Editing notes on the content - the content of this blog post is clearly AI-enhanced (emdash) which is ok but the tone is not. It's super flowery and oversold - example "It was a shift from a single laser to a powerful floodlight."
My process is to dictate and word vomit all of my thoughts to AI (in this case Gemini 2.5 Pro) and then refine from there. I know there's some amount of "smells like AI" in the writing, but at this point I don't think it takes away from the lessons shared.
That said, maybe it's worth it to modify things so there is less "AI sounding" verbiage. Don't want folks to write it off as "AI Slop" because of certain phrases. TBD!
Yes you’re right, it’s AI enhanced to the point of sounding not like an engineer authentically trying to communicate with other engineers.
However it’s also the direction given to the AI enhancement - it’s steered toward buzzword/hype style.
“I managed a swarm of AI agents…”? How about instead just “I ran multiple instances of Claude Code and the results seem promising”? No swarms necessary.
lm28469|6 months ago
I'm not even going to bother reading the rest. Just give me the bullet points you fed the LLM at that point
zachwills|6 months ago
That said, maybe it's worth it to modify things so there is less "AI sounding" verbiage. Don't want folks to write it off as "AI Slop" because of certain phrases. TBD!
WhitneyLand|6 months ago
However it’s also the direction given to the AI enhancement - it’s steered toward buzzword/hype style.
“I managed a swarm of AI agents…”? How about instead just “I ran multiple instances of Claude Code and the results seem promising”? No swarms necessary.
zachwills|6 months ago