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by firef1y1203 39 days ago
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
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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