[meeech]

Honest question: approx what percent of the post was human vs machine written?

[tomhow]

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44213763 and marked it off-topic.

[diwank]

I’d say around ~40% me, the ideating, editing, citations, and images are all mine; rest Opus 4 :)

I typically try to also include the original Claude chat’s link in the post but it seems like Claude doesn’t allow sharing chats with deep research used in them.

Update: here’s an older chatgpt conversation while preparing this: https://chatgpt.com/share/6844eaae-07d0-8001-a7f7-e532d63bf8...

[tomhow]

Thanks for being transparent about this, but we’re not wanting substantially LLM-generated content on HN.

We’ve been asking the community to refrain from publicly accusing authors of posting LLM-generated articles and comments. But the other side of that is that we expect authors to post content thay they’ve created themselves.

It’s one thing to use an LLM for proof-reading and editing suggestions, but quite another for “60%” of an article to be LLM-generated. For that reason I’m having to bury the post.

Edit: I changed this decision after further information and reflection. See this comment for further details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44215719

[meeech]

thanks. to be clear, I'm not asking the q to be particularly negative about it. Its more just curiosity, mixed with trade in effort. If you wrote it 100%, I'm more inclined to read the whole thing. vs say now just feeding it back to the GPM to extract the condensed nuggets.