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by furyofantares 103 days ago
Claude also wrote the blog post, which means I'm not interested in reading it even though I'd love to hear directly from the author about the topic.
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How do we know that Claude wrote the blog post?
The aesethetic tells are excessive headings for small sections, many of which are largely just a list. There's the numbered list but then the sections that are a sequence of "Bold Text: Single sentence." Plenty of em-dash too, but I don't really look at that much.

It's basically a long list of factual statements all with the same weight, very little opinion expressed about the experience. I don't actually mind an infodump from a human, you usually can still work out some of what they care about, and you also can be reasonably sure they didn't fill in the gaps. Most likely I would have enjoyed whatever the author fed into the LLM.

Speaking as someone who has used em-dashes and semicolons for years, it’s a shame what the AI companies have done with punctuation.
Yeah we’re in a weird place where the prompt would still have to contain most of the content and then be “prettied up”. Since generic AI “prettied up” style is so same-y and dry it would be refreshing to just see whatever the original was, warts and all. Just blog-post the prompt!