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blandcoffeeyesterday at 10:49 PM2 repliesview on HN

I appreciate the direction of this article, and commend the author on publishing work, but the first sentence in the first paragraph is exactly what they lament.

> A pattern I see is that people use AI to build something new, then they use AI to retrospectively summarize what they have already built into a design document. Reading a document like this isn’t just difficult—it is punishing.


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neyntyesterday at 10:54 PM

To be quite generous, that could be tongue in cheek.

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Apocryphonyesterday at 10:55 PM

That's a classic calling card of LLM prose but that doesn't mean they actually used an AI. Though sure, it would be nice if we gave this style a name and then abolished it.

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