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AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)

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Re: AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)

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> Yes, it's messy and unpolished, maybe even a little hard to parse, but it's so much richer for it. ...This part immediately made me link it to the hipster stereotype: "oh, it's sooooo much better on vinyl because you can hear the cracks & pops" Neither pieces in the chat log work for me: The prompt was a wall of ramblespeak. The output was a presentation that should've been an email.

"More interesting" =/= "good". Yes, at the end of the day it's a very derisive rant against people the writer feels is too hard on AI and a defense on how they personally wield it. With a slightly ill intent to create a messy, unstructured writing in the prompt to support his point of "see, people like pretty words!". Even the attempt of using Claude to be a fancy formatter failed when you look closely at the languag…

> a very derisive rant... the derision the author clearly has...

You either do not know what derisive means or have worse reading comprehension than I do! /derision

Seriously though - it's literally just talking about the use of an LLM as an accessibility aid and argues that the LLM-assisted writing can still contain human thought. What specifically did you consider contemptuous or mocking?

FYI: https://claude.ai/share/601e313e-905c-4e4a-bb6a-24a1315013e5

> slightly ill intent

There was no ill intent. The content itself described the reason for the process. Even simple comments I write here end up with multiple edits over the hour-long edit window.

If you read my entire comment history you will find I rarely make more than a single observation per comment. Anything more complex becomes too difficult to read and revise.

Cognitive impairment is extremely difficult to understand until you have experienced it. I am particularly lucid this afternoon. That doesn't mean the difficulty is not real.

Re: AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)

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Oh god this has been driving me nuts since Opus 5 landed. Every docblock is filled with long-winded jargon explaining why this design is superior to some other design, which never existed as far as any dev who might read that comment is concerned.

This has been a thing for long while, on codex too. You ask it to do something, then tell it to do something in a different way, then it assumes it needs to do the refactor in a backward compatible way, or creates migrations for it etc.

This is why I started adding a PROJECT.md file to all my projects and a hook for claude to read it.

It contains (Among other things) stuff like "this is a single user personal project, I'm the only user, this will never be open to the public internet" etc.

It kinda-sorta tones down the proclivity to worry about backwards compatibility and slight edge cases where if someone has edited some template and the new code doesn't support it.

Re: AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)

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Volume is the problem. There's so much more of it now. Many platforms I used to enjoy are just overwhelmed with valueless content.

On platforms where you can not curate what you are fed, the healthiest option is to leave.

Yes. Volume is rarely the problem unless there's too little. Filter/search is the problem if desired material exists.

Re: AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)

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Many different people in this HN submission have given you similar feedback: given that, you should consider that your priors are not correct.

It could also be that this site has created its own hive-mind environment. Which is especially and bizzarely intolerant of AI at the moment. I don't want the prompt - I may not have access to an LLM to evaluate it. The entire argument here is misguided, and deeply angry about AI. It's equivalent to answering a question with "google it". Which is often times just plain rude.

>It could also be that this site has created its own hive-mind environment. Which is especially and bizzarely intolerant of AI at the moment.

Really? I wonder where else you haunt because this is the most pro-AI place I'm around, both in fervor and number.

Re: AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)

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> If that behavior is acceptable to the masses, so is AI generated content. No, linking blog post and posting AI generated content is not the same. One is ok, other is not.

> No, linking blog post and posting AI generated content is not the same. One is ok, other is not. Meet "the masses". Sorry, but no. Sending me a link as an alternative to having a conversation is totally not OK.

I recommend this great book, blog or whatever is completely fine in the middle of the conversation.

And it is not the same as "I had AI generate this".

Re: AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)

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Oh god this has been driving me nuts since Opus 5 landed. Every docblock is filled with long-winded jargon explaining why this design is superior to some other design, which never existed as far as any dev who might read that comment is concerned.

There needs to be a pithy name for this. I have been calling it context leak.

I like ‘accretive editing’: https://justindfuller.com/programming/accretive-editing

Re: AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)

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Oh god this has been driving me nuts since Opus 5 landed. Every docblock is filled with long-winded jargon explaining why this design is superior to some other design, which never existed as far as any dev who might read that comment is concerned.

This has been a thing for long while, on codex too. You ask it to do something, then tell it to do something in a different way, then it assumes it needs to do the refactor in a backward compatible way, or creates migrations for it etc.

I remember when I was updating some formats for my apps data files and it ended up writing v2 and laying it on top of the old one. Ended up just telling it to delete the entire feature and start again. I do think claude.md instructions help though.

Re: AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)

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My coworkers continue to dump hundreds of lines of AI documentation in every PR and every other line of code has between one and ten lines of AI generated comments, talking about the real unlock and how things are byte for byte identical on the load bearing path or how the acceptance ladder is misleading. Features are coming out and metrics are improving, but we’re basically in a post readability code base, with the…

Be the change you want to see :)

I've created myself a pre-commit harness hook to explicitly discard superfluous or too lengthy comments. Within code-review I also added comment review as blockers

Re: AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)

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What I’m trying to say is that they can generate many more hundreds of lines of code and comments than I can reasonably review. Maybe the comments do make sense they’re just five lines longer than they ought to be. Multiply that by 20 times and then add in 150 lines of documentation that is not technically incorrect. Not to mention that the response to each review will come with its own set of new comments and new do…

Your bosses don't want you actually reviewing it anyway. They want you to approve the PR . Just give them what they want. I'm currently not working in tech, but I will again sometime within the next year or so, and I've been reflecting on my career in light of the recent AI madness. I think the biggest mistakes I've made over the last decade+ in tech as a software engineer have been caring . I've worked at small, med…

I think that's just too cynical when you apply it to the entire industry. I'm sure there are coding jobs where you are just a cog in a factory line but IME there are also those where a lot of things really are up to the individual contributor because either no one else has even given them any though or higher up defer to your judgement (which is part of what they are paying you for).
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