Comment by WickyNilliams

Comment by WickyNilliams a day ago

11 replies

"Claude Code isn’t just an interactive CLI; it’s also a powerful SDK for building entirely new agents—..."

Em dash and "it's not X, it's Y" in one sentence. Tired of reading posts written by AI. Feels disrespectful to your readers

freedomben a day ago

I have the same instinctive response to reading AI generated stuff, but I'm coming to a more moderate position where I'm trying to judge the content on the content itself. For example, in a post like this, it doesn't bother me at all because it's still an extremely useful reference, and the author clearly read through, organized, and edited the output. This is a good example of usage of AI in my opinion.

The people who just copy paste output from ai and ship it as a blog post however, deserve significant condemnation for that.

  • WickyNilliams 20 hours ago

    Writing is a tool for thought I feel, and when you're outsourcing your thought, it detracts from whatever you intended to say. I guess if it was that heavily-edited such a telltale sign wouldn't have remained.

    I use AI for code, but I never use it for any writing that is for human eyes.

  • nxor a day ago

    Not worried about hallucinations?

    • freedomben 21 hours ago

      I definitely would be, though this part I consider mitigation:

      > the author clearly read through, organized, and edited the output.

      Also worth noting, I've read plenty of human written stuff that has errors in it, so I read everything skeptically anyway.

    • NewsaHackO 21 hours ago

      If the author wrote the draft then reread it throughly then it most likely would only have human induced hallucinations

yard2010 a day ago

The internet is dead. Long live the internet.

  • resize2996 a day ago

    the eternal september 2: it's eternaler this time

    • joquarky 10 hours ago

      We're on Eternal September 3 now.

      The iPhone brought us Eternal September 2.

paulcole 21 hours ago

> Tired of reading posts written by AI.

Didn’t realize you were forced to read this?

> Feels disrespectful to your readers

I didn’t feel disrespected—I felt so respected I read the whole thing.

  • WickyNilliams 20 hours ago

    Nothing there implies I was forced. I read the whole thing. It was not disclosed that it was written (in part?) by AI. And That sentence I quoted was pretty far along.

    • paulcole 20 hours ago

      > It was not disclosed that it was written (in part?) by AI

      Who gives a shit?

      If you can’t stand AI writing and you made it pretty far along before getting upset, who are you mad at, the author or yourself? Would you be happier if you found out this was written without AI and that you were just bad at detecting AI writing?