How much of this article was AI written? I can sense the AI smell all over the place, also I found it way too long with little substance, but maybe that’s just me.

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acron0 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Bozhidar always writes like this. I can see why you would think it's AI style but I would vote that it isn't. Look at some of his pre-AI blogs, if you care to.

	▲	bozhidar an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Guilty as charged! :D Short essays are definitely not my forte. (and this one is definitely longer than I wanted it to be, but in my typical style I kept adding to it after I wrote the initial version, and I'll probably add even more content after I go over all the discussion here)

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bozhidar 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Well, I guess that means I'm still a pretty poor writer. :D (I'm the author of the article) These days I do use AI to touch up my grammar and fix my typos, but I'm still write my articles myself and you feel that the article lacks substance - that's on me.

For me essays are something very personal, so it'd hard for the AI agent to read my mind about my thoughts on a subject.

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operatingthetan 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

At this point a lot of the articles on this site are just a 'prompt' for us to have a discussion about.

	▲	bozhidar 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Well put! To me - it always felt like this here. I have serious doubts that most people even read the articles linked to HN discussions.

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gbro3n 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I didn't get that feeling. But it is long, which is a bit of an AI smell. That said, I think use of AI in writing might not always be a negative. On a couple of documentation pieces I have used AI to provide better structure to writing that I've started and check for technical correctness parts of a document where I need to check my terminology. As long as the original idea is human and AI helps to make the signal clearer, I'm ok with it.