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surprisetrex — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 09:28:13 +0000

Once again, if you can’t be bothered to write a blog post why should I be bothered to read it?

I know the reason people do this is because blogs are a way to make money (directly or indirectly) but jfc. I tuned out at “and the uncomfortable truth”.

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surprisetrex — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 18:02:35 +0000

Honestly yeah, the Google Doc has all of the relevant info in it and is about 1/4 the length.

The LLM doesn’t know anything you didn’t tell it about this scenario, so all it does is add more words to say the same thing, while losing your authorial voice in the process.

I guess to put it a bit too bluntly: if you can’t be bothered writing it, what makes you think people should bother reading it?

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surprisetrex — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 15:58:53 +0000

I'm actually not so sure that LLMs are good at knowledge regurgitation. They're good at generating text that semi-plausibly looks like knowledge regurgitation (which may or may not be incomplete or wrong).

See the recent Google AI Summary mishaps for some good examples of this.

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surprisetrex — Sat, 13 Mar 2021 20:19:38 +0000

This is something that could be useful for guild pastebins etc imo, are there plans to filter access by specific roles as well?