Comment by epaga

Comment by epaga 4 days ago

7 replies

It's almost depressing to me how much this post feels like a breath of fresh air if for nothing else than because it's clearly hand-written, not ghost-written by LLM.

No repetitive short sentences, no "Not X, just Y." patterns, and lots of opinionated statements, written confidently in the first person.

Please more of this.

embedding-shape 4 days ago

> Please more of this.

Same, I'm caring less about "Yeah, I've learned something new" and more about "Yeah, this sounds like I'm reading the thoughts of a human, how refreshing" which is a sad state of affairs.

I've adopted my own writing style because of this too, used to be very careful about spelling and grammar, very nitpicky, but have now stopped doing that, because people started calling my perfectly spelled responses LLM-generated...

raincole 4 days ago

Completely off-topic, but I recently had my "AI-depression moment" when I found out top domain writer.com is owned by an AI company now.

hsbauauvhabzb 4 days ago

It’s also relatively short and concise :)

  • nxobject 4 days ago

    I used to think that “omit needless words” was a bit too strict to be meaningful… and then I read AI slop.

nxobject 4 days ago

He showed that it wasn’t only easy to not sound like AI—but that it was imperative for culture to flourish. Whether composing long hand or typing with a mechanical keyboard in Vim, he took back online discourse, one blogpost at a time. /s