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Terr_today at 5:55 AM0 repliesview on HN

Yeah, I find it... not incomprehensible, but perhaps deeply misguided the way many people are using LLMs mostly to bulk things up.

1. They generate a lot of fluff that people are accustomed to thinking of as a "sign of work" or "sign of intelligence", but now that counterfeits are easy they are not (should not be) valuable anymore.

2. That fluff (and grammatical annoyances) make readers zone out instead of getting what you want them to get from the document.

3. Much of the document is often an extrapolation from a much smaller set of data like source-code or a spreadsheet or the prompt-stuff. If you really believe the tech will get better, then you should be preserving those higher-truth artifacts instead, and use them to generate an improved extrapolation as-needed.