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by Snoozle 94 days ago
Why does this entire article read like chatgpt? Kind of ironic considering the content.

Big llm smells: 'Not "AI helps you autocomplete a function." Not "AI explains a stack trace." I mean the full-on narrative:'

'Sure, it's a weird language. It looks archaic. Sometimes it's hostile. Sometimes it's beautiful.

But still—if you know what you're doing—you can sit down with a keyboard and turn words into:

a product a workflow an automated business process a system that makes money while you sleep a tool that saves a team thousands of hours That's real power. It's leverage.'

'Not because we're lazy. Not because we're gatekeeping. Because building real systems is hard, and the number of people who can reliably do it is limited.'

Sometimes I think we get too caught up on what chatgpt will do to the economy, software, and businesses, and forget the most insidious aspect of this type of technology - we will no longer know how to write and all human text communication will confirm to a specific pattern.

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I don't know if it's LLM-generated or not, but I'm guessing you're right. It sure as hell matches the horrible choppy LinkedIn blogspam pattern, though, and that was enough to bounce me right there.
Short sentences. And construction in 3's. Not because......, not because...., but....because. or - It's this....., It's that.....And.......
Who's "we"? I won't stop knowing how to write. If other people do, that's their problem.
The next generation on humans growing up with TikTok autogenerated AI videos written by ChatGPT, generated by Sora and uploaded to the web using OpenClaw or whatever automation tool you wrote using Claude Code.

There are literally people running bots creating such shortform videos as we speak.

And there are millions of kids (and adults) scrolling those same videos as you reading this.

Let that sink in.

> The next generation on humans growing up with TikTok autogenerated AI videos written by ChatGPT

That's other people. I'm not in that cesspol and neither will my children.

I meant rather the market for human writing will vanish when 80% or more of the population views LLM text as good communication.
Why do "they" (bloggers) want to get rid of their own writing?

What are the good reasons to write a blog, minus those that involve you actually writing it?

There's money to be made if you can build an audience. There are many ifs on the way of course, but some people do earn handsomely from publishing. They're called content creators or influencers.
I guess just status farming, or some sort of delusion about writing being a hindrance to conveying your ideas, much like with writing code.
not one word written by the author, i'd rather read the prompt