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by marzukia 17 days ago
Ahhh yeah, I’m not going to sit here and say I don’t use Claude to clean up my writing (ie make it actually coherently laid out). In all honestly I tend to write in a rambling stream of consciousness style across random scrap markdown files (ha), but point is taken.
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> In all honestly I tend to write in a rambling stream of consciousness style

At this point that'd be a welcome respite from every single blog post being written in the same exact AI tone.

I don't mind reading stream of consciousness, thats how I think anyway. Not everything you write has to be tight and polished, it just has to have value to the reader one way or the other.

Try using claude to suggest structural improvements, but take the time to implement those yourself. Don't use claude to make the changes directly. You'll find that what you want to say changes when you have to write it out.

I was thinking to myself as I was reading the post that here we go again - it's like how much can a man take. It's not that it's unclear... because it is easy to read. I also long for regular old human writing, warts and all.