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Lots of people have their own voice and tend to prefer certain phrases. This has been the case for a long time and is generally not a big issue. Now LLMs come along and they also have their own phrasing preferences. But now it's a problem because what used to be personal preferences of a single person that manifests in 5000 words per day from one person tops, is now the bias of a single model multiplied x10,000,000,0…
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> hen I am reading prose online that I previously would have expected a human to write, it can be quite jarring to realize its an LLM. Because it just feels lazy. It triggers my "If you couldn't be bothered to write it, why do you expect me to spend my time reading it" allergy.
Let's turn this around. I don't use any paid AI or any agents. I just use some of their free interactive question answering interfaces. There have been some times where I've been doing a project in a language or environment that I do not use a lot, and maybe need to use language or environment features I've never had occasion to learn. I don't ask AI to write it for me, or even to write any particular functions. I mi…
But if you do not know the environment, and use AI to create the answers and phrasing. Then you don't really sound like the authority to help me on that particular subject. Why not refer to the authority on the subject instead, or just send the prompts instead so the person on the other end can do their own processing.
If you don't know the answer to something, you don't need to reply. I get the idea of wanting to help people, and it's a nice sentiment. But it's also good to know where your expertise ends.
And the issue with these large generated blog post type things is that I don't know how well the author actually understands the subject. The LLM might've just gotten the right info and and wrote some confident text surrounding it. But it's framed as if the person wrote it. When they might just passing it off as their own. But I don't read blog posts or seek out forums to converse with LLMs, if I wanted that I would've used the LLM myself. Because if it's not the person's own thoughts, what's even the point of communication.
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The reason I first created a CLAUDE.md file was to tell it whenever it felt a need to praise me, to replace it with a random onomatopoeia. That was a huge dx improvement. OTOH, my unicorn prompt has caused some challenges at work: >Keep "Local Oaf" out of committed code
Thanks for the onomatopoeia idea, I am going to steal it for my own global claude/agents.md.
I do not mind when I am coding with Claude and it uses all the typical claudisms. I am much more bothered when I am reading a blog post, email, or other form of prose and I see those same claudisms. I guess they are not annoying since I know I am talking to an LLM and expect the typical responses. When I am reading prose online that I previously would have expected a human to write, it can be quite jarring to realize…
Maybe you could choose the word based on the previous words as context. Maybe the algorithm could be based on machine learning, using some sort of language model perhaps?