It's meant to remove LLMisms from select text. It uses a review pass so it's not exactly fast enough to just include for everything; I use it for filing issues, PRs etc.
some UX tweaks could make this very useful. long landing pages and many sections are hallmarks of a model not pushing back, there are high signal variants for humans, you can pack a lot more information on screen in one section without clutter
Interesting that Hong Kong either isn't part of your comparison table, or it's folded into China, given the stated motivation for building this, as some of those services you include seem to have different restrictions for the two.
This is interesting stuff, but it really reeeally throws up a wall of disinterest when I get halfway through a post and realize I'm reading LLMisms. There's something just so terribly grating about writing with so many forceful, punctuated prose mechanisms being used in high density without any connection to a human mind behind it.
Here's a quick example. The last para is: "Happy to be told a cell is wrong. That is the useful outcome." Yeah, I get what you're trying to make the robot say, but I'm pretty sure being corrected on one particular cell was not "the" teleological purpose of the entire proceeding thing. It's this slow accumulation of breathlessly not-quite-right communication that makes LLM prose so loathable, as well as the implicit insult that we should spend more effort mentally grappling with this prose than you spent making a computer make it.
I don’t think it’s necessarily the “I can also make a robot do that”. Things are useful regardless of who made them.
It’s the lack of care that comes with the obvious tell that a comment such as the one above, is not genuine. Are you really “happy to be told a cell is wrong”? Did those things you say surprised you actually surprise you? Of course not; these are Claude patterns and they’re there because Claude has been taught to speak like this.
So what is the point of the comment? Instead of a dozen paragraphs it could just be a brief summary and motivation. Instead it’s a copy paste of the pointless output of “Write a HN comment about this”.
It does reflect badly on the project because if any care at all was involved in it (beyond a “I have a vague idea please make the thing” prompt), more care would have gone into the comment that goes with it…
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[ 0.25 ms ] story [ 38.3 ms ] threadIt's meant to remove LLMisms from select text. It uses a review pass so it's not exactly fast enough to just include for everything; I use it for filing issues, PRs etc.
some UX tweaks could make this very useful. long landing pages and many sections are hallmarks of a model not pushing back, there are high signal variants for humans, you can pack a lot more information on screen in one section without clutter
Here's a quick example. The last para is: "Happy to be told a cell is wrong. That is the useful outcome." Yeah, I get what you're trying to make the robot say, but I'm pretty sure being corrected on one particular cell was not "the" teleological purpose of the entire proceeding thing. It's this slow accumulation of breathlessly not-quite-right communication that makes LLM prose so loathable, as well as the implicit insult that we should spend more effort mentally grappling with this prose than you spent making a computer make it.
It’s the lack of care that comes with the obvious tell that a comment such as the one above, is not genuine. Are you really “happy to be told a cell is wrong”? Did those things you say surprised you actually surprise you? Of course not; these are Claude patterns and they’re there because Claude has been taught to speak like this.
So what is the point of the comment? Instead of a dozen paragraphs it could just be a brief summary and motivation. Instead it’s a copy paste of the pointless output of “Write a HN comment about this”.
It does reflect badly on the project because if any care at all was involved in it (beyond a “I have a vague idea please make the thing” prompt), more care would have gone into the comment that goes with it…
[waves from the EU, which appears to have been forgotten]