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ylohlast Sunday at 4:33 PM2 repliesview on HN

If something is not worth writing, it is not worth reading.


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teknelast Sunday at 4:47 PM

On one hand, yes: expanding bullet points to slop makes things strictly worse.

On the other hand, if one uses AI but keeps content density constant (e.g. grammar fixes for non-native speakers) or even negative (compress this repetitive paragraph), I think it can be a useful net productivity boost.

Current AI can't really add information, but a lot of editing is subtracting, and as long as you check the output for hallucinations (and prompt-engineer a lot since models like to add) imo LLMs can be a subtraction-force-multiplier.

Ironically: anti-slop; or perhaps, fighting slop with slop.

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naaskinglast Sunday at 6:12 PM

Well that's a completely wrong take.