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Reader of technical blogs here. What makes me turn away? Blog entries that are too verbose, or seem unpolished or chatty. Anything obviously AI generated - tha
by bediger4000 2y ago
Reader of technical blogs here.
What makes me turn away? Blog entries that are too verbose, or seem unpolished or chatty. Anything obviously AI generated - that too wordy, 5-paragraph middle school essay type of thing. I'm beginning to just turn away if I think a blog entry is AI generated at all, because there's always something wrong in the technical part if it's AI generated. An AI-generated image at the top, complete with weird misspellings or dripping kind-of-corporate logos is also a marker.
What makes me come back? Tight, informative prose. Diagrams that make difficult to understand text more understandable. Some non-standard, non-hackneyed humor. Treating a topic in a new way. References to related work, both other blogs, or academic PDFs. Code samples, with a description, like those in "Programming Pearls".
In a more abstract vein, posts that talk about "generating business value", or are filled with corporate verbiage are a turn off. I'm interested in what we, as sentient beings in this universe can figure out. Extremely technical topics are interesting, even if writing corporate code that way would be a disaster.