alt Hacker News> The book is definitely LLM assisted authoring yet it also has great content, so not sure we can immediately jump to shaming it entirely for being slop.
Personally I have an extremely hard time reading text like this and it makes me lose trust in the author. Publishing potentially useful Git knowledge this way is a shame.
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alchemist1e9 • today at 12:27 PM
They wouldn’t be able to publish this useful knowledge easily without it though. And it’s the author’s guidance and vision which the LLM just helps materialize and so I think we should be studying how to generate content with less “slop” features and make it more natural and satisfactory for human readers, not discouraging it.
"Shame" is a strong word to describe a free ebook written for the general good. Happy to have a live conversation with you anytime to discuss Git and its internals to ensure your trust; I have some experience with it.