[stavros]

I really love AI for lots of things, but, when I'm reading a post, the AI aesthetic has started to grate. I read articles and they all have the same "LLM" aesthetic, and I feel like I'm reading posts written by the same person.

Sure, the information is all there, but the style just puts me off reading it. I really don't like how few authors have a voice any more, even if that voice is full of typos and grammatical errors.

[SilenN]

What sections where you most off put by?

I used Claude to expand on my ideas for a few of the purely informational things, and for formatting, but this article is largely written by hand.

For example "Interface tests are the ability to know what's wrong and explaining it." is in hindsight a confusing sentence. Many such cases.

[stavros]

It's things like this "super impactful!!!" style it has:

> Enter Claude Code 2.0.

> The UX had evolved. The harness is more flexible and robust. Bugs are fixed. But that's all secondary.

It's OK for emphasis on some things, but when you see it on every blog, it's a bit much.

Plus, I dislike that everything is lists with LLMs, it's another thing that you just start seeing everywhere.

[SilenN]

That section doesn't include a lick of AI writing. One tell (maybe?) is that I switch from past tense to present tense mid sentence.

Either a) I sound like an LLM when I'm writing articles (possible) or b) turing test AGI something something.

Lists point is fair, I did use Claude for formatting. Where did it off put you here?

[stavros]

There isn't a specific place, it's the general aesthetic. Maybe you do sound like an LLM :P I guess it's not unlikely to pick up some mannerisms from them when everyone is using them.

I guess I don't really mind the use of an LLM or not, it's more the style that sounds very samey with everything else. Whether it's an LLM or not is not very relevant, I guess.

[SilenN]

Good point. I'll consciously be trying to write more "out of distribution" now.

[mmq]

> a) I sound like an LLM when I'm writing articles (possible) or b) turing test AGI something something.

We entered the machinable culture. We spent many years trying to make the machine mimic humans, now humans are mimicking the machine :)

[HNisCIS]

My brain kinda shuts off when I read this stuff because I know it's more of a "text shaped object" than actual text. I find LLM text to be too fluffy and information sparse much of the time so I subconsciously start skimming it more than actually reading it.

[SilenN]

Outside of the story at the start I intentionally tried to make it information dense. Would appreciate feedback!

[HNisCIS]

The story itself is fine it's more the trained response to LLM voice that causes problems

[richardfulop]

what's crazy to me is that it's literally a sentence in your prompt to make it change the style, but i guess some people are not bothered by it

[SilenN]

Would appreciate feedback, see my comment above!