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1. hebeje+L4[view] [source] 2026-02-01 23:29:17
>>jimmin+(OP)
I think these days if I’m going to be actively promoting code I’ve created (with Claude, no shade for that), I’ll make sure to write the documentation, or at the very least the readme, by hand. The smell of LLM from the docs of any project puts me off even when I like the idea of the project itself, as in this case. It’s hard to describe why - maybe it feels like if you care enough to promote it, you should care to try and actually communicate, person to person, to the human being promoted at. Dunno, just my 2c and maybe just my own preference. I’d rather read a typo-ridden five line readme explaining the problem the code is there to solve for you and me,the humans, not dozens of lines of perfectly penned marketing with just the right number of emoji. We all know how easy it is to write code these days. Maybe use some of that extra time to communicate with the humans. I dunno.

Edit: I see you, making edits to the readme to make it sound more human-written since I commented ;) https://github.com/gavrielc/nanoclaw/commit/40d41542d2f335a0...

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2. jofzar+uq[view] [source] 2026-02-02 02:50:17
>>hebeje+L4
I 100% agree, reading very obviously ai written blogs and "product pages"/readme's has turned into a real ick for me.

Just something that screams "I don't care about my product/readme page, why should you".

To be clear, no issue with using AI to write the actual program/whatever it is. It's just the readme/product page which super turns me off even trying/looking into it.

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3. charci+aO[view] [source] 2026-02-02 07:16:49
>>jofzar+uq
Why do you think people do not care about something if they AI generated it? I care about many things I've generated.
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4. wernse+WW[view] [source] 2026-02-02 08:55:31
>>charci+aO
It's the perception.

"I couldn't be bothered to write a proper README, so I had the AI do it"

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