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Just read the post and it didn’t sound AI to me. Would be kind of funny if someone from the team came out and said it was written by a human.

by drchiu 3mo ago

relativeadv 3mo ago
I didn't read the post and scrolled to a random clause. "Because you own the code. You've added variants, changed classes, threaded new props. A codemod handles the components you never touched and breaks on the ones you did."
- dbbk 3mo ago
  It's so staccato throughout, a human wouldn't write like this.
designerarvid 3mo ago
Maybe the human has been reading too much ai generated text and got influenced by it?
- robofanatic 3mo ago
  Exactly! We have accepted British English, American English, Australian English …. Lets just accept AI English and move on.
KronisLV 3mo ago
> Just read the post and it didn’t sound AI to me. Those short and punchy two-part sentence groups very much feel like the writing that Claude does, like: The writing feels familiar. Suspicion earns its keep. Ultimately, the judgement remains yours. Not conjecture, your thoughts. Then again, I bet how much aversion people feel to that sort of thing depends on how much they’ve been exposed to that, especially in frustrating circumstances. Personally, that’s a lot (daily Claude Code) and sometimes that writing makes me really upset. Or maybe people genuinely just write like that and overuse that style and Claude has ruined it for me, whereas otherwise I wouldn’t have given it a second look.
- mattmcknight 3mo ago
  People do write like that. Claude learned it from somewhere, after all. I read an X post yesterday where someone was complaining about "genuinely" as being an AI tell. I think the broader phenomenon with the AI tells is it is revealing about a person's consumption. If they already interacted with and read material that resembled AI output, it wouldn't seem as weird. But if you encounter a particular pattern with the AI before you encounter the human patterns that trained it that way, it seems like an AI quirk.
  - KronisLV 3mo ago
    > But if you encounter a particular pattern with the AI before you encounter the human patterns that trained it that way, it seems like an AI quirk. It might also be the overuse of specific phrases and patterns. I sometimes scan over my own blog posts to see what appears too often and there are things that I overuse in my own writing as well.
- jasonlotito 3mo ago
  It's not that it's bad writing. It's that people are used to bad writing. People are used to garbage. For example, your comment is awful from a literature or writing perspective. It needs to be edited. This comment that I'm writing right now is awful. We're used to crap writing and people who don't care about editing and putting out good, thoughtful words. When all you're used to is garbage, things that actually are better are generally going to seem odd and out of place. However, for those people that are used to better, more elegant writing, it's going to seem fine. Of course, the difference here is context. In a comment, you're not expecting well-written sentences, structure, and editing. So we jump at these things that seem out of place because of the context. > sometimes that writing makes me really upset. You know what makes me upset? - No writing - Or bad documentation - Or just no documentation - Or just nothing being written down about something For me, at its core, the most important thing is accuracy. Is it accurate? If so, good. We can start from there. If your issue is style, fine, but that's a personal judgment. As long as it's accurate, I'm fine.
  - 3mo ago
jacob_rezi 3mo ago
There's not a strong reason for a human to write this type of content anymore
- dawnerd 3mo ago
  Why should a human read it? And by extension why even bother than if it’s just for machines?
  - tzs 3mo ago
    Because the human wants the information contained within?
elxr 3mo ago
To me, it couldn't sound more AI if you tried.

Just read the post and it didn’t sound AI to me. Would be kind of funny if someone from the team came out and said it was written by a human.

by drchiu 3mo ago

Just read the post and it didn’t sound AI to me. Would be kind of funny if someone from the team came out and said it was written by a human.

relativeadv 3mo ago

I didn't read the post and scrolled to a random clause. "Because you own the code. You've added variants, changed classes, threaded new props. A codemod handles the components you never touched and breaks on the ones you did."

dbbk 3mo ago
It's so staccato throughout, a human wouldn't write like this.

designerarvid 3mo ago

Maybe the human has been reading too much ai generated text and got influenced by it?

robofanatic 3mo ago
Exactly! We have accepted British English, American English, Australian English …. Lets just accept AI English and move on.

KronisLV 3mo ago

> Just read the post and it didn’t sound AI to me. Those short and punchy two-part sentence groups very much feel like the writing that Claude does, like: The writing feels familiar. Suspicion earns its keep. Ultimately, the judgement remains yours. Not conjecture, your thoughts. Then again, I bet how much aversion people feel to that sort of thing depends on how much they’ve been exposed to that, especially in frustrating circumstances. Personally, that’s a lot (daily Claude Code) and sometimes that writing makes me really upset. Or maybe people genuinely just write like that and overuse that style and Claude has ruined it for me, whereas otherwise I wouldn’t have given it a second look.

mattmcknight 3mo ago
People do write like that. Claude learned it from somewhere, after all. I read an X post yesterday where someone was complaining about "genuinely" as being an AI tell. I think the broader phenomenon with the AI tells is it is revealing about a person's consumption. If they already interacted with and read material that resembled AI output, it wouldn't seem as weird. But if you encounter a particular pattern with the AI before you encounter the human patterns that trained it that way, it seems like an AI quirk.
- KronisLV 3mo ago
  > But if you encounter a particular pattern with the AI before you encounter the human patterns that trained it that way, it seems like an AI quirk. It might also be the overuse of specific phrases and patterns. I sometimes scan over my own blog posts to see what appears too often and there are things that I overuse in my own writing as well.
jasonlotito 3mo ago
It's not that it's bad writing. It's that people are used to bad writing. People are used to garbage. For example, your comment is awful from a literature or writing perspective. It needs to be edited. This comment that I'm writing right now is awful. We're used to crap writing and people who don't care about editing and putting out good, thoughtful words. When all you're used to is garbage, things that actually are better are generally going to seem odd and out of place. However, for those people that are used to better, more elegant writing, it's going to seem fine. Of course, the difference here is context. In a comment, you're not expecting well-written sentences, structure, and editing. So we jump at these things that seem out of place because of the context. > sometimes that writing makes me really upset. You know what makes me upset? - No writing - Or bad documentation - Or just no documentation - Or just nothing being written down about something For me, at its core, the most important thing is accuracy. Is it accurate? If so, good. We can start from there. If your issue is style, fine, but that's a personal judgment. As long as it's accurate, I'm fine.
- 3mo ago

jacob_rezi 3mo ago

There's not a strong reason for a human to write this type of content anymore

dawnerd 3mo ago
Why should a human read it? And by extension why even bother than if it’s just for machines?
- tzs 3mo ago
  Because the human wants the information contained within?

elxr 3mo ago

To me, it couldn't sound more AI if you tried.