[jannyfer]

I see this post is from 2024. Maybe I would have enjoyed the hook and enjoyed reading along to figure out what this "harajuku moment" was back in 2024. But since being exposed to AI slop daily, and having to scan through so much verbose AI outputs during day-to-day "coding", I've now started skimming so much that I got annoyed that it meandered, then just couldn't bother reading the rest of the post after I've figured out what the harajuku moment is.

It's like my brain is responding to blog posts now in the same way that people scroll past tiktok videos in the first few seconds if there isn't enough of a dopamine hit.

I used to enjoy longform content... alas.

[floren]

Doesn't help that he's a self-help author so he's always written like an LLM, even before LLMs.

[Paracompact]

> I used to enjoy longform content... alas.

Not all longform is like this, thankfully.

I'm of the opinion that for all the bad things AI has done for us and our psychology, there is a silver lining in that it has reduced our tolerance for "slop" and time-wasting tactics in general.

"Brevity is the sister of talent," said Chekov, and it applies to more than just creative writing.