Comment by larodi
19 hours ago
https://randsinrepose.com/guides/usb/usb-guide.html
this is 100% Claude-generated,and without citations I'd be very careful at trusting it. wonder why whoever prompted this in existence would not include actual references and sources of information.
disclaimer: me -> everyday CC user, so trust me, this thing loves to spit nonsense.
https://randsinrepose.com/guides/usb/sources.html — every single fact is sourced.
Written by Claude, too. (well, "Grumbles", as the footnote says)
I don't particularly care if it's right or not but this is ...weird. Especially from Rands.
I can't parse what the idea is here, like, what's being communicated and why. The "minimal writing" version says too little, the "throw everything and the kitchen sink version" says too much. And enough of both is slop (meaning, unneeded) that it's hard to orient yourself and find a guidepost, if there is one.
And I love using AI, and my reading comprehension scores have never been below 99.9%. Idk why I'm even sharing that. It's just, it's not me, it's not some battle I'm fighting, it really is a real problem, not just "oh it's Claude", it's bad writing in an alien way from an author I've always loved.
EDIT: After my 11th minute and 4th read on this, it has become clear to me that the idea is, you don't want to use the cable that comes with your iPhone for general USB data transmission because it is slow. The noise in the short version is USB IF, 5gbps, MacBook Neo.
Yeah the language is bizarre and clearly artificial. It was made by an openclaw agent almost certainly. It took me a long time to understand their point amongst points.
> my reading comprehension scores have never been below 99.9%. Idk why I'm even sharing that.
The Twitter link that's on the footer of your website is wrong Mr. 0.1 percentile.
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Yes I gave up reading half way and came here for the discussion because the style of writing was so bad and it doesn’t really seem to have a point to make.
Not sure what value someone generating slop like this thinks they are adding but I think it’ll become a strong social stigma to generate articles and people will later be very embarrassed by all this slop.
USB-C is in fact completely fine in normal use, and cheap cables are about the only problem with it.