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xelaboitoday at 8:43 AM2 repliesview on HN

You either have a writing style that is uncannily similar to what an LLM generates, or this article was substantially written by an LLM. I don't know what it is about the style, but I just find it a bit exhausting, like an overfit on "engaging writing" that strips away sincerity.


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nonameiguesstoday at 10:48 AM

Name sounds very likely not an English speaker. And the one reply here to a top-level comment is extremely obvious. I think it's unfortunate that people who write English poorly feel the need to do it, but I get it at least. The person behind this probably has a real interest and knowledge in the space but feels they can't communicate it without assistance.

It is too bad, though. People bad at English will themselves be reading this forever now and think this is the way real people write, speak, or are supposed to.

It's many things. The relentless ethusiasm about everything. Prefacing any answer to a question with an affirmation that it was a good question first. And yes, sorry, pedants of the web who feel witch-hunted because you knew how to employ keyboard shortcuts and used em-dashes in 2015 and have the receipts to prove it -- you never used 17 in the span of a single page. I think that was the first I can remember using ever and I had to contrive a way to do it where a semi-colon wouldn't clearly work better.

renewiltordtoday at 9:24 AM

It’s clearly LLM written but the idea was interesting enough that I read it. I suspect based on username the writer is cleaning up their voice.

I think the idea of sharing the raw prompt traces is good. Then I can feed that to an LLM and get the original information prior to expansion.