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paimapi • yesterday at 9:36 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

is this supposed to be an example of bad writing because unnecessary bombast is definitely a sign of it

good writing is not just replacing random words with entries from thesaurus.com, it's writing for your reader. that's one thing LLM-generated text is very bad at - frequently violates the show-don't-tell rule, it lacks any interiority by it's very nature, etc

if you don't practice writing yourself, you don't develop the muscle of knowing what your reader's expectations are and you will forever remain a mediocre writer


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NetMageSCW • today at 12:29 AM

How do you know who the intended readers of that comment were?

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lcnPylGDnU4H9OF • yesterday at 10:11 PM

It reads as an example of English writing that was once considered "proper". The point I see is that it shows how this complaint about AI writing is history rhyming with itself again.

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