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Yeah even if the software is good there's just something sad about realizing you're reading AI generated text. Even if its proofread and factually correct it just comes across as cheap and low effort, moreso when the content gets duplicated in a pointless FAQ that just restates everything you just read

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> Comes across cheap

Given this is open-source, have you considered contributing a more expensive-feeling landing page? Or, donating to finance the project?

I would rather it feel dev-cheap than corpo-cheap. Throw your MD doc into a basic CSS reset/theme, with a github and download link.

Lol that's a good one. AI slop is the least likely way to make me open my wallet.

>Even if its proofread and factually correct it just comes across as cheap and low effort

How so?

It just feels hollow and cheap.

The FAQ technique is LLM/SEO crumbs because people usually search for questions, if you have the exact likely question text that maps to user's search you're more likely to rank. It's unfortunate but it works, like open mouth YouTube thumbnails.

It’s still hollow and cheap. I closed those sites immediately even before LLMs. You need to pay me to waste my time, not the other way around. Even if that’s using your then not-so-free app.

That’s not feedback, just a non-constructive opinion. As someone else wrote above, if you’re so precious about it then help out the devs of the project and submit design PRs.

This is absurd. No one has an obligation to help anyone nor do they owe you any standard of help. Opinion on quality of output is constructive to the wise and an opportunity to scream "If you can do better than do it" for the small minded.

Here is a constructive one then: delete it. It’s better for everyone. If I want to read AI slop about your open source code, I can ask LLMs directly. It’s cheaper for you, and everybody.

It indicates that the author likes to take shortcuts and avoid work.

This is a pathetic take. 1) Life is short and shortcuts and avoiding work are not inherently the wrong path to take. 2) Is the code you've almost certainly had an LLM write for you in the past a sign that you have low moral character and let yourself down by taking shortcuts and avoiding work too?

The best devs I ever worked with are the ones that liked to 'take shortcuts and avoid work'.

Most productive isn't necessarily the same as "best".

Does he need to write his own HTML in notepad? Using any kind of template is a shortcut and avoiding work.

Because it is cheap and low effort.

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