Comment by maxbond
13 hours ago
So petty as to lie about using AI or so petty as to call it out? Calling it out doesn't seem petty to me.
I intend to learn Zig when it reaches 1.0 so I was interested in this book. Now that I see it was probably generated by someone who claimed otherwise, I suspect this book would have as much of a chance of hurting my understanding as helping it. So I'll skip it. Does that really sound petty?
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I understand being okay with a book being generated (some of the text I published in this manual [1] is generated), I can imagine not caring that the author lied about their use of AI, but I really don't understand the suggestion I write a book about a subject I just told you I'm clueless about. I feel like there's some kind of epistemic nihilism here that I can't fathom. Or maybe you meant it as a barb and it's not that deep? You tell me I guess.
[1] https://maxbondabe.github.io/attempt/intro.html
I would rather care whether there is a book at all and whether it is useful.
> I write a book about a subject I just told you I'm clueless about
Use AI. Even if you use AI, it's still a lot of work. Or write a book about why people shouldn't let AI write their books.
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