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> and done a high-level pass on the rest. Why would I read your book if you have not read your book? Edit: I now understand what is going on here. This is an
by Permit 7mo ago
> and done a high-level pass on the rest.
Why would I read your book if you have not read your book?
Edit: I now understand what is going on here. This is an attempt to promote Zenflow. The GitHub account (https://github.com/amoilanen/ https://github.com/amoilanen/) is Anton Moilanen who is an employee at Zencoder, the creators of Zenflow.
The account (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jsontwikkeling https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jsontwikkeling) was created 86 days ago the same day as this Show HN post was created: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46290617 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46290617
It would probably be worth the moderator's time to see if this post was part of a coordinated upvote ring as well.
- jsontwikkeling 7mo agoIt is your choice. I have read a good part of the book, also wrote a part of it and am in the process of finishing the review. The more reviews - the better. The book is officially in beta and this is fully transparent
- bananamogul 7mo agowhat kind of author releases about a book they themselves have not read? Could you possibly care less about your readers and your own work?
- bombcar 7mo agoAt least he's honest about it, the vast majority of AI people would just submit it as their own work having never read it at all.
- Permit 7mo agoHe's being dishonest. He's attempting to promote Zenflow (a tool created by his employer Zencoder). He's produced AI slop (that he has not even read!) as a vehicle to promote Zenflow and get it in front of eyeballs on HackerNews.
- jsontwikkeling 7mo agoI am just referencing the tools I used (also Claude Code, by the way) because the bulk of the work was done by them. This is what I was taught: work should be attributed correctly. If I would not mention the tools it would seem if the book was written entirely by me which is not the case. This is a book which was started by me, I did use the AI tools I normally use in my daily routine on my personal projects. They are secondary in this post though. I posted in my personal capacity and my employer is not aware or connected to this - the book is entirely mine. It is not AI slop. A large part of its content was written originally by me 10 years ago. But if it has offended anyone and I should not had posted the work which I have not fully yet reviewed myself, then sorry
- sumeno 7mo agoHow would you know whether or not it is AI slop, you haven't reviewed it
- jsontwikkeling 7mo agoSorry, definitely my mistake for sharing too early.
- jsontwikkeling 7mo agoThe main goal of posting early was to gather feedback and peer review as soon as possible. I hope it can become a collaborative effort with external contributions. The book is still a work in progress, and I have tried to be transparent about that. If you have specific concerns about the quality or suggestions for improvement, I would genuinely appreciate hearing them.
- sumeno 7mo agoYou shouldn't ask other people for feedback before you have done the bare minimum of reading your "own" book
- jsontwikkeling 7mo agoClear, sorry, my mistake. I just was excited to share and hoped it can be useful. Though I genuinely wrote a substantial part of the book myself. I will finish the review on Github in the coming days/weeks and will hopefully get some collaborators there
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- vova_hn2 7mo agoJust ask an LLM summarize it for you, lol What was the point of first asking an LLM to expand prompt/"specs" into a book and then asking it to compress it back to a summary? Well, I'm glad you asked! To promote this Z*n tool, of course.
- jsontwikkeling 7mo agoIt was not the goal and I was posting in my personal capacity. I just used it together with Claude Code on my personal project. Because I work with it regularly it is natural that I used it. I wanted to mention the tools I used including Claude Code. I hope it does not seem that I am here to promote Anthropic tools as well? I just thought it appropriate to mention for the correct attribution, because the heavy lifting was done by the tools, not by me
- jsontwikkeling 7mo agoThe goal was to share the book which I finished and ask for review and feedback. Feedback is clear, I should never had posted and will probably not post in the future. Hopefully the book will be useful for those who find it, I will get feedback elsewhere and will finish reviewing it myself
- jsontwikkeling 7mo agoAs you can see I was never hiding and my identity can be viewed and verified quite openly I just mentioned the tools I use normally and it is my personal project done on my personal time of which my employer is not aware. I might not mention the tools I used but they did the bulk of the work so I thought appropriate to mention. Promoting Zenflow or Claude Code was not my goal. They are mentioned purely for the attribution purposes