Comment by memjay
4 hours ago
Reading this hurt so much. Please just write articles by hand. I don’t care about perfect grammar and I don’t care about your article sounding „native“ or not.
But I do care about not having to read the word „genuinely“ a hundred times just because Claude likes it so much.
I just used the modern method for articles like that.
I read the headlines, skimmed the prose that has no purpose other than 'it was what the AI put out', then read the conclusion.
Similarly, I skip video content where the title is something like "How to get better fuel economy for your car" and the video starts "Let's investigate the entire history of wheels", and the whole video could just be a guy sat in a chair saying "keep your tyres at the correct pressure"
I'd summarize the concept as, this youtube video could have been a tweet
You are right, it feels like clickbait for blog posts / articles.
And once you notice the bait (via telltale signs) you feel betrayed. Betrayed for your attention, thoughts and time.
But OP (or LLM) is sort of funny :)
> Now a beginner's tutorial opens with sixteen tools you've never heard of, half of them named after Japanese words for "fast," and the first command downloads more code than the Apollo guidance computer ran on, just to render a contact form.
After finishing the post, yes OP was funny, at the beginning only unfortunately. The rest of text is so LLMish that it hurts.
The beginning was promising…
I'm having a similar reaction, and I wonder if because this style, tone, and tics are what I'm encountering while using AI tools, I instantly get a bad taste in my mouth when I see it in the context of something that's supposed to be written by a person. Like I reflexively discount it the moment I see its staccato little stylish flourishes and the same handful of "scar tissue" type analogies it seems to like to trot out again and again.
I don't think only their writing is AI, I suspect the site as well. With modern frontend GenAI renditions it is more common for me to find sites that stutter during scroll, as this site does.
Not a suspect, it's a certainty.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/the-ai-des...
Oh. I assumed an article that references hand-writing things would be hand written. Silly me :(
This reads like the transcript of an AI YouTube video that is trying to make it to 8 minutes for an ad roll.
THIS THIS THIS THIS AND THIS.
I was GENUINELY (ha, see what I did there?) interested and started reading, only to immediately understand that no human sweat was spent in writing what I was reading.
The result is that within 2 minutes I went from "fantastic, just what I needed" to "fuck, no way I'm spending my time reading this, considering it's probably hallucinating parts that could not work as described". It doesn't matter if text is perfect, it's the "vibe of the vibe" that just puts me off. Plus, the design SCREAMS Claude Code.
So, to everyone who does or thinks of doing what the author of this text did, a pledge:
PLEASE, take time to implement your ideas. That's what gives them value. Nobody forces you to produce this slop nor to implement your ideas, even if you think it's the best in the world.
If you do, and you think that shortcutting like this equals being productive, you are sorely delusional. You are producing slop, and you are only contributing to noise. And if you do that in the hope that something produced this way might eventually take off in a game of large numbers, well you're just throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks. Some of it might stick. All of it will still be shit.