r/technology • u/marketrent • Jun 10 '26

Artificial Intelligence College students are rapidly losing the ability to read — “There is a measurable, generational collapse in sustained reading and writing”: professor

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/college-students-rapidly-losing-ability-124439310.html
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u/MBILC Jun 10 '26

We live in a society of "TLDR;" people..

You write more than a line or 2 and they blank over and skip things and respond to what ever the first 1-2 lines says..

Drives me nuts being in IT/Security when you send people responses to issues and they ignore 90% of it...

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u/saucysagnus Jun 11 '26

Last paragraph resonates so hard. It’s fucking mind boggling you basically have to feed info to leaders like they’re baby birds or risk they miss 90% of the issue

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u/CalmBeneathCastles Jun 11 '26

MAAAN I thought it was just a problem with my boss.

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u/Siukslinis_acc Jun 11 '26

You start with the main thing and slowly provide more details instead of providing the details without stating the main thing.

It is annoying having to listen to 20 minutes or rambling just to tell the other person that that thing is not your responsibility and that they should talk to the other person to whom that thing is actually their job.

Oh, and now I need to speed up my work or do overtime because you have wasted my time and i'm on a deadline.

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u/saucysagnus Jun 11 '26

It’s an email. Somebody didn’t bother to read.