It's hilarious that after all those years of resistance to technical writing and formal specification engineers and programmers have suddenly been reduced to nothing more than technical writers and specification designers. Funny that I somehow don't foresee technical writing pay bumps happening as a consequence of this sudden surge in importance.

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verdverm 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This post does a very good job of laying out that argument

https://jsulmont.github.io/swarms-ai/

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jondwillis 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Reads like slop to me. Reeeeeally verbose and many “it’s not just …, it’s …” all over the place.

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verdverm 8 hours ago | parent [-]

slopman, the new strawman argument

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jascha_eng 7 hours ago | parent [-]

You just don't know which parts of the doc are real and which are hallucinated. Maybe the prompter checked everything and the content is actually good, but sadly many don't and there is a lot of slop flying around.

So if you want others to read the output you'll have to de-slopify it, ideally make it shorter and remove the tells.

If I go by good faith these days and trust that someone didn't just upload llm hallucinated bullshit, I'd sadly just be reading slop all day and not learning anything or worse even get deceived by hallucinations and make wrong assumptions. It's just a waste of someones precious life time.

LLMs can read through slop all day, humans can not without getting extremely annoyed.

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verdverm 5 hours ago | parent [-]

> You just don't know which parts of the doc are real and which are hallucinated.

It doesn't look like slop at all to me. GP claimed that this was written by ai without evidence, which I assumed to be based in bias, based on GP's comment history: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=jondwillis They complaint they have about the writing style is not the style that is emblematic of Ai slop. Then, considering the depth of analysis and breadth of connection, this is not something current Ai is up to producing.

Are you also assuming the article was written by an Ai?

	▲	fwip an hour ago \| parent [-]
		It's definitely LLM-written, or at least LLM-edited.

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skybrian 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Uh, more like managers than writers. We (the agent and I) have written about 20 design docs for my personal project and none of them were by hand.