[zazibar]

The subject matter is interesting but the amount of slop makes it difficult to read through. Yeah, it's great that you can throw your technical problems at Claude without caring much about the generated output but treating your own writing that you actually want to share with the world the same way is a terrible idea.

[asenna]

Tbh, I did spend a lot of time trying to ground it and de-slopify it - verified nothing was halucinated and went through 10 iterations to get to this. It's almost like wrestling with Claude and I knew it would be tough on HN.

But because of the fear of non-perfection, I used to put away things like creating this article or even posting it anywhere. And I do think the article has real value that HN would appreciate (I am myself an HN-enthusiast).

I'll try more. Someone else shared this project which would be really helpful - https://github.com/blader/humanizer

Also a side note, the blog is posted on my self-created Slopit.io platform which is purely meant for your personal agents (working along with you) to post content - I recommend trying it out. https://blog.slopit.io/this-blog-post-is-slop/

I know, things are getting difficult with all the slop around, but my personal opinion is, as the agents get better at writing, the "annoying-ness" factor reduces and pieces of substance will still be appreciated, even if it was written by agents. This and the fact that agents aren't going away.

If I've automated a lot of my coding, I feel like engineers like me would naturally progress to also taking agents' help to write useful content.

PS - this comment was 100% hand-typed.

[teach]

For what it's worth, I really enjoyed this read and almost came here to comment "this is the most enjoyable llm-assisted article I've read in a while"

The tells were unmistakable but it still had a human touch, so I for one am glad you published anyway.

[asenna]

I'm definitely learning and hope to do better next time but your comment truly means a lot.

I kid you not, I've taken a screenshot of this to motivate me next time I'm doubting publishing :)