Author here. I was expecting some negativity but for whatever reason this one bites more than I imagined. The effort here was earnest and I'm sorry it reads as slop to you. Appreciate the feedback.
Just wanted to chime in (even though you probably don't want advice from me after that a-holery). I don't think LLMs are good for editing at all. They make things more wordy and obtuse. But editing is supposed to add clarity, especially in technical writing. Generally, the more you can remove while conveying the ideas the better. Honestly, I expect your original writing was better before using Claude.
Sorry again for being so harsh in the first place.
You're all good in my book, don't sweat it. I really do welcome the feedback. I am just some yokel from the internet, the burden is on me to write ~well enough so that reading 10k words isn't an enormous waste of time. Definitely rusty, but a little less so after wrestling with this one. I'm still ironing out my process, but writing more is the only way to get that sorted.
tomhow wasn't talking to you. He was talking to me. My comment was unnecessary, harsh, and unfair. It is not a bad article. I was getting a strong llm impression from the introduction and meme-image and didn't give it enough of a chance. I am genuinely sorry I overreacted and went after you like that.
