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by sastraxi 93 days ago
Yeah, I understand it's hard to find the balance here. I'd imagine you feel the need to ship at the same time as writing about it. For me, the post you shared in your reply as well as in the OP have been expanded to be about 3-4x as long as they need to be, and I'm going to assume you're using AI to generate them due to the writing style. My feedback is to consider writing shorter posts, but doing it by hand -- your prose style here is friendly, engaging and direct. I wish that your articles were the same.

TL;DR: I feel like my time is being wasted when I read AI-written articles, so I stop reading. Do with my anecdote what you will!

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Interesting, thank you! I feel the same about avoiding reading AI stuff, that's my worry here. In OP, I had way too much content and had AI help me reduce the size of if. But I learned a lot since then and some parts of the post bother me a bit now.

For the second post, it was a wall of prose that my colleague, Josef, wrote (I'm pretty sure without AI). I added the more concrete example sections and then asked AI to suggest some heading names to break down the prose, and I'm assuming this was my mistake as the headings are the first thing people read and AI loves headings. I always broke down text in headings before AI, this suck haha.

Anyway, I'll definitely increase my neurotic levels about this. It's not worth at all to rush things if it will make the post more empty to read in any way.