Comment by dekhn

I ended up discussing it with the moderators and they interpret "transcribe and formatting" as contributing enough that they want to "educate" the user to not do that.

In my mind, using an LLM to lightly format a legitimate questions falls below any threshold I'd apply to AI-written writing. I often dictate HN messages to my phone, and in my case, personally edit the message (tediously), but if there was a tool that produced text that looked lightly LLM, I wouldn't care about it at all.

It's not a big deal because in five years, the idea of chiding a user for using an LLM to enhance their text is going to be considered ridiculous. I've lived through enough computer revolutions to know this; once, I didn't get a job (in ~1989) because I could type 80wpm but made a bunch of errors... on a typewriter! The agency told me they needed people who could type 80wpm on a typewriter.