. Your loyal AI produces a flawless, eloquent, 20/10 statement—rich in confidence, light on reality. It impresses half the audience and is ignored by the other half, who were never going to read it anyway. These are the sunshine voters.

Sunshine voters have achieved a level of efficiency previously thought impossible. There are those who support, and then there are those who support because someone else supported, and so on, forming a perfectly self-sustaining loop. The oppose side follows a similar pattern: a few brave individuals raise actual concerns, and shortly after, a well-organised pile appears. Truly, polls are a triumph of modern civilisation.

Then there are the newcomers—fragile, unpredictable, and highly responsive to minor inconveniences. At the first sign of discomfort, they retire. This is rarely permanent. Within approximately 24 hours (variance depends on account age), a rescue effort begins: encouraging messages, barnstars, gentle persuasion. The following day, without fail, the retiree returns, expresses gratitude, and resumes activity as though this were a scheduled maintenance cycle.

But the true masters of efficiency operate on another level entirely.

They create pages with AI. When those pages are nominated for deletion, they defend them with AI. When the pages are deleted, they escalate the matter—also with AI—to every available noticeboard. From there, they are redirected to deletion review, where they continue, unwaveringly, to argue through AI-generated responses.

At some point, patience runs out, and they are blocked.

Naturally, they respond in the only reasonable way: they ask AI to write their unblock request.

When that fails, the process evolves. Appeals are drafted by AI, responses to those appeals are drafted by AI, clarifications of those responses are drafted by AI. Eventually, one begins to suspect that the only humans involved are the ones slowly losing the will to participate.

I, for one, cannot stand it. I hate it.

I would recommend some related pages, but I’ve reached my daily limit for asking AI.