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This is a weird article. The first half is somewhat interesting but can be summarized entirely by its last paragraph: > I’m fairly sure a meaningful percentag
by Arainach 2mo ago
This is a weird article. The first half is somewhat interesting but can be summarized entirely by its last paragraph:
> I’m fairly sure a meaningful percentage of my system prompt is now actively making things worse—instructions written for a model that no longer exists, aggressively steering a smarter one away from things it would have gotten right on its own. But I can’t tell which lines those are,
Then the article says "This is the part where I stop joking." and goes utterly off the deep end, and I am not getting the joke.
- dgellow 2mo agoPretty sure it’s generated by an LLM, I don’t think the author could explain what the second part of the article is supposed to mean Edit: actually the whole site is AI slop
- tacoooooooo 2mo agoits literally not. so fucking frustrating to put effort into writing these days and have it called llm slop
- groby_b 2mo agoIf your writing gets called "slop", you might want to look at why. It's usually and indication it's considered low quality writing, and... you can fix that. (Unless you use AI, then you're doomed ;)
- tacoooooooo 2mo agoCalling my writing slop is one thing. Attributing it all to AI is another. Half my posts pre-date chatgpt. i've been writing like shit forever--its very human of me actually
- Arainach 2mo agoOn the contrary, I find that higher quality writing - the kind by authors who know how and when to use the emdash and semicolon, for instance - gets flagged as "slop" more. the only reliable way to not get flagged is 2 type like ur 12 and just discovered twitter and don't have a shift key and use run ons a lot which is doubleplusungood writing.
- dgellow 2mo agoHave you tried to not add AI generated image across your articles? That would definitely help reduce the AI slop feeling
- tacoooooooo 2mo agofair i guess. images are basically required if you want people to read your posts, and im not an artist, but fair i guess calling my whole site AI slop is a bit rude but mostly just wrong. I have put in a lot of work to my posts and my projects. and, > "I don’t think the author could explain what the second part of the article is supposed to mean" ??? its a bit. half the post is a bit. im leaning into it. _The weights were revealed inside a harness_ is literally glowing. wdym i cant explain any of it
- cindyllm 2mo ago[dead]
- dwaltrip 2mo agoDid you not use Claude to help write it? It's not standard slop, that is clear. But I saw a bunch of smoking-gun-claudisms in the post. Overall I did like it, I will say :)
- pton_xd 2mo agoSlop article, needs to be flagged.
- tacoooooooo 2mo agoThe whole thing is a bit tongue in cheek. I don't have an actual moral opposition to custom system instructions...
- fmbb 2mo agoThanks for sharing. It was a fun read, and relatable.