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handfuloflight • today at 12:33 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

As for me, I've copied and pasted the text into Claude, prompted: "Distill key insights" and got everything I needed to know.

Link: https://claude.ai/share/6cf78509-e283-49cc-89b1-c892bfce0641

In fact... I read most of HN like this nowadays, including the comments.


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dofm • today at 12:58 AM

This is really not better. Well… not much better.

I've spent my entire life reading, writing, condensing and explaining stuff, and I'm pretty good at it, but I find reading this stuff intensely tiring.

But my underlying concern remains. Why are people who want to communicate important ideas leaving it to Claude — which writes like an obscurantist gnome wizard from a bad fantasy novel — to do so, only to lead us to use LLMs to corral it into a less gnomic form?

People used to describe their own products in their own words.

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