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175 points Bogdanp | 1 comments | 31 Oct 25 21:41 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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ef2k ◴[31 Oct 25 22:38 UTC] No.45777474[source]▶
Maybe it's just me, but reading through LLM generated prose becomes a drag very quickly. The em dashes sprinkled everywhere, the "it's not this, it's that" style of writing. I even tried listening to it and it's still exhausting. Maybe it's the ubiquity of it nowadays that is making me jaded, but I tend to appreciate terrible writing, like I'm doing in this comment, more nowadays.
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1. andrewflnr ◴[01 Nov 25 02:02 UTC] No.45778678[source]▶
> I tend to appreciate terrible writing, like I'm doing in this comment, more nowadays.

Nah dude, what you're describing from LLMs is terrible writing. Just because it has good grammar and punctuation doesn't make it good, for exactly the reasons you listed. Good writing pulls you through.