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Author here. I was expecting some negativity but for whatever reason this one bites more than I imagined. The effort here was earnest and I'm sorry it reads as
by alivetoad 10mo ago
Author here. I was expecting some negativity but for whatever reason this one bites more than I imagined. The effort here was earnest and I'm sorry it reads as slop to you. Appreciate the feedback.
- allisdust 10mo agoFor every negative comment, there are 100s of positive comments that never get made. I have spent close to 2 hours on your extremely info dense article and loved every bit of it. Looking forward for the next one.
- alivetoad 10mo agoAppreciate it! Have a couple ideas kicking around for my next write up, but taking a beat to evaluate what went well and all that jazz
- imtringued 10mo agoFor those in the know, the "MXU Cycle Timing" diagram is a thing of beauty.
- alivetoad 10mo agoLove to hear it. I struggled feeling like they looked amateurish, but so long as the ideas are communicated clearly I can live with it
- tomhow 10mo agoModerator here. How much was AI used to write/edit the post?
- alivetoad 10mo agoA good bit during the editing process. Pop into Claude code to examine where the tone drifted, where the argument lost coherence, etc.
- daveguy 10mo agoHey, original a-hole here. Just wanted to chime in (even though you probably don't want advice from me after that a-holery). I don't think LLMs are good for editing at all. They make things more wordy and obtuse. But editing is supposed to add clarity, especially in technical writing. Generally, the more you can remove while conveying the ideas the better. Honestly, I expect your original writing was better before using Claude. Sorry again for being so harsh in the first place.
- alivetoad 10mo agoReplying to both comments here You're all good in my book, don't sweat it. I really do welcome the feedback. I am just some yokel from the internet, the burden is on me to write ~well enough so that reading 10k words isn't an enormous waste of time. Definitely rusty, but a little less so after wrestling with this one. I'm still ironing out my process, but writing more is the only way to get that sorted.