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fn-moteyesterday at 6:21 PM1 replyview on HN

Thank you for the post.

> Too long; You rambled too much there in the middle […]

Is this Claude’s suggestions for editing your post??


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rtkweyesterday at 6:30 PM

Nah, that whole thing is pure human. I originally had simple "tl;dr" but this felt more true and acknowledging of my poor self editing/thought organizing plus a little self deprecating. [0] Somethings that smell of llm speak are common in their output because the llms are mirroring human writing patterns after all.

The only LLM sourced thing in there is I found the nuclear secrecy blog post in a citation link but I then read it myself to try to avoid cherry picking a portion of an article that ultimately shut down my own argument.

[0] eta: Also I thought some people might take tl;dr offensively so softened it with the self deprication.