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Anything is better than the current crop of Claudes, its prose has become painful.
You make some good points, but the best one is the one you might not be aware you've made.
The spread isn't as large as I thought from the headline. It's closer to a toss-up than I would have expected. The length of the response is a huge factor: > Students tended to prefer longer responses. The selected answer was 37% longer on average than the alternatives. The longest response won 47.7% of decisive writing comparisons. The shortest still won 25.0%. So the score is partially a proxy for longest responses…
Anyone else scratching their head at these descriptions? Uh, your writing is shapeless. You’re 5% too mechanical. Who talks like this? Fiction writers and editors??
> “The best response must be complete without becoming shapeless, structured without sounding mechanical…” Anyone else scratching their head at these descriptions? Uh, your writing is shapeless. You’re 5% too mechanical. Who talks like this? Fiction writers and editors??
Gemini is the only model that has made legitimately good jokes - subtle, clever. I was terrified.
Author, that doesn’t mean you need to get Gemini to write your article.
TBH i did a bit of both - we used AI to get us insights in the db, we then wrote and rewrote the article to be readable. It's really hard because usually when i write reports they're so terse its not fun to read
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TBH i did a bit of both - we used AI to get us insights in the db, we then wrote and rewrote the article to be readable. It's really hard because usually when i write reports they're so terse its not fun to read
We need a new kind of "view source" on the web.
I use Fable for writing code and some planning. I use GPT for planning/roadmaps and code review, it checks Fable. I use Gemini for stray conversations. Gemini has a better conversational style than GPT, less robotic; it hallucinates more unfortunately, it has plainly fallen quite a bit behind, but it's still highly useful to converse with, research with, etc. And it spares me wasting usage of GPT or Fable. I use Gemi…
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For real, the "Claudish" has become so painful to read that it just takes me out of whatever task I was working on. When prompted to use simple English without jargon, it's still filled with load bearing honest caveats in every footgun seam it talks about — what I should have led with. And I'm not the only one to notice this. Next time it's up for renewal, my team is abandoning it for GH Copilot in order to use liter…
That claim about load bearing is doing a lot of work there! I'm curious to know how "Claudish" emerged during the training process. Why each AI has a particular voice if much of the training material is the same across AIs?
That, and my conspiracy hat says it's a way of watermarking the output.