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The overview paragraph needs to be expanded quite a bit. The only operative phrase about how this thing works is "By recalling query-specific clues". I think people need a bit more knowledge about what this is and how this works, in an overview, to get them interested in trying it. Surely we can be a bit more specific.

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I think leaving just an overview in the repository is fine considering they've released a paper describing it in detail (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.05591, linked in the README).

Sure an "overview" is fine. However 4 words of meaningful content isn't an overview. The overview contained no meaningful content regarding whatever it is they claim to have done.

It reads like an LLM wrote it. Word salad that waffles on without any substance. In fact I think an LLM wrote most of the README. There are the telltale bullet points with bold starting words for example.

> There are the telltale bullet points with bold starting words for example.

Is this where we're at now, really? Basic markdown formatting is a telltale sign that something was written by AI?

Basic markdown formatting, no. But using bullet points with bold starting words, after a really waffly introduction makes it more likely they just asked an llm to write it.

I think lots of modern writing apps allow people to let AI "reword" their own content, into better sentence structures, etc. I'm fine with that actually. Doesn't mean the AI invented the content itself.

If only the AI could get to the point quickly instead of running its mouth on and on...

your examples are all telltale signals an LLM DID NOT write this text, to be fair

You need to spend more time getting LLMs to write documentation. Without examples of how you want it to do it, it defaults to word salad that sounds impressive on the surface, but doesn't really say anything. And it very commonly uses bullet points with a few starting words bolded. At least in my experience.

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