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Posted by pjerem 3 hours ago

Don't Paste the AI, please(dontpastetheai.com)
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isoprophlex 2 hours ago|
DontMakeWebsitesFullOfObviousAISlopThatComplainAboutUsingAITheIronyIsTooThickForMe.com
crossroadsguy 1 hour ago||
> It's a great drafting partner

This I have been doing a bit. I strictly asks it to never give me suggestions but raise questions, concerns, tell me if it feels if something can be better, style-wise or otherwise without giving me those options.

And a bit of other overall feedback requests.

And if the model adheres to this and doesn't jump the gun, it indeed works quite nice. But it often jumps the gun, forgets, doesn't give a f- about my instructions, or whatever. Maybe more robust local models will better.

su8898 3 hours ago||
Ironically, almost all the content on that page sounds AI generated to me!
tmountain 2 hours ago||
Yup, I think the author needs to take their own advice and invest some time into putting it into their own words.
suyash 2 hours ago|||
Yup, that's the biggest joke, the website is not worth the weight.
TonyStr 1 hour ago||
Layout, colors, font and especially language all immediately scream AI. It's fascinating how many of these articles make it to the front page. I would think almost everyone here would be an expert at spotting AI generated slop by now, but people keep up-voting it.
erelong 2 hours ago||
Actually tbh AI outputs can be pretty good and I have been surprised to see a lack of copy / pastes of them in the format of:

Unique human prompt + AI output which is useful and does a good job expanding on the prompt topic and which when pasted saves people the time of having to go prompt AI on the same topic (fully reviewed by a person before sharing it, to ensure the content has relevance)

tontonius 2 hours ago||
just me or does this entire site/text read as 100% LLM generated? extremely ironic if so, they just pasted the AI.
Hugsbox 1 hour ago|
I got that impression too. Absolutely reeks of LLM. Really irritating.
skippah 2 hours ago||
same but shorter (already posted on hn): https://gruhn.me/blog/2026-08-03/

Dont be a meat proxy! simple

jiaosdjf 2 hours ago||
Sorry this website is too polite.

DO NOT FUCKING PASTE AI RESPONSES TO ME, EVER, PERIOD.

When someone tells me they "talked to Claude" they sound retarded. Just tell me you looked into it, and I fucking swear to god if you just took what Claude said verbatim and do not understand the problem then you are a cunt and I will stop working with you.

When someone pastes LLM output in chat I completely ignore it. I will just continue the conversation as if they said nothing and silently mark them as cretinous in my mind.

This is not up for debate, you will talk to me in short well formed sentences and get to the fucking point or you will fuck off

Hugsbox 1 hour ago|
I like this comment so much I checked out your profile. Turns out I just like the cut of your jib.
pammf 2 hours ago||
Agree that it isn’t nice to just copy & paste, but the assumption that your AI generated answers will the same of someone’s else is wrong. Everyone using AI for a while built a different set of preferences, memories and context in general which influence the answers.
Barbing 2 hours ago||
Or no memories or history.

Would be interesting if someone said “I spent $2.50 using llm-council with the three top SOTA models and think this reply makes sense: {paste}”

(But better “not sure, though after spending a few bucks on model APIs, perhaps {human-written analysis} is in the right direction”)

Also like you, I did think on the angry version “they have the same AI you do” isn’t likely to be right in the consumer space since their AI is ChatGPT (free version?!) and yours is Claude or something.

pammf 2 hours ago|||
Even with the same model results are different. I work in a startup where they went bonks with AI ~1 year ago. Every employee got a Claude account that I don’t even know what tier is (we just have what feels like unlimited tokens), they implemented infamous AI usage leaderboards, people were getting “you’re not using AI enough” feedback and all of that…

Over time, it was impressive to see how much the output of the same prompt would differ between us, and it seems to be heavily influenced by the role of the user. I.e. answers coming from the agent of a Data Engineer, a Backend Engineer and a Domain Researcher would not be the same at all. Some of us use harnessing tools, some not, but regardless it we saw differences.

So, for example, when a backend engineer would send a question to a data engineer, there was *some* added value even when it was a lazy copy & paste.

user_7832 2 hours ago|||
You're giving too much credit to people. The folks who run an LLM council aren't the ones blindly copy pasting things.

There's responsible AI use (which I think you - and I, and many people here) do, and the "I don't care, I've outsourced my brain to OpenAI" type of people.

parasti 2 hours ago||
Similar thoughts here. My gut tells me "if I wanted AI responses I would just ask AI", but in truth LLMs are not like Google Search. LLMs are more like a slot machine where you put your prompt in and out comes a combination of insights that are personalized to the inputs.
robinei 2 hours ago||
The article says they could have asked an AI themselves, but that is missing that I may have an agentic context with exactly the right information to answer the question well, which they do not have. For example because I worked on something closely related. Such an agent output is very useful, and taking the time to rewrite that to a short personal answer is not always worth it.
Hugsbox 1 hour ago|
Your agentic context is still going to shit out 3 pages where a sentence would suffice. Use AI all you want, and then WRITE THE ANSWER IN YOUR OWN WORDS.
alchemism 40 minutes ago||
If I’m answering your question, and you are not directly paying me for being an information desk, you are definitely getting the AI reply.
block_dagger 2 hours ago|
The premise of the article is that everyone has access to the “same tools” but that’s glossing over the specialization inherent in a specific expert’s harness config (memories, skills, rules, repos, etc) that produce actually helpful responses (eg engineer’s view vs product manager’s view).
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