“ There were tasks I could have done in 20 minutes easily, that took 5 minutes of an AI agent, and then 2 days for me to review.”
This is using AI for productivity in any domain, in a nutshell. I just wrote a book using Claude as an experiment, and while the thing got done and it was an amazing tool and a great experience, what I’m left with is a book where every line needs rewriting, there are logical inconsistencies throughout, and the style is so bad it should actually just be binned rather than rewritten.
I noticed lately that recent LLMs write very short sentences, sprinkling so many periods over one paragraph. I'm pretty sure that this is some new regression that we're having with new models.
That's a side effect of people bashing the em-dash and the labs rushing to correct. The period is the most common replacement (along with some minor tweaks to sentence structure), so now that models are being RL'd away from the em-dash the models are overusing a new construction.
That's stupid. People didn't bash the em dash because it was an em dash. They bashed it because it made it obvious it was AI. If your product is so good why are your customers ashamed of using it?
Honest take: people aren't ashamed of using AI, they're trying to avoid being cancelled by rabidly anti-AI ideologues who would hate AI output even if it was the best thing they'd ever seen.
gizajob · · focus · HN ↗
This is using AI for productivity in any domain, in a nutshell. I just wrote a book using Claude as an experiment, and while the thing got done and it was an amazing tool and a great experience, what I’m left with is a book where every line needs rewriting, there are logical inconsistencies throughout, and the style is so bad it should actually just be binned rather than rewritten.
manbash · · focus · HN ↗
Have you noticed it, too?
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