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Yeah fair, I asked claude to help because honestly this was a little beyond my writing skills. I'm real though. Sorry. Will change

Seconding what others have said about preferring to read bad human writing. And I don’t want to pick on you – this is a broadly applicable message prompted by a drop in the bucket – but please don’t publish articles beyond your ability to fact check. Just write what you actually know, and when you’re making a guess or you still have open questions at the end of your investigation, be honest about that. (People make mistakes all the time anyway, but we’re in an age where confident and detailed mistakes have become especially accessible.)
Just a data point - I would rather read bad human writing than LLM output
It still says Puppeteer in multiple places.
Hi Jake! Cool article, and it's something I'll keep in mind when I start giving my self-hosted setup a remodel soon. That said, I have to agree with the parent comment and say that the LLM writing style dulled what would otherwise have been a lovely sysadmin detective work article and didn't make me want to explore your site further.

I'm glad you're up to writing more of your own posts, though! I'm right there with you that writing is difficult, and I've definitely got some posts on similar topics up on my site that are overly long and meandering and not quite good, but that's fine because eventually once I write enough they'll hopefully get better.

Here's hoping I'll read more from you soon!

Thanks for the encouragement! I find it difficult to write articles beyond simply stating a series of facts.

I tried handwriting https://blog.jakesaunders.dev/schemaless-search-in-postgres/ bit I thought it came off as rambling.

Maybe I'll have a go at redrafting this tomorrow in non LLM-ese.

> I tried handwriting https://blog.jakesaunders.dev/schemaless-search-in-postgres/ bit I thought it came off as rambling.

There is nothing wrong with this article. Please continue to write as you; it's what people came for.

LLMs have their place. I find it useful to prompt an LLM to fix typos and outright errors and also prompt them to NOT alter the character or tone of the text; they are extraordinarily good at that.

This is much more pleasent to read and it gives a great insight into your actual thought process. Thanks for sharing and great writeup.

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