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This seems like an interesting project but the Claude writing rubs me the wrong way. I couldn't finish it, unfortunately, but props for building it!

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I absolutely hate AI writing as well, but I suspect since the author is French, and the underlying code in their GitHub project [1] uses a lot of French naming, that it was more of a translation aid.

[1] https://github.com/Zebra-Rodeo/marelleo

Yeah I think that's what happened. Still a bit unfortunate though for presenting such a nice project.

The French is pretty much word-for-word the same as the English, so the Claudeisms didn't come from translation. It's all the same LLM output.

"You’re not buying a player, you’re buying a subscription dressed up as a wooden toy. And that genuinely annoys me."

had to stop reading from that point onwards.

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