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Alas, it writes so much better than the average human that it's what everyone started using. Hence the utter familiarity and now contempt.

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I agree that it’s better at writing than a 50%-ile human, but it’s worse at communicating through writing than most humans.

Even an average human writer can communicate details much more succinctly and directly than an LLM

I think that’s true when you compare to the average white collar professional who does a lot of writing: better at writing, not better at communicating.

But compared to the average adult? I think you forget just how bad at writing the average person is.

Not at all. I think you have a mistaken view of who the average human is. They are terrible at turning their thoughts into written language. It's just nebulous clouds. Claude is like 75th percentile at communicating ideas.

No, it does not.

You are vastly overestimating the average writer’s ability.

Even then, I don't care about the "average writer". I want great output. I like to imagine that developers have some self-respect, but by now everyone in the industry is spending hundreds of hours every month reading some of the most poorly written prose we could imagine, simply because it affords us to think less.

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