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Quin Mar 3

@fireborn Out of curiosity, What LLM helped you compose this? Editing to be clear that I'm not against AI writing at all, but this is pretty obvious and I'm curious on your tools.

@TheQuinbox I used Claude 4.6 to grammer check and typo check, mostly because I was wviting on my phone. I did notice it stripped out my seperators, which I'm not thrilled about and clearly didn't proof read hard enough.

@fireborn @TheQuinbox huh. the whole flow feels very Claude, but that might just be convergence between your writing style and Claude's

@freya @TheQuinbox I was so incredibly pissed off at all these purely fundimental issues that I was experiencing. I was also tought, long before the advent of AI, that if you want to make a point and really make it understood, you lead with any possible counters or deflections.

I used to be far worse at appearing like an LLM, overuse of bold, ithealic, and blockquotes.

interesting observations though; maybe I should change up how I write to make people less wary of engaging with it.

Simon Jaeger Mar 4

@fireborn @freya @TheQuinbox I also find myself writing so much like an LLM that I've been asked if something I wrote 100% by hand, without so much as a grammar suggestion from Claude, was written by AI. The person who asked me was my supervisor for several years before that, and we have a good working relationship. I just ... write like an AI, apparently. I also just really enjoy the way Claude writes when you give it a bit of creative freedom, and i'm sure that if I were to put up a blog now, people would suspect me of using Claude far more than I actually would.
All this to say, write however you like; use whatever you use. i'm fairly sure the ideas are still your own. And if i'm wrong about that, I'm honestly just more impressed with Claude.
"It failed with such consistency, such total and unbroken commitment to not working, that at some point it stopped feeling like a bug and started feeling like a philosophy." ... is such a relatable and well-crafted line that I feel like I'm not going to be able to avoid writing something similar to it at some point in the future, because so much of modern tech feels exactly like that.

@simon @fireborn @TheQuinbox honestly well put. and I fucking knjow the vibe, where the failure modes stop being for a reason and start feeling like they were designed, intentionally,l to fail

Simon Jaeger

@freya @fireborn @TheQuinbox I've also had issues restoring one phone to another with Google backup, so I'm just convinced this entire thing is broken.
I feel very vindicated in spending way too much money on a OnePlus phone instead of getting the latest Samsung, so there's that.
I suspect the TTS issue was Vocalizer; I'm curious if I'm wrong. That's happened to me across multiple phones. I am sure it's CodeFactory's fault. Talkback can tell if an engine fails to load; it can't ell if the engine is just casually throwing away the strings because it has nothing to speak them through.

@simon @fireborn @TheQuinbox it was almost definitely vocaliser lol

@freya @simon @TheQuinbox it wasn't actually, it was acapella.

Quin Mar 4

@simon @freya @fireborn The worst part about code factorie's registration system isn't that they tell you that your license status has expired through TTS. It's that they *replace*! The entire message with it. They don't append or even prepend it, it just, gets, replaced. Fuck every bit of that user-hostility

@TheQuinbox @simon @fireborn ngl I'd love to see the blackberry tts engine ported to android, it's really nice to listen to

@TheQuinbox @simon @freya the new eloquence at least just prepends it. I did test this when my DNS solution decided to block the registration server.

Timothy Wynn Mar 5

@fireborn Yes, but it also doesn't read the entire string, just the first X characters. @TheQuinbox @simon @freya

aaron Mar 5

@twynn @TheQuinbox @simon @freya Yup, but that is at least better than swallowing the entire string.