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title: "If You are Asking for Human Attention, Demonstrate Human Effort"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/if-you-are-asking-for-human-attention-demonstrate-human-effort-k23qenall
source_url: https://tombedor.dev/human-attention-and-human-effort
type: article
source: "Lobsters"
published: 2026-06-13T17:18:01.406Z
updated: 2026-06-13T17:18:21.469Z
tags: ["leadership", "code-review"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
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# If You are Asking for Human Attention, Demonstrate Human Effort

**[Lobsters](https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

As AI-generated text floods software teams, a new etiquette challenge emerges: when is it acceptable to forward raw AI output to a colleague? The author argues that requesting human attention requires demonstrating human effort — meaning AI content should always be clearly labeled, reviewed before sharing, and accompanied by personal commentary. Sending unread AI output to teammates is inconsiderate, as attention is a scarce resource and reading AI text all day creates fatigue.

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