It does, but what does that say about the state of communication in our industry? I've seen a lot of writing that reads like an AI produced it in contexts where I could be pretty sure no AI was involved. We want to sound professional, so we sanitize how we write so much that it becomes... whatever this current situation is.

No offense intended to @yz-yu, by the way. I miss the times when more people wrote in an eccentric style -- like Steve Yegge -- but that doesn't detract from what you wrote.

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yz-yu 5 hours ago | parent [-]

The comments here turned out much more interesting than I expected—this has become a great place to discuss the difference between AI-generated, AI-written, and AI-assisted content.

So let me start from @jbarrow's comment: "AI written, generated from the codebase."

My actual learning process looked like this:

1. I walked through the nano-vLLM codebase, asking Claude Code some high-level questions to warm up. 2. Then I asked detailed questions one by one, let it explore, and double-checked the code myself. As someone without an ML background, it sometimes took hours to understand a single concept. 3. Once I felt I understood enough, I started drawing Excalidraw diagrams to explain what I learned.

Does this count as "generated from the codebase"? I don't think so.

Where we might disagree is the writing process.

As a non-native English speaker, my workflow looks like this:

1. Write a short paragraph (<100 words), then ask my writing agent to "fix this for readability and grammar." 2. Review the output. *If it changes any technical meaning, I correct it.* I consider this a responsible way to write a tech blog. 3. Move to the next paragraph.

Is this "AI-written"? I'd call it "AI-assisted." Every idea in every sentence is mine. Honestly, things like "em dashes" never stood out to me when reviewing. I suspect that's common for non-native speakers.

I wrote this comment the same way. The LLM fixed 14 grammar mistakes that I think would distract readers more than any LLM-ish phrasing.

That said, I'm open to suggestions on how to improve my writing process :)

	▲	tubs 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		When text is (clearly) non native English I think most native readers don’t even register grammar errors. To be honest most native readers wouldn’t register grammar errors full stop. I guess I have more awe of people who speak a foreign language at all compared to piping it through some agent malarkey.