[cgio]

Quoting: “ What I’m describing is different. I’ll call it Vibe Discovery: you don’t know what you’re building. The requirements themselves are undefined. You’re not just discovering implementation - you’re discovering what the product should be.

The distinction matters:”

What is it with this pattern of phrases that screams LLM to me? Whenever I come upon this pattern I stop reading further.

[roywiggins]

Not only does it scream LLM output, I happen to find it almost always grating. It's fine enough when something is labeled as AI output, but when it's nominally a human-authored document it's maddening.

Claude tics appear to include the following:

- It's not just X, it's Y

- *The problem* / *The Solution*

- Think of it as a Z that Ws.

- Not X, not Y. Just Z.

- Bold the first sentence of each element of a list. If it's writing markdown, it does this constantly

- Unicode arrows → Claude

- Every subsection has a summary. Every document also has a summary. It's "what I'm going to tell you; What I'm telling you; What I just told you", in fractal form, adhered to very rigidly. Maybe it overindexed on Five Paragraph Essays

[Wowfunhappy]

> Unicode arrows → Claude

Oh no!! Yet another thing I've been doing for the past decade which will now make me look like a robot. I thought my penchant for em-dashes was bad enough.

I have a keyboard shortcut to make the arrows. I think they look nice.

[lithocarpus]

One way I'd describe it is LLMs say lots of things that technically make sense but aren't quite like anyone would normally say it.

And secondly they like to use more nouns for things, in my experience.

Of course all this is just what I observe currently and could well become different for better and worse in future versions.

[trollbridge]

It’s just like my friend has a distinct way of speaking. LLMs also have a distinct voice.

[kikkupico]

I misjudged the amount of dislike HN users have for AI generated writing. I have added a "meta" section explaining how the post itself was written by AI, directed by my own taste. Here's the meta - https://www.kikkupico.com/posts/vibe-discovery/#the-meta

To be frank, I don't think AI-generated writing is inherently bad. Since there appears to be a strong bias against it, I will stick to writing blog posts by hand.