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This dude invented not one but multiple dog health care products ... with no animal product design background whatsoever! Then (with no business background) he started an entire company helping hundreds of dogs all over the world.

Maybe instead of expecting everyone to be good at everything, we cut this guy a little slack and let him use AI to help write?

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I think it's possible to give someone their flowers for being a great innovator and also call them out for producing writing that's painful to read.

I didnt find it painful

Exactly. This is far better than your usual AI slop...

And it’s for sick dogs, and he said he wasn’t even trying to monetize it

Like if we have a problem with this being vibe coded, we’ve got a problem guys

Clearly, some readers did, given all of the similar posts on the HN thread.

It's also worth noting that the article has been edited in the last hour. Some section headers read a lot more clearly and naturally now (which is awesome!).

Nah, they’re just bandwagoning at the tier that they understand and engage with the content. It’s like why the lowest effort jokes get upvoted on Reddit. Same reason complaints about CSS get upvoted on this webshit centered forum.

You had me until the CSS bit

Yeah, didn't find it painful either

Absolutely.

But, did AI actually _help_ in this specific phrase? I think it's OK to point out the quirks (and even drawbacks) of AI, even if we generally support the underlying motions of the person using it.

Are managers not part of a delivery team?

My assumption is that every LLM-written article would just not have been written otherwise. That is a net good. It's also true that it's grating to read LLM-written prose.

Am I utterly mistaken or was LLM-written prose more tolerable when it was GPT-4o and Opus 3.x writing it?

no one's preventing him from using it, we're pointing out flaws with the tool in an effort to get people to improve

It's all very impressive and heartwarming.

But that doesn't change that slop sucks to read.

The AI didnt help him write. The AI wrote very annoying prose. Seemingly everyone was completely capable of writing long winded comments, rants, and rambles before AI. They can do it after too just fine.

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