Am I weird for not wanting to read Claude-generated text any more? I tried to figure out what this app is about, but all the Claude verbal tics in the text turned me off and I stopped.
I’m on the same boat. I get why people do it. Writing prose is significantly slower than consuming it, but there’s still a part of me that thinks “if you didn’t think writing was a good use of your time, why would reading this content be a use of mine”. I don’t mind AI-assisted writing but it’s hard to know to how much human editing was involved when the text shows so many AI tells. Almost by definition, AI writing is average it’s hard to justify spending the time when there’s so much content out there.
As someone who has never used LLMs to write text, so am not familiar with the specific stylistic choices that any particular LLM likes, nothing in there seemed out of the ordinary for decent human writing.
Are you sure what caused you problems was LLM style rather than all the specialized music terminology?
My eyes glaze over pretty much immediately and I just close the tab no matter how interesting the subject of the writing sounded like it was going to be.
Not once did this pop on my radar as AI-generated. And if it is that’s fine, because it reads extremely clear and coherent to me.
Larger point: I am so sick of HN comment sections filling up with obligatory comments speculating about whether a post is AI-written.
At this point I don’t care. People now write with AI. If the writing is deficient in some way, then comment on that. At least that way the “writer” can steer the writing towards greater coherence.
It’s definitely got AI tells, and I understand the objection - it’s hard to tell the difference between slop (written without review or direction, meant to fill space or present a simulacra of information) and actual informational content. With this article, it was clear that the author wanted to describe what problems they had and how they overcame those problems, and it was concise and I could tell it was reviewed so the content seemed trustworthy to me. I understand that some people have pretty high standards - if you don’t have the time to type out all of the code yourself one character at a time, then write stylish, interesting prose about it one letter at a time, if all you want to do is solve interesting problems and communicate how you solved them, you should shut up until you get good. Me, I am also imperfect and lazy, so I don’t care to demand style points or demonstrations of perspicacity from others.
Thanks for posting this, OP, I thought it was interesting.
It's easy to tell imo in part because of how terse the sentences are:
`Obvious in hindsight.`
`The clock never jumps.`
`No lookahead, no undo.`
`A real kick pattern is not a clock.`
>Larger point: I am so sick of HN comment sections filling up with obligatory comments speculating about whether a post is AI-written.
Gotta disagree wholeheartedly with that - using AI to write for you is really fucking annoying as a reader. It screams to me that the "author" feels the reader's time is worthless, and it homogenizes language in a way that is troubling to say the least.
Author here. This came out of building an Android app where a generated
band follows a live e-drummer over USB MIDI, but the writeup is the
platform-agnostic part: why raw hits can't clock anything, why clock
division is causal but multiplication forces you to carry a tempo model,
and the "coasting" behavior that turned out to be the difference between
a follower that works in tests and one that works with an actual drummer.
Happy to answer anything about the tracker internals - onset weighting,
downbeat inference from accent patterns, or why the band schedules
against the clock's forecast instead of reacting to hits (keeps audio
latency out of the drummer's timing loop entirely).
This is why most modern music is played with a click track.
As an actual drummer, who has done studio work... this is not what it feels like at all.
I am not a musician but found this fascinating. Thank you for posting.
Am I weird for not wanting to read Claude-generated text any more? I tried to figure out what this app is about, but all the Claude verbal tics in the text turned me off and I stopped.
I’m on the same boat. I get why people do it. Writing prose is significantly slower than consuming it, but there’s still a part of me that thinks “if you didn’t think writing was a good use of your time, why would reading this content be a use of mine”. I don’t mind AI-assisted writing but it’s hard to know to how much human editing was involved when the text shows so many AI tells. Almost by definition, AI writing is average it’s hard to justify spending the time when there’s so much content out there.
“You didn’t write it, why should I read it?”
Seems like a perfectly reasonable stance.
As someone who has never used LLMs to write text, so am not familiar with the specific stylistic choices that any particular LLM likes, nothing in there seemed out of the ordinary for decent human writing.
Are you sure what caused you problems was LLM style rather than all the specialized music terminology?
I'm very sure, even the first two paragraphs reek of LLM. It's the style, not the content.
> Division is free, multiplication is prediction
I'm so tired
My eyes glaze over pretty much immediately and I just close the tab no matter how interesting the subject of the writing sounded like it was going to be.
Not once did this pop on my radar as AI-generated. And if it is that’s fine, because it reads extremely clear and coherent to me.
Larger point: I am so sick of HN comment sections filling up with obligatory comments speculating about whether a post is AI-written.
At this point I don’t care. People now write with AI. If the writing is deficient in some way, then comment on that. At least that way the “writer” can steer the writing towards greater coherence.
It’s definitely got AI tells, and I understand the objection - it’s hard to tell the difference between slop (written without review or direction, meant to fill space or present a simulacra of information) and actual informational content. With this article, it was clear that the author wanted to describe what problems they had and how they overcame those problems, and it was concise and I could tell it was reviewed so the content seemed trustworthy to me. I understand that some people have pretty high standards - if you don’t have the time to type out all of the code yourself one character at a time, then write stylish, interesting prose about it one letter at a time, if all you want to do is solve interesting problems and communicate how you solved them, you should shut up until you get good. Me, I am also imperfect and lazy, so I don’t care to demand style points or demonstrations of perspicacity from others.
Thanks for posting this, OP, I thought it was interesting.
It's easy to tell imo in part because of how terse the sentences are:
`Obvious in hindsight.`
`The clock never jumps.`
`No lookahead, no undo.`
`A real kick pattern is not a clock.`
>Larger point: I am so sick of HN comment sections filling up with obligatory comments speculating about whether a post is AI-written.
Gotta disagree wholeheartedly with that - using AI to write for you is really fucking annoying as a reader. It screams to me that the "author" feels the reader's time is worthless, and it homogenizes language in a way that is troubling to say the least.
If someone keeps serving feces, the right response isn't to complain about them complaining about having to eat crap.
thank you.
Author here. This came out of building an Android app where a generated band follows a live e-drummer over USB MIDI, but the writeup is the platform-agnostic part: why raw hits can't clock anything, why clock division is causal but multiplication forces you to carry a tempo model, and the "coasting" behavior that turned out to be the difference between a follower that works in tests and one that works with an actual drummer.
Happy to answer anything about the tracker internals - onset weighting, downbeat inference from accent patterns, or why the band schedules against the clock's forecast instead of reacting to hits (keeps audio latency out of the drummer's timing loop entirely).
You do sound a lot like an LLM lol
I’m curious if you compared this against Ableton’s “Tempo Follower” and had any algorithmic (or subjective) observations.
It was a good read. Thank you for your time.
Very cool! Thanks for sharing.
I feel like this is AI generated. Is this AI generated?