Here's a nice #darkpattern from #AmazonQDeveloper. Installing it on my #debian laptop and it pops up this GUI. Now, grey text on white background is a completely pedestrian dark pattern.

The thing that is new for me, that isn't obvious from a single screenshot, is that the "skip" grey text doesn't appear at all for like 10-20 seconds. When you first see this dialog box, there's no 'skip' button. This might lead you to believe it isn't possible to skip. I tend to read things that pop up. And so while I was reading the skip button appeared.

Thanks #darkpatterns

@cwebber I’ve adopted a principle at work when people want to show me something they produced using an LLM: I will not be the first to read the output. If you used an LLM to produce something, have you read it and decided it’s good enough to share with me? If you can’t be arsed to read it, I can’t either.

It is shocking the number of people who take LLM output, copy/paste it, and don’t read it.