This is way too dense, you need to distill your thesis and interesting ideas down to a small post if you expect people spending time reading a 417 page PDF
I skimmed this; it isn't terrible content (even though many parts are clearly AI written).
But I don't understand the purpose of this book. Is it an educational material, a speculative fiction, or an essay trying to convince the reader of something?
Because if you wanted any of these things, you could literally skip the book and go straight to the AI that will give it to you, tailored for your project.
This isn't a criticism, more a philosophical question I'm asking myself after 25 years of coding.
The author appears to be a CS professor. If it is the same person, it is interesting that he chose not to reveal his affiliation, or mention this document on his page.
Why is so much of generated AI art so... literal? The cover art of this PDF literally spells out what the graphics are supposed to represent. The vast majority of AI visuals on LinkedIn are the same way. If this is what's in store as the future of art, at least commercial art -- feels like a huge step backwards if I'm being honest.
And anyway, what's the point of generating a massive tome like this on a topic evolving as fast as agentic software? Sure it will be outdated within months, if not weeks...
And the full circle begins AI writes a lot of content and we ask another AI to summarize it. It’s like that project where the guy keeps uploading and downloading a video to YouTube until it’s just mess of pixelated frames. I feel like AI written content is similar.
For writing with an LLM you really have to be precise and honest with your AI usage and I don't think the disclosure here does a good job at that. If you sample a few random pages there are huge shifts in style and tone.
The future where your AI expands your sentence into a few paragraphs that my AI distills down into a sentence sucks just send me your rough draft
If you're going to write with AI give me the prompts. Don't produce this strange tone-shifting full-of-fluff mess where most of it is machine filler content. The density of ideas to text is absurdly low.
Let's just be open an honest with one another. If I really want to read something like this my AI can generate it from your prompts just as well as your can.
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Edit: Downloaded the pdf, started reading it. So much slop. I think something of value could be surfaced much earlier.
But I don't understand the purpose of this book. Is it an educational material, a speculative fiction, or an essay trying to convince the reader of something?
Because if you wanted any of these things, you could literally skip the book and go straight to the AI that will give it to you, tailored for your project.
This isn't a criticism, more a philosophical question I'm asking myself after 25 years of coding.
And anyway, what's the point of generating a massive tome like this on a topic evolving as fast as agentic software? Sure it will be outdated within months, if not weeks...
The future where your AI expands your sentence into a few paragraphs that my AI distills down into a sentence sucks just send me your rough draft
Let's just be open an honest with one another. If I really want to read something like this my AI can generate it from your prompts just as well as your can.