Dev complains: clients send 1:1 Gemini-written emails and ask questions like architects
kevinkern · x · 2026-11-06
A developer says that since "the PHP incident", former local clients have been coming to him for help — and nearly all of them write their emails with 1:1 Gemini output. They now ask questions as if they were software architects, even though most can barely turn on a computer. "It's bad," he concludes — AI is giving non-technical people inflated technical confidence.
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