alt Hacker NewsThat was an informative post but Jesus Christ on a bicycle, reign in the LLM a bit. The whole thing was borderline painful to read, with so many "GPTisms" I almost bailed out a couple of times. If you're gonna use this stuff to write for you, at least *try* to make it match a style of your own.
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To add a tip on how to make it match your own style: You can get decently far by pointing it to a page or so of your own writing, and simply tell it to review the post section by section and edit it to match the tone and style of the example. It's not perfect by any means, but it will tend to edit out the type of language you're not likely to use, so really to make it sound less LLM-like, almost any writing sample from a human author works.
100% agreed. Maybe this inner reaction will disappear over the years of being exposed to the GPT writing style, or maybe LLMs will be "smarter" on this regard, and being able to use different styles even by default. But I had the same exact feelings as you reading this piece.
I stopped at "pgit handled it.". The tldr was appreciated though as now I don't have to sieve though the LLM bloat.
I did bail out because of this, despite being pretty interested in the content. I love reading, but I cannot stand LLM “writing” output, and few things are important enough for me to force myself through the misery of ingesting ChatGPT “prose.” I only made it to the second section of this one.