Say you have been working on a multi year project writing code and putting in a lot of effort.
If you then use AI to write a product page documentation and proof read it for correctness, would that constitute to signaling that the whole effort is superficial?
Some work may be left to AI while you focus on the more important aspects of the work.
Surprisingly people have got it completely backwards where they want AI to generate code and humans to write documentation.
> If you then use AI to write a product page documentation and proof read it for correctness, would that constitute to signaling that the whole effort is superficial?
It would constitute signalling possibility the whole effort is superficial.
Look around at the amount of slop that is thrown out there using low-effort methods.
I haven't order the work that is being presented here, I'm in no need to guarantee its correctness. I'm only bystander whose attention the OP is trying to grab by posting it on the HN. I don't know if his project is multi year or only multi prompt. The burden of proof lays on him to show he is not one of those another guys who hide emptiness behind AI generated text. Earlier the grammatically correct and carefully laid out blog post was in itself a proof that at least some effort was exerted. Now that important signal is worthless and when it's clearly written by AI it becomes an anti-signal.
At least according to me, because the front page of the last year shows surprisingly big number people love superficial slop.
I'll reiterate, I don't know if the work here is legit or not (and after seeing that ai documentation I have no desire to check that). Demanding from the reader to carefully look past the generated documentation and meticulously analyse the actual content is more time consuming than before and opens the gates for AI slop.
And that attitude also makes people who are not experts on the subject more defenceless against hoaxes and deceit. If both frauds and legit createor look superficially identical, because they use the same chatbot, then whom should the member of general public trust, eh?
> It would constitute signalling possibility the whole effort is superficial
Our company has been developing many core projects for years and one among them is our in-house database Dip. Hiring a writer or spending engineer's time on Dip's docs raises operational cost. Mentality like this gets a startup killed.
Dip's code is pure 100% human written and scrutinized by AI where appropriate. Docs are AI generated and we have it proof-read for correctness. Developers care about documentation being correct and vetted by the people who built the system.
Bitching about docs being AI slop is nothing but virtue signaling.
We are not working for a company here. The 'gzip as a language model' is not a company project. I agree what you say would be right about inner company workings or also when working with contractors and customers. AI can save significant time, and there are another multiple guardrails in place for guaranteeing code will work - and it doesn't even matter if it's generated or written by hand.
This experience doesn't translate to Internet news aggregator at all. We are an audience, not a paying customer. There are no guardrails. And the OP is trying to get our eyes to read his post. The only experience most of us will have with it is the text of the post - so it's basically a main thing. I'm fully in right to note the post is generated with low effort.
If you then use AI to write a product page documentation and proof read it for correctness, would that constitute to signaling that the whole effort is superficial?
Some work may be left to AI while you focus on the more important aspects of the work.
Surprisingly people have got it completely backwards where they want AI to generate code and humans to write documentation.