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by Tiberium 36 days ago
Fake writing: Claude wrote 10 paragraphs instead of import human

https://www.pangram.com/history/dee030c0-0362-43d0-8fbd-bbab...

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A lot of people write articles, then use an LLM to sum it up.

I do that for most of my docs because I ramble.

I prefer my rambling, but I think others like the tidied up LLM summary.

How does this document score - just wrote it today, used Gemini to sum it up: https://github.com/cuzzo/clear/blob/master/docs/retrospectiv...

I basically don't read anything that looks LLM-generated at this point, so I'd prefer that you included your rambling version alongside if you still want to have a generated version.
The great part about Git History is that the rambling typo filled version is available if you want it!

https://github.com/cuzzo/clear/commit/8c8a50f1d2c8fa2e8dca64...

There is a subtle hubris in the attempt to wrap reality around one's own preference rather than the one adapting their own perceptions to match reality.
I do LLM scaffolding, fill in my words, then pass over it manually.

On my worst, I rant worse than listening to an LLM.

When I make an effort, my personality comes through at no cost to the reader.

So far I haven't found a prompt that can impersonate me properly. I'm open to it.

Seeding it with a handful of my favorite articles gets me halfway, but the editing is still needed.

You seem to like SQL, don't you? Your README reads a bit fallacious: Just because SQL is a great alive language, it doesn't make your language a great one. I think it's called survivor bias.
lol sorry i am not a native english speaker and thus i let claude to write a post mortem analysis on what it has done wrong :D
This comment is evidence that your write-up would have been just fine and understandable by other humans. Using AI to write your technical writing for you makes me lose trust in what you're saying. No one cares if you're a non-native English speaker, just write.
Your English seems good enough to communicate. I'd encourage you to trust your abilities; any misunderstandings can be clarified with follow-up questions if necessary.
Maybe you didn't stop to consider the cognitive load of writing in a second language and how much delegating to AI reduces it.
This neglects the cognitive load of reading LLM-generated text, which is often overly verbose, awkward, and confusing.
Well that's not my problem, that's yours.
Me explaining to a teacher why i cheated on the test: well did you stop to consider the cognitive load of doing the problems myself and how much easier it was to cheat?
Not even remotely the same situation.
There are actually multiple ways to completely eliminate the cognitive load of any sort of activity, so please, don't settle on half measures
Tell me one for that specifically, or gtfo.
Imagine the horror of practicing a skill in order to get better at it!
imagine the horror when after practicing the skill diligently for years this cognitive load never reduced beyond 2x ~ 3x that of your native language.
If you use AI to help your writing

1) Let people know that you did that

2) Try to include a link to another page, which shows the prompt and your original version of the writing, even if it is in your native language

This will help people understand what you wanted to say.

Edit: The fact that you used AI to write your post, when your post is saying that you can’t trust AI to do a good job, is… super ironic lol :)

At the very least not providing a disclaimer is disrespectful to your readers.
sorry, i will include a disclaimer in the future
How is it fake if i can read and understand it?
Yep. A significant portion of the tech industry is rapidly becoming conservative. Maybe even reactionary in some ways. Its so weird to witness.

Meanwhile, those who continue to read unprejudiced but with applied critical thinking skills will at least remain in tandem with the red queen.

True, correlated with the ubiquitous push toward using LLMs everywhere and papering over their faults, hoping that people will ignore the fact that they are ceding more and more control of their lives and freedom to the hyperrich.
> A significant portion of the tech industry is rapidly becoming conservative.

I think it has less to do with being more conservative and more to do with not losing one of the few remaining ways to see the personality of other tech people.