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by pydry 19 days ago
Or rather because they are always just of poor quality
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If you had a time machine and you could republish a claude generated article about some interesting tech topic to 2010 I'm sure it would get ok engagement.

To me the issue is that everything becomes written in the same style pattern. I don't know why but if I spot it I wince internally and immediately skim the post or just outright stop reading. A large part of it is overexposure. For me it's made browsing the internet quite uncomfortable since it's unavoidable.

I mainly spend my online time in group chats these days.

> ok engagement

That is such a miserably low bar

Define “quality”

(I’m pretty sure both you and I would “know it when we see it”, but…)

There was an entire book about that 50 years ago, and last month someone brought that thinking and analysis to the LLM-bot issue:

EDIT: this is the one I was thinking of...

https://sinclairtarget.com/blog/2026/06/01/quality-in-the-ag...

But this is relevant too...

https://bersas.substack.com/p/zen-and-the-dance-of-generativ...