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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing > The bug gets fixed. Your mental model

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing > The bug gets fixed. Your mental model doesn’t move. > The symptom vanishes. You ship. > The tool didn’t determine the outcome. The posture did. Here's a free prompt if you can't come up with one that avoids this awfulness yourself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100213 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100213

Wowfunhappy 5mo ago
> Even as someone who uses a lot of AI, if you can't be bothered to at least give it a prompt like "Go through the documentation and comments in detail and remove any obvious AI shibboleths like emdashes, it's not x it's y, rule-of-three, 'delve', excessive grandiosity and flourishes, boldness, bullet points, etc", you should receive a brisk kick in the rear. ...is it that easy? I mean, wouldn't the AI providers just include this in their system prompts and/or harness?
- jaggederest 5mo ago
  I get good results doing that, but it's all about being the human who has the taste and making a tasteful result. change the prompt, try again, change the temperature, whatever it takes.
- ThrowawayR2 5mo ago
  It's better that they keep those verbal tics to make low effort AI generated output identifiable. Those that care will put in the effort to clean it up for their purposes.
  - Wowfunhappy 5mo ago
    From a societal perspective, I agree (and admittedly, maybe I shouldn’t be giving them ideas). But from a product perspective, this doesn’t seem optimal.
stavros 5mo ago
Or use software that only lets the AI critique/give you feedback, but not write for you.
whattheheckheck 5mo ago
Are those sentences untrue?
- jaggederest 5mo ago
  No, but the construction is painful and repetitive. My issue is the stodgy, repetitive, flavorless prose, not the content per se. The actual content could probably be compressed down into one or two paragraphs - "give me the prompt". Hemingway, not advertorial.
fragmede 5mo ago
Here's a Claude code skill for that https://github.com/blader/humanizer https://github.com/blader/humanizer

Wowfunhappy 5mo ago

> Even as someone who uses a lot of AI, if you can't be bothered to at least give it a prompt like "Go through the documentation and comments in detail and remove any obvious AI shibboleths like emdashes, it's not x it's y, rule-of-three, 'delve', excessive grandiosity and flourishes, boldness, bullet points, etc", you should receive a brisk kick in the rear. ...is it that easy? I mean, wouldn't the AI providers just include this in their system prompts and/or harness?

jaggederest 5mo ago
I get good results doing that, but it's all about being the human who has the taste and making a tasteful result. change the prompt, try again, change the temperature, whatever it takes.
ThrowawayR2 5mo ago
It's better that they keep those verbal tics to make low effort AI generated output identifiable. Those that care will put in the effort to clean it up for their purposes.
- Wowfunhappy 5mo ago
  From a societal perspective, I agree (and admittedly, maybe I shouldn’t be giving them ideas). But from a product perspective, this doesn’t seem optimal.

stavros 5mo ago

Or use software that only lets the AI critique/give you feedback, but not write for you.

whattheheckheck 5mo ago

Are those sentences untrue?

jaggederest 5mo ago
No, but the construction is painful and repetitive. My issue is the stodgy, repetitive, flavorless prose, not the content per se. The actual content could probably be compressed down into one or two paragraphs - "give me the prompt". Hemingway, not advertorial.

fragmede 5mo ago

Here's a Claude code skill for that https://github.com/blader/humanizer https://github.com/blader/humanizer