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Posted by mooreds 17 hours ago

I don't want to read what you didn't write(blog.colinbreck.com)
863 points | 366 commentspage 4
figarus314 15 hours ago|
The other comments here were written by LLMs that have a hard time detecting meta-irony.
sleazebreeze 15 hours ago|
Apparently most readers have read too much AI output that they don’t recognize a bit of irony as a joke.
wiseowise 8 hours ago||
> Apparently most readers have read too much AI output

You’re giving them too much credit.

Reason077 13 hours ago||
The irony is that this article reads a lot like it was written by AI.
paritosh31 7 hours ago|
Yes, you can easily prompt this writing style.
mrheosuper 12 hours ago||
I'm kind of okay with reading something you don't write(entirely). But reading something that you even neither write nor read? waste of time.
bajnokk 8 hours ago||
I've always wanted to write this essay, but now I no longer need to. My title would have been pretty similar: If You Want Me to Read It, Please Write It.

One minor addition: when a (conscious) human writes a proposal, a question or a request, they'd instinctively choose words with which they can express their uncertainty in some of the details. I as a reader can detect these uncertainties and I can choose to do more research assert or correct them, if it feels appropriate. AI-generated texts miss those cues, therefore they are much harder to read and connect to.

0c3ca83 12 hours ago||
It's funny to see this upvoted on a site where a huge portion of the front page content wasn't written by humans.
xlayn 15 hours ago||
Just imagine the quality of text we will have if we re-feed this into an llm a thousand times...

The juxta-positioning of the ambi-dextrous personification of the meta-sematicism is going to be both rich and soul transpiring....

It's gonna be basically a fingerprint in your soul, from my soul...

mcv 6 hours ago||
I feel the same way, and yet I'm also guilty of this. I'm trying to reach out to an expert, and because of the stakes, I want to write it exactly right. I'm using Claude to write it, but I don't like how Claude writes, so I rewrite it in my own words, and I still don't like it. I've iterated over this for several days. Finally I talk to my wife, she gives me some pointers, and I just write it down perfectly.

And yet, every person high up in business that I talk to, including my wife, advises me to use Claude for this sort of thing. I don't get it. Claude text sucks, and it hurts my eyes when I'm forced to read it.

cillian64 6 hours ago|
As someone who is usually on the other side of this interaction (software engineer at a company receiving bug reports), it's much easier when people write in their own words (even if they sometimes use the wrong terms or say something which can't be true) than when they use an LLM to make things clear and correct. I want to know what you're trying to do, what you expected to happen, and what actually happened - that doesn't benefit from having an LLM rewrite it.

Sure, I use precise and technical language, but I'm still a human and I can understand what people are getting at when they use imprecise terms. But if the text passes through an LLM I can't tell whether the result actually matches the original problem or whether the LLM has made guesses or filled in blanks.

mcv 6 hours ago||
Bug reports aren't so high-stakes (although poorly written bug reports can often be useless). I've got something to sell, and I want this expert to confirm that what I've built is better than what's currently available. That's a much harder approach. You want people to send bug reports. You don't want everybody to try to sell something to you. But I really think that I've solved the problem that she identified, so I want her to take a look at it instead of dismissing it as most people would probably do when a random nobody claims to have solved something. It doesn't help that this entire issue is way out of my comfort zone.
victor9000 13 hours ago||
I ask coworkers point blank to send me a non-llm version of their slop sagas. The initial exchange can be a bit awkward, particularly with new hires, but consistently asking for human prose has worked for me.
ETH_start 3 hours ago|
I think the future is people's AI agents evaluating the content generated by other people's AI agents and vice versa.

What the humans would see would be what is filtered up to them after all of this evaluation is done. And content generation would be the reverse. People would provide a seed of an idea and then their agents would turn that into potentially useful work.

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