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> the genai content on the website is just so distracting and such a bummer That's harsh. Consider English might not be the author's first language (I see Chin
by thiht 1mo ago
> the genai content on the website is just so distracting and such a bummer
That's harsh. Consider English might not be the author's first language (I see Chinese on the screenshots). Just opening the site I get all the info I need from the text (local first, no account, no telemetry, that's great), install instructions are immediately visible, there are screenshots, even the config file format is one scroll away. This is a great landing page for an open source tool.
- walrus01 1mo agoAs LLM generated template web GUI go it's relatively inoffensive, at least it's easy to navigate and doesn't waste time with sliders, animated effects, etc. It's just a navbar across the top and then content. As far as the page body content goes it seems like LLMs have taken a little bit too enthusiastically to an Apple style presentation of product features.
- flexagoon 1mo ago> Consider English might not be the author's first language This is clearly LLM-written text, not something that the author asked an LLM to translate from a different language. Not sure how the author's first language is relevant.
- walrus01 1mo agoThe author may very well be working in Mandarin or something and asked it to create an english language explanation of the project. Then the LLM generated the text based on their request.
- flexagoon 1mo agoThey could've written text in Mandarin and used an LLM (or any other translation tool) to translate it to English, which wouldn't have introduced the LLM writing style. They didn't, so the reason isn't that English isn't their first language, it's that they didn't want to spend time writing text. In which case I don't understand how this is different from a native English speaker doing the same thing.
- kennyadam 1mo agoIt doesn't matter. The site is fine.
- walrus01 1mo agoOnly significant change I would make is have the top navbar not be transparent with body content underlaid beneath it, which makes things hard to read when the page is scrolled. And move some of the links at the very bottom of page like 'github' into the top navbar.
- asdfsa32 1mo agoEverything is fine for a standard low enough. This is the crux of the issue with LLM work, it is poor quality and shifts the burden of mental work to the consumer rather than the producer, while the producer attempts to extract credit for the work.
- thiht 1mo agoWho cares? Even if it’s LLM generated (which is not 100% sure, I’m pretty sure I could have written this description with bold keywords myself), the text is dense and easy to read. Rejecting LLM output without even thinking about the content doesn’t make any sense.
- bbg2401 1mo agoYou are replying to a comment which stated: > the genai content on the website is just so distracting and such a bummer. It sticks out like sore thumb. The comment is fair and accurate. The vacuous marketing speak is tedious, unpleasant and risks undermining the technology it makes a flailing attempt to describe. Your non-native English speaker excuse is neither fair nor accurate since an AI translation of a human-written Mandarin language text does not introduce the style of writing being criticised. Not every open source project requires a grandiose marketing site littered with manipulative, cloying language. Let the project speak for itself.
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- juggle-anyhow 1mo agoSo what? It has the information. It's free.
- eklavya 1mo agoThat would imply that the complainer has nothing useful to add to the discussion, whereas just saying that the website is probably ai generated and off putting to them is valuable info about the project.
- breezybottom 1mo agoThat's a distinction without a difference. Either way it produces the same slop.
- pager-anytime-a 1mo agoPeople really are so quick to point out LLM usage as some form of virtue-signalling. It's fairly obvious that an LLM has been used to design the site, but it does the job and the site isn't the focus of the product.
- xinayder 1mo agoIt's not virtue signalling but it shows that if the author of said software (if there's one) didn't bother to spend time writing things on the website, there's a correlation that they wouldn't bother spending time writing code either. And that's what I see first thing on the repo. Lots of LLM-style writing in the README, which makes me think if this is a vibecoded app, which looks like it.
- juggle-anyhow 1mo agoYou better get over it because all software will be vibe coded in future.
- fnordlord 1mo agoI don’t think that’s necessarily true. The author might just dislike (or lack experience) in dealing with frontend. Especially if it’s free or open source. It’s generous to even pay for a domain, right?
- halsafar 1mo agoSoft eng for 20+ years. Happy have LLM code for me. I won't let them speak for me though. I think people who let AI speak for them in places other humans read probably couldn't speak for themselves pre-LLM. It's sad.
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- dionian 1mo agoYes its AI slop-esque but tbh i really love the UI of this website. It looks great.
- isgb 1mo agoNot sure what linguistic/cultural differences require making the website annoying slop.
- bayindirh 1mo agoI'll kindly disagree with you. Trying one's best and then running it through a proofreader is a viable option for the author as well. It allows the author to keep their voice while polishing their writing as well. For me, the "finally local" call is disturbing, hinting that there are no other alternatives, ever. For Linux GP noted that there's Solaar, which supports all the features of this tool. I also use Solaar without any problems on my Linux systems. Also notably, fwupdmgr provides updates for Logitech hardware natively, so there's nothing "finally local" about it. It's a new, polished tool written in Rust for more platforms, and kudos to them. However this doesn't vindicate their use of LLM for the site text. See, English is not my first language either, however one can sharpen it with by using it.
- rsstack 1mo ago> Consider English might not be the author's first language https://openlogi.org/zh https://openlogi.org/zh The Chinese version of the website through Google Translate shows the same LLMisms, so while I don't know which version was authored first but neither was human-authored regardless of language proficiency.
- thesuitonym 1mo agoConsider that the author may be a sentient bullfrog. It's irrelevant, because the LLM generated content is still a bummer.