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- I don't see what this offers that Git doesn't. Even if Git only tracks lines, that's still a good proxy of how many words you wrote. Besides, you can use git diff to see whether an individual character was changed, even if the number of lines stayed the same.by matteoraso
- If the prose is not the same as LLM, then all is good.
It is not that it is bad prose, it is that we read it everywhere.
We got LLM prose fatigue.
- Please forgive me. I am NOT asserting anything, but I read this (your website), and had it not contained express claims of not being AI, I would have bet a substantial stake that it was AI. Perhaps because AI imitates good writing styles, I am not sure, but it matches many of the signals that for me, indicate AI
Edit: The above said, I am seeing in my own writing, artifacts from my interactions with AI. I am proof that, in some cases, AI can be contagious.
by eth0up - I recognize myself in that I build instead of publish.
This is just fear of rejection, in productivity-clothing.
The only way to publish, or to get published, is to put yourself out there.
You risk rejection and ridicule. But life is not a spectator sport.
by stenmorten - I don’t really understand the point of this. Scrivener has a revision history. Even google docs have versioning.
And if you’re writing seriously you’ll know that your first draft often bears no resemblance whatsoever to your final draft. Different character names, different structure, different style, different tone.
You may well have a whole bunch of things that seem completely different and a whole load of fragments that are written revised, scrapped, unscrapped, re-revised, stitched together, pulled apart and then finally assembled into a working draft.
I’m not sure how soemthing that basically counts your words and (maybe) proves you’re not using AI helps with a typical sprawling novel plan.
by saaaaaam - Saw quite a few a Claude-isms, like: “It’s git commits, minus..”
The blog is AI-created—the commits all have “Claude” as a co-author. [1] The “BLOG-WRITING-GUIDE.md” used to write this post gives it away. [2]
And the product the blog is advertising (“VellumProof”)—that website is 100% Claude too. [3]
Perhaps this is some social experiment? Don’t really get it.
[1]: https://github.com/dylanreed/dylan.blog/commit/a7327d0968692...
[2]: https://github.com/dylanreed/dylan.blog/blob/main/docs/BLOG-...
by claiir - > As I’ve mentioned before, we now live in a world where creative people have to prove they created the thing they created.
Do you? Just stop caring. I don't think it makes sense to keep asserting that you're an AI vegan in order to please randos. You'll always get hate creating/building anything online. The people that enjoy your work won't care if it's AI or not or they'll believe you.
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