[redundantly]

I love projects like this, doing things because you can. Especially low power, off-grid projects.

However I did not love the writing style of this article. Lots of repetition. Asking questions to stress a funny point. Lots of repetition.

I don't mean to sound like a jerk, even though I've succeeded at it. The author is cool, what they did is just as cool.

[rbinv]

It's AI slop. In fact, most (if not all) of this blog's recent posts are AI slop.

[CaptainFever]

That's not what slop means. This is anything but low-effort or low-quality.

[yawnxyz]

the project isn't AI at all, but the writeup is definitely AI. It overuses clickbait / hijacking / hook patterns that makes it really jarring:

- poses a lot of questions: "Me? I turned mine into a server that saves me money" / "Could I have just run this on my Mac like a normal person? Absolutely. But where’s the fun in that?" - it's not just X, it's Y: "it’s not just dumping power into devices; it’s managing charging curves properly" - creates scenarios and juxtapositions: "The workflow is beautifully simple: My image processing service sends images to the phone for OCR processing using Apple’s Vision framework. The phone processes the text, sends it back, and updates its dashboard with processing stats. All while I watch birds outside my window and feel smug about my setup."

I think this kind of writing borrows from twitter threads and youtube videos. I think we're going to be so sick of these patterns soon. And also, I don't think this is necessarily what the LLMs do natively, I think it might just come from bad RLHFs