aaronMar 3

Day one with the Galaxy Z Fold 7. Setup was a disaster. Smart Switch didn't. TalkBack went silent. Samsung installed everything I told it not to.

This is why nobody upgrades their Android phone.

https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/galaxy-z-fold-seven-day-one-the-fold-has-arrived-setup-was-a-disaster-this-is-why-no-one-upgrades-their-android-phone/

#Samsung #GalaxyZFold7 #Android #TalkBack #Accessibility #Blind #tech #writing #blog #reviews

Galaxy Z Fold Seven Day One: The Fold Has Arrived. Setup Was A Disaster. This Is Why No One Upgrades Their Android Phone. — fireborn

Show threadQuinMar 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.
Show threadaaronMar 4
@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.
Show threadRa (Freyja) (it/its)𒀭𒈹𒍠𒊩Mar 4
@fireborn @TheQuinbox huh. the whole flow feels very Claude, but that might just be convergence between your writing style and Claude's
Show threadaaronMar 4

@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.

Show threadSimon JaegerMar 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.
Show threadaaronMar 4
@simon @freya @TheQuinbox the way I write might have something to do with this too. I draft something and then I listen to it with reader mode and then I listen to it again with Eleven Labs. I don't publish until it sounds correct and engaging with both.
Show threadAndre LouisMar 4
@fireborn @simon @freya @TheQuinbox You have the AI writing downpat. The groups of threes. I thought you maybe drafted a thing, then ran it through whatever you use. The threes thing is usually such a tell.
Show threadaaronMar 5
@FreakyFwoof @simon @freya @TheQuinbox Three just feels like the right number for adjectives/counterpoints. Maybe there's some reason behind that, I honestly don't know. Something psychological that better writers than me figured out and I've just mirrored because that is what felt right to do.
Show threadx0Mar 5
@fireborn @FreakyFwoof @simon @freya @TheQuinbox It was actually listed on Wikipedia's list of AI tells, I think called either the rule of three or the rule of thirds, though there's also something about photography involved in one of those. But of course, the AI only does it because it crops up in certain styles of writing. AI learned, in part, from professional writers and known styles.
Show threadaaronMar 5
@x0 @FreakyFwoof @simon @freya @TheQuinbox Again, I wonder if some of this has to do with my composition pipeline. Draft -> read with tts -> read with ElevenLabs (sometimes multiple times, with multiple voices). If it doesn't sound right with any of these, go back to drafting, reread with all of them over again.
Show threadx0
@fireborn @FreakyFwoof @simon @freya @TheQuinbox That likely is causing you to merge into the pathway that is used by editors for speeches to be given to the press, especially by political figures. It's meant to be said, punctuated, and have a flow that the audience is pulled along with. Transcripts of these speeches are of course online.
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Show threadaaronMar 5
@x0 @FreakyFwoof @simon @freya @TheQuinbox I fail to see how this is a problem, though. A lot of my readers are audio readers; I want it to sound good as well as read well.
Show threadx0Mar 5
@fireborn @FreakyFwoof @simon @freya @TheQuinbox Oh I wasn't saying it was a problem. It plays into that whole thing about it potentially being a complement. You've managed to, potentially by accident, harness the same technique used by people writing things for major press events.
Show threadaaronMar 5
@x0 @FreakyFwoof @simon @freya @TheQuinbox I do try to at least put my emotions into what I write, rather than assume the neutral tone of those sorts of speeches. I want people, whether reading visually, in Braille, or by audio, to feel what I was feeling in those moments.
Show threadRa (Freyja) (it/its)𒀭𒈹𒍠𒊩Mar 5
@fireborn @x0 @FreakyFwoof @simon @TheQuinbox and you do that quite well actually
Show threadx0Mar 5
@freya @fireborn @FreakyFwoof @simon @TheQuinbox Yep. There's definitely an element of connection in that. It's much more raw, it's not cleanly polished like most political theater.
Show threadaaronMar 5

@x0 @freya @FreakyFwoof @simon @TheQuinbox It's not supposed to be.

Of course, some pieces are going to be more polished than others; product reviews don't have the same tone as opinion pieces, security analysis is even more subjective than reviews, mathematical proof is... well. It's proof, no room for emotion there.

Show threadaaronMar 5
@x0 @freya @FreakyFwoof @simon @TheQuinbox I'm going to be publishing another post today, and I'm going to just write, read with Braille, then publish. I want to see the difference and see which people prefer.
Show threadAndre LouisMar 5
@fireborn @x0 @freya @simon @TheQuinbox Write how you want to write though, not how others do. It's your blog and your life and your experiences. People gonna read it anyway, and they don't dictate to you.
Show threadaaronMar 5
@FreakyFwoof @x0 @freya @simon @TheQuinbox I will, this is just an experiment to see how much my drafting pipeline actually does influence my writing, or if I would just write like that anyway.