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157 points loumf | 2 comments | 05 Sep 25 05:33 UTC | HN request time: 0.537s | source

This is the first half of my book, “Swimming in Tech Debt”. It is available at a pre-launch sale price of $0.99 (https://loufranco.com/tech-debt-book).

I have been working on it since January 2024. It is based on some posts in my blog, but expands on my ideas quite a bit.

In September 2024, excerpts appeared in Gergely Orosz’s Pragmatic Engineer newsletter, which helped me get a lot of feedback that expanded the book from my initial idea. This half is about what I expected to do before that —- the rest of the book goes into team and CTO practices.

1. willahmad ◴[05 Sep 25 09:38 UTC] No.45136716[source]▶

>>45135263 (OP) #

First of all, congratulations

Honest question expecting your honest response. How much of it's written by AI? Recently, I noticed I am liking thoughts of real people over the super structured, emdash-y, zero grammar mistake AI texts.

I want to support authors who share their experiences, rather than guiding AI to write thoughts

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2. loumf ◴[05 Sep 25 11:57 UTC] No.45137531[source]▶

>>45136716 (TP) #

I did not use AI to write this. I paid professional editors to help me get it polished. There were 4 rounds with 5 different people. I also got lots of grammar/typo comments using helpthisbook (hundreds of readers pointing out errors).

I did (very rarely) take single sentences to ChatGPT and ask it for the correct way to punctuate it.

I personally have always used em-dashes, perhaps incorrectly. I actually tried to learn the correct usage and stick to using it when appropriate. One of my goals in writing this book was to become a better writer, which I could only do (IMO) by writing and getting editors to help me.

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