I'm curious: how, exactly, did it go from this is painful to read due to AI, to no one cares about AI use and you demanded quality when you used it and delivered?

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jaggederest an hour ago | parent [-]

It didn't, it went from "this reeks from AI after edits, here's a tool that can help" to "people can read past it but there are better ways, you must demand quality". I don't think those two things are inconsistent.

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refulgentis an hour ago | parent [-]

Ah, I see, after he uses the tool it'll be great because he has taste.

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jaggederest an hour ago | parent [-]

I don't think "if you iterate on this, try using some tools, and ultimately demand that the output meet or exceed your demonstrated taste in other domains" is a hot take, honestly.

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refulgentis an hour ago | parent [-]

It's not a hot take, you're right, I gravely misunderstood the timing in your post, i.e. you were clearly framing it as after and being polite and encouraging.

I'm more hot about it because it's frustrating having so many HN posts be a place for people to work out first drafts, especially when the first piece of feedback is "hey, uh, you clearly used AI and it's horrible to read as a result." So easy to avoid...good on you for being kinder.

(part of my frustration is I was excited because I write an local LLM client and thought I missed Gemma 4 has streaming video input support, but after reading through the slop it turns out its just the ol' "extract frames" workflow. tbf that would have happened AI or not, but put me in a mood)

	▲	jaggederest 39 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		No worries, text is hard whether there's AI involved or not - I, in turn, mistook your clarification as a snarky "ah well of course if they try harder it'll be fine", my apologies for that. I share your frustration, but the best way I think is to educate not remonstrate unless they're someone who should clearly know better[1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48172536