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I really love AI for lots of things, but, when I'm reading a post, the AI aesthetic has started to grate. I read articles and they all have the same "LLM" aesth

by stavros 10mo ago

I really love AI for lots of things, but, when I'm reading a post, the AI aesthetic has started to grate. I read articles and they all have the same "LLM" aesthetic, and I feel like I'm reading posts written by the same person. Sure, the information is all there, but the style just puts me off reading it. I really don't like how few authors have a voice any more, even if that voice is full of typos and grammatical errors.

HNisCIS 10mo ago
My brain kinda shuts off when I read this stuff because I know it's more of a "text shaped object" than actual text. I find LLM text to be too fluffy and information sparse much of the time so I subconsciously start skimming it more than actually reading it.
- SilenN 10mo ago
  Outside of the story at the start I intentionally tried to make it information dense. Would appreciate feedback!
  - HNisCIS 10mo ago
    The story itself is fine it's more the trained response to LLM voice that causes problems
richardfulop 10mo ago
what's crazy to me is that it's literally a sentence in your prompt to make it change the style, but i guess some people are not bothered by it
- SilenN 10mo ago
  Would appreciate feedback, see my comment above!
SilenN 10mo ago
What sections where you most off put by? I used Claude to expand on my ideas for a few of the purely informational things, and for formatting, but this article is largely written by hand. For example "Interface tests are the ability to know what's wrong and explaining it." is in hindsight a confusing sentence. Many such cases.
- stavros 10mo ago
  It's things like this "super impactful!!!" style it has: > Enter Claude Code 2.0. > The UX had evolved. The harness is more flexible and robust. Bugs are fixed. But that's all secondary. It's OK for emphasis on some things, but when you see it on every blog, it's a bit much. Plus, I dislike that everything is lists with LLMs, it's another thing that you just start seeing everywhere.
  - SilenN 10mo ago
    That section doesn't include a lick of AI writing. One tell (maybe?) is that I switch from past tense to present tense mid sentence. Either a) I sound like an LLM when I'm writing articles (possible) or b) turing test AGI something something. Lists point is fair, I did use Claude for formatting. Where did it off put you here?
    - stavros 10mo ago
      There isn't a specific place, it's the general aesthetic. Maybe you do sound like an LLM :P I guess it's not unlikely to pick up some mannerisms from them when everyone is using them. I guess I don't really mind the use of an LLM or not, it's more the style that sounds very samey with everything else. Whether it's an LLM or not is not very relevant, I guess.
      - SilenN 10mo ago
        Good point. I'll consciously be trying to write more "out of distribution" now.
    - 10mo ago

by stavros 10mo ago

HNisCIS 10mo ago

My brain kinda shuts off when I read this stuff because I know it's more of a "text shaped object" than actual text. I find LLM text to be too fluffy and information sparse much of the time so I subconsciously start skimming it more than actually reading it.

SilenN 10mo ago
Outside of the story at the start I intentionally tried to make it information dense. Would appreciate feedback!
- HNisCIS 10mo ago
  The story itself is fine it's more the trained response to LLM voice that causes problems

richardfulop 10mo ago

what's crazy to me is that it's literally a sentence in your prompt to make it change the style, but i guess some people are not bothered by it

SilenN 10mo ago
Would appreciate feedback, see my comment above!

SilenN 10mo ago

What sections where you most off put by? I used Claude to expand on my ideas for a few of the purely informational things, and for formatting, but this article is largely written by hand. For example "Interface tests are the ability to know what's wrong and explaining it." is in hindsight a confusing sentence. Many such cases.

stavros 10mo ago
It's things like this "super impactful!!!" style it has: > Enter Claude Code 2.0. > The UX had evolved. The harness is more flexible and robust. Bugs are fixed. But that's all secondary. It's OK for emphasis on some things, but when you see it on every blog, it's a bit much. Plus, I dislike that everything is lists with LLMs, it's another thing that you just start seeing everywhere.
- SilenN 10mo ago
  That section doesn't include a lick of AI writing. One tell (maybe?) is that I switch from past tense to present tense mid sentence. Either a) I sound like an LLM when I'm writing articles (possible) or b) turing test AGI something something. Lists point is fair, I did use Claude for formatting. Where did it off put you here?
  - stavros 10mo ago
    There isn't a specific place, it's the general aesthetic. Maybe you do sound like an LLM :P I guess it's not unlikely to pick up some mannerisms from them when everyone is using them. I guess I don't really mind the use of an LLM or not, it's more the style that sounds very samey with everything else. Whether it's an LLM or not is not very relevant, I guess.
    - SilenN 10mo ago
      Good point. I'll consciously be trying to write more "out of distribution" now.
  - 10mo ago