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"Same developer, same store, twelve years apart." "Local brand, rebadged hardware, ethernet port on the back, internet features in the menu" "Keeping the down
by mdrzn 2mo ago
"Same developer, same store, twelve years apart."
"Local brand, rebadged hardware, ethernet port on the back, internet features in the menu"
"Keeping the download tiny was a decision, not a side effect."
God I hate the AI slop that I can instantly call out. If you MUST have your blog written by AI, please please please please implement a skill or something that does a second pass using this https://tropes.fyi/tropes-md https://tropes.fyi/tropes-md so at least we remove all the USUAL tells. I cannot stand to read articles like this any longer.
- boban-lukic 2mo agoFair, AI was in the loop. I'm not a native English speaker. I laid out what happened and in what order, and AI turned it into readable English. Nothing in it is hallucinated: every number comes from the raw Play Console exports at the bottom of the page. Without the tool people correct my grammar, with it they correct my style. Point taken though, I'll run the next one through your list. And yes, this reply went through AI too.
- Terretta 2mo agoBoth are particularly badly written. Story ok. Post and reply vocab tells, fingernails on chalkboard. Broken ESL is genuinely preferable here. Try to not get more upset when readers coach you than when the LLM rewrites you. Both happen, both are fine.
- c0l0 2mo agoFtr, I think you are being needlessly harsh. I enjoyed reading OP's story.
- andai 2mo agoI think HN somehow automatically bans AI comments, so you should probably use Google Translate or something instead. (I know it uses similar tech but it doesn't have the same cringe writing style for some reason.) Edit: Personally I also strongly prefer reading broken English over LLM writing.
- p0w3n3d 2mo agoThe Broken English write to you we will (wink)
- wasabi991011 2mo agoYou can write in your native language and have an llm translate it, or you could write it in English to the best of your abilities and use an LLM to fix grammar mistakes. Both these options are better than llm slop style.
- p0w3n3d 2mo agoIt's quite funny that (I am neither an English native speaker) I cannot tell anything bad and all your writing sounds great to me, but English natives see the AI in an obvious manner.