Reader, it didn't.

Mail sent to t20260617@foon.uk will reach me, but only for today.

So, any time I'm giving away my email address against my will, which is most of the time, they get to spam me for exactly one day.

It's lovely to see some Pratchett on HN, a nice chance to talk about our favourite Discworld books, but then the top comment is just some boring AI hater.

It's more like: Person: Finds the article beautifully written. Comments: Doesn't find the article beautifully written.

Now Comments looks less like an unreasonable control freak and more like they're just someone who has different ideas about what's beautiful.

It's a good point, and one I hadn't considered.

1. Pick an author nerds like.

2. Tell Claude "Write an article about Terry Pratchett, in his style."

3. Don't even fix the faux-witty phrases that, upon closer inspection, make zero sense, like "Sir Terry Pratchett, who knew more about furniture than most", or "Most physics departments would settle for that." or "The Author, refusing to let the Narrator off the hook".

4. Bask in the praise for your wonderful writing.

It's full of attempted Pratchettisms that, if you're paying attention, make no sense.

It's on a blog where almost every post is about AI.

It's the opposite of Terry's warm, intelligent, humanist writing and an insult to his name.

> And then there are the memories [...] that arrive uninvited, settle in, and start terrorising the other occupants by kicking over the chairs.

> Sir Terry Pratchett, who knew more about furniture than most, put it this way:

> "Rincewind tried to force the memory out of his mind, but it was rather enjoying itself there, terrorizing the other occupants and kicking over the furniture."

He "put it this way", in the exact same words you just used? Also, he knew more about furniture than most? What? Why?

> "Mathieu and I had read every Pratchett the school library would admit to owning, plus several it would not."

This has the cadence of a witty sentence unless you're paying attention and realize it makes no sense.

> “In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”

> Nine words. A complete cosmology. Most physics departments would settle for that.

It's eight words, and the thing about physics departments makes no sense.

> The Author, refusing to let the Narrator off the hook.

Again, cute sentence, unless you're paying attention and you realize it doesn't mean anything.

I imagine these people were delighted when a Big Computer Company offered to step in and design a curriculum for them.

When I use them myself, I just see them crushing it and think, this thing is now doing my job for basically $0, I am no longer economically relevant. But I've spent a lifetime learning to program, so it's possible I only get good results because of the way I think to prompt it.

I really can't get the outside view so I can't decide whether AI is going to make me homeless or not. I think we need the videos.

Good read!

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