[fao_]

This article has the bones of something interesting, but the style is too barren and the content really needs to be fleshed out more. I feel like if a human had written it, they would have thought of more to write. Like a human wouldn't be content with two paragraph section about K&R C without actually writing about difficulties encountered with this, parts that were interesting to implement and parts that weren't, et cetera. A human would look at that and go "ok but, what is the point to this, what makes this interesting?"

It is not enough to simply say you have done something interesting (which is all that this blog post amounts to), we as humans want to know the story of it, it's that that makes it interesting. You can't get that story if you're just vibecoding it, much like how the one person involved in Wolfram Alpha spent a lot of tokens on an LLM that constructed alternative forms of logic, and came away from it thinking that it was worthless, the entire time wasted, because there was absolutely no way for a human to interact with it, those logics had no story or analogies or anything for a human to latch on to.

[jdsnape]

I agree, another example is the line ‘lots of things had to be done by hand’. I think a more human narrative would be describing the discovery that thing X that we take for granted was missing and tell the story of figuring it out.

Giving them the benefit of the doubt though, perhaps they were aiming for brevity.

[glimshe]

I respect your tastes but, as a human, I like the objectivity in the article. I actually couldn't care less about the backstory and I tend to skip articles that wander around without getting to the point. I prefer to read a book when I want that.

In other words, different people sometimes want different things...

[fao_]

Ok, but brevity is the soul of wit. That's part of my point, this is a long form article with no content. If a human had written it, it would simply have been two to four paragraphs instead! "I made a thing, and it was cool the api stayed the same" rather than this really long winded article saying nothing at all.