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The README is unnerving. Do people really see the Claude-salesman style of writing as something normal? On the other hand, I should be thanking Anthropic for m

The README is unnerving. Do people really see the Claude-salesman style of writing as something normal? On the other hand, I should be thanking Anthropic for making it so easy to spot, they might have done this intentionally.

ColinEberhardt 6mo ago
Agreed, I could just about bear it until I hit the “ Six load-bearing ideas” section. Very off-putting.
Strom 6mo ago
I found the At a glance section especially funny. Just a ton of buzzwords compressed together. One of the most dense tables I've ever seen on GitHub.
wismwasm 6mo ago
Yep I agree. I was looking for a getting started like for example here for openspec: https://github.com/Fission-AI/OpenSpec/blob/main/docs/getting-started.md https://github.com/Fission-AI/OpenSpec/blob/main/docs/gettin... but couldn't find anything like that
AstroBen 6mo ago
> That's not "AI tries to design something". That's an AI that has been trained, by the prompt stack, to behave like a senior designer with a working filesystem, a deterministic palette library, and a checklist culture What, you don't want your senior designer to have a working filesystem and checklist culture? No deterministic palettes?
- delusional 6mo ago
  > OD stands on four open-source shoulders: That's impressive, although I'd hesitate to call that "standing", it's more a crawl I'd say.
- ambicapter 6mo ago
  I hate when my palette library is probabilistic.
- tipiirai 6mo ago
  What is a deterministic palette, and why is it so important here?
jstummbillig 6mo ago
It's midness. People don't find it good, it's just less effort to meh it.
- ori_b 6mo ago
  It's bad, not mid. And it's insulting to the reader.
colechristensen 6mo ago
>Do people really see the Claude-salesman style of writing as something normal? In certain circles, yeah. It's bad powerpoint writing by ambitious but dull mid-level managers, memeified. There's a lot of it out there. If you were to distill that kind of copy into an AI model and then reproduce it with just a touch of uncanny valley, yup. 100% that's what it is.
Keyframe 6mo ago
This insufferable period of AI will eventually come to an end. We just have to power through as people get fed by it. Mindless writeups, social media posts, emails, cold calls.. they all bear common trait of no to low effort and it shows. It's as vapid and empty as the impulse that thought it would be a good idea. Some of us consciously go by the rule that if you haven't bothered to write, we're not going to bother to read.. rest will grow into the same mindset. Spam farms pretending to be sales optimizations, linkedin lunatics with "valuable messages", low effort slackers larping to be engineers.. it's all going to go away and true value will prevail. Right now, it's not too much different than nigerian prince letters, industrialized.
rossjudson 6mo ago
No thing-you-don't-want. No second-thing-you-don't want. Just thing-you-want, the-way-you-want-it.

ColinEberhardt 6mo ago

Agreed, I could just about bear it until I hit the “ Six load-bearing ideas” section. Very off-putting.

Strom 6mo ago

I found the At a glance section especially funny. Just a ton of buzzwords compressed together. One of the most dense tables I've ever seen on GitHub.

wismwasm 6mo ago

Yep I agree. I was looking for a getting started like for example here for openspec: https://github.com/Fission-AI/OpenSpec/blob/main/docs/getting-started.md https://github.com/Fission-AI/OpenSpec/blob/main/docs/gettin... but couldn't find anything like that

AstroBen 6mo ago

> That's not "AI tries to design something". That's an AI that has been trained, by the prompt stack, to behave like a senior designer with a working filesystem, a deterministic palette library, and a checklist culture What, you don't want your senior designer to have a working filesystem and checklist culture? No deterministic palettes?

delusional 6mo ago
> OD stands on four open-source shoulders: That's impressive, although I'd hesitate to call that "standing", it's more a crawl I'd say.
ambicapter 6mo ago
I hate when my palette library is probabilistic.
tipiirai 6mo ago
What is a deterministic palette, and why is it so important here?

jstummbillig 6mo ago

It's midness. People don't find it good, it's just less effort to meh it.

ori_b 6mo ago
It's bad, not mid. And it's insulting to the reader.

colechristensen 6mo ago

>Do people really see the Claude-salesman style of writing as something normal? In certain circles, yeah. It's bad powerpoint writing by ambitious but dull mid-level managers, memeified. There's a lot of it out there. If you were to distill that kind of copy into an AI model and then reproduce it with just a touch of uncanny valley, yup. 100% that's what it is.

Keyframe 6mo ago

This insufferable period of AI will eventually come to an end. We just have to power through as people get fed by it. Mindless writeups, social media posts, emails, cold calls.. they all bear common trait of no to low effort and it shows. It's as vapid and empty as the impulse that thought it would be a good idea. Some of us consciously go by the rule that if you haven't bothered to write, we're not going to bother to read.. rest will grow into the same mindset. Spam farms pretending to be sales optimizations, linkedin lunatics with "valuable messages", low effort slackers larping to be engineers.. it's all going to go away and true value will prevail. Right now, it's not too much different than nigerian prince letters, industrialized.

rossjudson 6mo ago

No thing-you-don't-want. No second-thing-you-don't want. Just thing-you-want, the-way-you-want-it.