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I feel like sharing a blog post you let Claude write for you is a pretty good sign you have not successfully evaded AI Brain Fry.

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So very true. In my defence - I’ve dictated, read and approved it.

It's full of Claudisms that grate. I do not believe you've dictated it - definitely not all of it.

On the other hand, if you naturally produce Claudish without even using AI, that's a pretty good sign of brain fry as well.

I actually was thinking about this phenomena. I’m not a native speaker and feel that in English overtime I tend to pick up Clauds “speaking style” as that’s what I “speak” most English to. Doesn’t happen with my mother tongue though

>I’m not a native speaker

This is the second post on HN today where someone gave this reason for using Claude to write/draft a blog post.

In my opinion, a post that obviously reads as non-native English is going to be more readable than something that can be detected as Claude output these days, unless maybe the former is filled with mistakes. I would imagine native speakers have a higher chance to detect Claudisms than someone less familiar with the language.

I suggest posting both languages, if it's not too much trouble. The unpolished original adds credibility these days!

> That closing is the whole trick.

This is such a short blog post. You read this line (an entire paragraph by itself) and thought "good job Claude, you really captured what I was trying to say here"?

But that closing is indeed the trick. The most important thing. You free up context in your head. And load the next bit.

Not sure why people hate so much AI generated text if it makes sense.

If you look at AI-written text, one major problem with it is the overuse of sentence fragments, very short sentences [1] and, more generally, a staccato style of writing rather than having the discourse flow. This can make the writing feel hard to follow. It's sort of the opposite problem of run-on sentences. Overuse of metaphors is also something that is counterproductive when you want to be understood, and LLMs make them a habit.

You can combat that to some extent by giving the model a style guide to curb the worst excesses, but some are likely to still slip through.

It doesn't bother me much personally, but for plenty of people it's a nails-on-chalkboard thing.

[1] For example, the problem with the em-dashes is not the em-dashes, but that it's just another case of getting hit with punctuation every few words.

It doesn't make sense! AI-generated text is insufferable. It requires so much parsing to get to what it's trying to say. Once I figure out what it's trying to say, I can generally say it with fewer words and less pompous structuring. I bet you could too, and then your blog post would actually be readable!

I sincerely hope you were taking the piss with that first paragraph.

> Not sure why people hate so much AI generated text if it makes sense.

1. It says you did not put much effort in it

2. It is grating to read

3. It's dehumanizing

I could instantly detect it's claudiness too. I'm not sure what it is, but it's almost like it is physically injuring my brain when I read stuff like "Then comes the part that matters most". Perhaps because it's wearing a channel through repetition. One of my greatest fears is that this exposure starts to make us all talk and think in the same way. I honestly think that it's probably doing that already. Gah.

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