[DoctorOW]

> I'd rather hear "the code is bad" than "the post sounds AI-written".

Of course you would. Reading through and judging the quality of AI output is the largest amount of effort in a world where you can get everything else by prompting. Please internalize this: If you want to be respected you will have to put in effort yourself. There is no way around this.

[hugocorreia90]

I truly appreciate your feedback and it's definitely a lesson learned for me. As I said to cmrdporcupine, "The only reason for passing my replies through AI was just because it's my first time posting here and opening a side-project of mine publicly. "

All the engine architecture decisions are mine though and this project came up to solve a real problem in a data pipeline that serves multiple clients, connectors, producers, etc.

[nonameiguess]

I'm late to the party, but there is a dilemma that seems to be facing poor English speakers and writers that I think is a bit imagined, and using LLMs to cover your weakness with the language hurts the public perception of you. There was an article posted last year about East African contractors who were used to do the RLHF post-training for early frontier models, saying LLM speak was really just the way Africans speak English. I don't think that's entirely correct, because frankly, after several decades of working with international teams, I think it's the way a lot of non-Anglophone English speakers speak.

It comes across as both childish and overly formal at the same time. Affected, too excited. It's the guy that says "Hi name!" on Slack and then waits for you to respond, instead of just saying what they actually wanted to say. You're responding to everyone here with some variant of "thank you, I appreciate it." That just isn't the way people speak to each other in normal conversation. It's the way a consultant speaks to you when you're being told you're being laid off and your own manager is too cowardly to deliver the news personally. Sandwich the real point between effusion and praise, when all we actually want is the real point. It feels patronizing, like we're being spoken down to. It's the way politicians and CEOs speak, every word prepared by committee, nothing genuine.

It's all the worse knowing this isn't even you and we're being patronized and spoken down to by a marketing bot you're delegating communication to.

[hugocorreia90]

Yes, I can see you're a bit late indeed. Several replies ago I have already acknowledged that I used LLM for the initial post and initial replies.

I use AI everyday, for different purposes, fixing my English when I feel I need, brainstorming, automate tasks, getting ideas for dinner, asking things I don't know about raising a 1 year old boy, eck even finance stuff. And to be honest, I'm quite pleased about it and see no shame on it. I'm no salesperson, nor I have a grasp at marketing, nor I'm used to promote my work. With this thread in HN, (which was a suggestion by LLM! :D), I just wanted to share what I built a let others use it, regardless of typing each character or not, or using LLM, or using smoke signals.

But one thing I cannot avoid, is being polite and friendly because that is who I am when speaking in my native language or in English with my peers. So, saying "Hey" and "Hi", "I appreciate" and "thank you", is part of my day to day.

I didn't know about the article you mentioned but thanks for letting me know. :)