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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. jonathanstrange · · focus · HN ↗
      It's not important at all and I wish people would stop mentioning AI. If you have criticisms on the docs or code, by all means make them but they shouldn't concern "AI vs human" considerations. Humans have written plenty of bad and documentations, too, it really doesn't matter who wrote what to what extent, what matters is whether it's the right quality.
      1. steve1977 · · focus · HN ↗
        Since we cannot address criticism on the docs or code to the author, we have to address our criticism to the middleman and what he did.
        1. kdjdkcneixj · · focus · HN ↗
          People really need to learn that using AI to build something doesn’t automatically mean you just left every plan, spec and decision up to the AI.

          Can you do that? You absolutely can. Does everyone do that? No, absolutely not.

          It’s not a black and white issue. And, honestly, it’s quite narrow sighted and narrow minded to think so.

          The dev is not the middleman because Claude is not the author. Claude is the tool.

          1. steve1977 · · focus · HN ↗
            This is unfortunately not the reality I'm seeing at my workplace. If this is still different for you, be happy and enjoy it while it lasts.
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