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x-complexitytoday at 1:11 AM1 replyview on HN

> Yes, it's messy and unpolished, maybe even a little hard to parse, but it's so much richer for it.

...This part immediately made me link it to the hipster stereotype:

"oh, it's sooooo much better on vinyl because you can hear the cracks & pops"

Neither pieces in the chat log work for me: The prompt was a wall of ramblespeak. The output was a presentation that should've been an email.


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johnnyanmactoday at 7:31 AM

"More interesting" =/= "good". Yes, at the end of the day it's a very derisive rant against people the writer feels is too hard on AI and a defense on how they personally wield it. With a slightly ill intent to create a messy, unstructured writing in the prompt to support his point of "see, people like pretty words!".

Even the attempt of using Claude to be a fancy formatter failed when you look closely at the language employed in the final prompt. It's trying to convey the same ideas with better foratting, but still softens up the derision the author clearly has here. Which is the interesting part in my eyes.

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