Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists

Plenty of people have English as a second language. Having an LLM help them rewrite their writing to make it better conform to a language they are not fluent in feels entirely appropriate to me.

I don't care if they used an LLM provided they put their best effort in to confirm that it's clearly communicating the message they are intending to communicate.

Yeah, my wife was just telling me how much Grammarly has helped her with improving her English.

On the contrary, I've found Simon's opinions informative and valuable for many years, since I first saw the lightning talk at PyCon about what became Django, which IIRC was significantly Simon's work. I see nothing in his recent writing to suggest that this has changed. Rather, I have found his writing to be the most reliable and high-information-density information about the rapid evolution of AI.

Language only works as a form of communication when knowledge of vocabulary, grammar, etc., is shared between interlocutors, even though indeed there is no objectively correct truth there, only social convention. Foreign language learners have to acquire that knowledge, which is difficult and slow. For every "turn of phrase" you "enjoy" there are a hundred frustrating failures to communicate, which can sometimes be serious; I can think of one occasion when I told someone I was delighted when she told me her boyfriend had dumped her, and another occasion when I thought someone was accusing me of lying, both because of my limited fluency in the languages we were using, French and Spanish respectively.

If you think my writing is AI-generated you need to recalibrate your AI writing detection skills, they're way off.

Hijacking, but

Hey hey you're the TIL guy! I was designing my blog and I looked at what was suggested as the best blogs, yours was on it.

The TIL is such a great idea, takes the pressure off of "is it really good enough to post as a blog"

Glad to see you here :D

Woah! You can't comment like this on Hacker News, no matter who you're replying to or what it's about.

If posts are unfit for HN or if you think someone is posting too much, flag them and email us, and there are things we can do.

It's never ok to personally attack someone like this on HN. If we want others to do better we have to hold ourselves to a high standard too.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

He's always here! He's here all the time! He's one of the good features of HN. :)