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I don't want to read what you didn't write

1070 points · 460 comments · mooreds

  1. blandcoffee · · focus · HN ↗
    I appreciate the direction of this article, and commend the author on publishing work, but the first sentence in the first paragraph is exactly what they lament.

    > A pattern I see is that people use AI to build something new, then they use AI to retrospectively summarize what they have already built into a design document. Reading a document like this isn’t just difficult—it is punishing.

    1. neynt · · focus · HN ↗
      To be quite generous, that could be tongue in cheek.
      1. gavinsyancey · · focus · HN ↗
        There are other AI smells later in the article, and the author talks about using AI to help with writing...
        1. mrheosuper · · focus · HN ↗
          After all AI is trained on human writting, the line is incredible blur now.
          1. therealdrag0 · · focus · HN ↗
            I feel the need to self sensor my writing when phrases sound like AI. Pretty annoying.
            1. jasonkester · · focus · HN ↗
              You could try throwing in the odd homonym in place of an important word so that people know it must have been written by a human.
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