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Amiga Unix, Again

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  1. jchw · · focus · HN ↗
    My eternal advice to anyone doing heavily LLM assisted projects is to do them a bit less LLM assisted. You should still use LLMs, in my opinion, they're wonderful tools. But I know reading this page that this text is mostly LLM-generated, and that leaves there to be little hope that much else of the project isn't.

    It's one thing if your code is really truly "co-authored by" Claude. It's another thing if it isn't even really co-authored by you.

    Evidently the majority of people see no problem with LLM prose, but me and many others think it is some of the most annoying crap possible. Please consider speaking in your own voice.

    I know this gets repetitive, but it is important.

    1. tim-projects · · focus · HN ↗
      I don't think its important. I think these comments are more annoying than ai prose. You are fighting a losing battle and annoying everyone in the process. Adapt.
      1. canelonesdeverd · · focus · HN ↗
        Really sad to reduce ourselves to meat-proxies.
      2. UpsideDownRide · · focus · HN ↗
        If people can't adapt then they will get left behind. There is little value in providing a username for LLM to speak instead of you.
      3. wolrah · · focus · HN ↗
        > You are fighting a losing battle and annoying everyone in the process.

        These comments are even more annoying. Sides that are winning don't have to constantly tell their opponents that they're losing. I have no idea why you and so many others seem to have attached their ego to the use of a tool that you feel the need to attack people who have complaints about the output it's often used to generate.

      4. peder · · focus · HN ↗
        Hacker News is so annoying about this. It really feels like sour grapes that people are shipping cool projects without one of the Y Combinator-type software engineers blessing the project with their handwritten code.
        1. Sharlin · · focus · HN ↗
          Use AI all you want but don’t imply that the work was done by you in any sense.
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