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Ask HN: How much AI is in your writing?
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Re: Ask HN: How much AI is in your writing?
#32Ironically I use AI heavily for structuring thoughts, but often delete the most polished parts.
Overly optimized writing now triggers the same feeling as overly optimized SEO pages used to.
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#33I've been basically clankermaxxing in coding for years now and using AI chats for rubber ducking and "research" (scraping web and generating a dumpster folder of markdown "knowledge"). Also I work alone so what would be reading stack overflow I substituted with mountains of slop. My thoughts on this are: if you are soulless I don't care what you write about and how you communicate, but if you try to present human, pe…
Yes because using "clankermaxxing" in your writing is totally not soulless. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb--BiQogQ8
Re: Ask HN: How much AI is in your writing?
#34I use AI mostly to add some spice in my writings and get some grammatical mistakes, awkward phrases corrected(lmao).
I almost write every using a pen, paper and my Brain.
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#35For work, it's all curated by AI. Personally, I type it myself.
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#36i only use ai to help me shorten what i’ve wrote when i’m reaching out to prospects initially.
i want to be respectful of their time and when i write genuinely sometimes i write too much.
i like using AI to brainstorm how can i take what i wrote (maybe 500 characters) and make it concise (like 300 characters)
then i try to manually stitch it together
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#37For first drafts, I always write it by hand first, then later I'll ask AI for some feedback and thoughts. I find that the AI training data is based on really boring structured writing where it has to be
1. Introduction
2. Transition sentences
3. Middle paragraphs
4. Clean conclusions
which I find doesn't vibe with my style of writing where I tend to meander quite a bit then try to wrap things up back in a different manner
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#38An AI-written post is quite easily noticeable.
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#40None. Every word I write is my own, for better or worse. Every line of code, too. I started blogging again just to have a means of expression. No one reads it. No one cares. It isn't optmimized for SEO or whatever, but it's mine. It's weird and sad that it's come to the point, after just a few years, that that's a thing. I'm just doing what I've always been doing but now people will call you a Luddite and a mental de…
I feel you bro, we're in the same boat. I used AI for most of my coding (especially for a job) and writing for some time, but then just came a point when I stopped feeling any meaning at all. I could create some platform in days or write an engaging, SEO-optimized article for my product site, but it just felt totally wrong. Now I code myself and only use AI when I need to learn something (for example, I've been self-hosting all my stuff recently and AI sometimes helped to understand important security-related things) and I feel like a craftsman now again. The same with writing, I started writing essays on my website and also for my email list without any means of making money this time and each sentence I write makes me happy, and when I'm done writing a piece, I feel accomplished, which is impossible to get when writing with AI.