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Elliott
Elliott

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Your AI slop bores me

Using AI is fine; I use it daily. Posting the raw output without reading it first is the tell.

The em dashes in every other sentence. The emoji bullets in a README. A stock-feeling header image that gestures at your topic without saying anything specific about it. That opener about today's fast-paced landscape. Wikipedia maintains a public list of these patterns ("Signs of AI writing"), and a solid chunk of my feed is speedrunning it.

Here's what those patterns tell me. You saw a generated draft and posted it. You read 'leverage synergies' and hit publish. The writing isn't yours, and it looks like you never noticed.

If that's how you treat a post, I have to assume it's how you treat a pull request.

You skipped the whole job. The model hands you a draft. Your value is what you add on top: catching the bug it was confident about, throwing out the approach that looks clean but is quietly wrong.

Relay the output as is, and you've made yourself a hackathon GPT wrapper.

When Claude hands me a function, I rename its variables and hunt the edge case it missed. Then I cut half its comments.

You're the editor between the draft and the publish button.
Put the effort back in.

Anyway, enjoy the sunrise I did in Microsoft paint (no AI).

Drop the worst AI tell you've seen in comments; I'm collecting them for a Claude skill.

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