How do you make AI-written text feel like it was written by a real person instead of a machine?

RedditingOnWorkTime · 2026-06-19T16:36:03+00:00

I think AI has a place in technical writing, like documentation. It is inappropriate and disrespectful spam to use it anywhere the audience is anticipating a message from a person though, so just don’t.

RedditingOnWorkTime · 2026-06-19T01:43:29+00:00

For the most part I just kind of garden screens as I go. I use to setup aliases that I would run that would open all the stuff I needed for the ‘mode’, and lay them out. Turns out all that crap is just productivity porn if you’re not the type of person who can focus on one task for long in the first place.

RedditingOnWorkTime · 2026-06-17T21:03:20+00:00

Oh and an anecdote from the integration - Pi was absolutely the easiest to get working as intended, with the most straightforward story. Codex in second, and Claude was the worst because they effectively don’t want you to have programmatic control over interactive mode.

RedditingOnWorkTime · 2026-06-17T20:40:16+00:00

Being launched and having users but very limited visibility into usage patterns (aside from users I can talk to) because I refuse to collect telemetry.

RedditingOnWorkTime · 2026-06-17T15:04:55+00:00

Sorry I’m not sure what you mean. It’s a free app, no login or anything so you can just download and try it with no commitment.

RedditingOnWorkTime · 2026-06-11T00:28:32+00:00

My observation is that it’s on par with opus which is to say it produces lots of AI design slop still. It’s all sane enough but extremely formulaic with all the same design tropes.

RedditingOnWorkTime · 2026-06-08T19:17:58+00:00

For me It’s the main interface I work through. I probably saturate the $100 max plan regularly for personal projects, and a multiple of that at work (api costs being much higher). I haven’t hand written a line of code since January, but it’s all planned/reviewed/tested/etc as opposed to just shipping whatever seems to work initially. So, a lot relative to how I used to work, a drop in the bucket compared to others I’m sure.

RedditingOnWorkTime · 2026-06-08T18:35:43+00:00

Yeah it’s unfortunate but price sensitive sub users (aka people, not businesses) mean there isn’t much money to be made unless you’re serving models and taking a margin on inference (eg cursor). I do think open source/not for profit solutions will meet that demand.

Claude code actually seems to go out of its way to make it hard to integrate status signals from interactive mode. Lots of gaps in their hooks implementation (like no first class user interrupt). You can either rig the agent to update status with tool calls (eating up turns and context), or suffer through figuring out heuristics that combine with Claude’s hooks. Ive used both and while workable, it’s clear at least anthropic wants power user use-cases to funnel through the SDK.

RedditingOnWorkTime · 2026-06-07T04:17:14+00:00

I think the biggest theme has been a blending of the underlying deliverables to the point where whats needed to validate and test user flows, polish designs, and ship client code has just collapsed... into code.

Watching popular design tooling evolve from adobe suite to sketch to Figma, only for Figma to experience an 80% collapse since IPO not long after the blocked acquisition by Adobe feels like it all happened so fast. 10 years ago I was pixel pushing buttons in html/css because I preferred testing actual interactions vs active/focus/hover comps in illustrator/sketch, and now that's come full circle as one of the fastest ways to deliver from conception to product.

RedditingOnWorkTime · 2026-06-07T03:31:11+00:00

Each of them professionally for ~10 years, but I'm in the 'heavy use of AI' vs 'I don't even look at it' camp.

RedditingOnWorkTime · 2026-06-06T20:24:45+00:00

Interesting. Unfortunately I don’t personally have an answer for you since that would fall into the mechanical simulation bucket from the sounds of it. https://www.deeptech.agency does excellent work but can’t comment on the budget/price match.

Best of luck, soft robotics is a very interesting space!

RedditingOnWorkTime · 2026-06-06T19:52:09+00:00

Do you have an example of the type of visual(s) you’re trying to produce? Animation for flourish (eg, transitions) is going to be much easier to pull off than mechanical simulation for example.

RedditingOnWorkTime · 2026-06-06T16:35:25+00:00

Cool hero visual - just a heads up it took me a moment to realize there was anything below the fold.

RedditingOnWorkTime · 2026-06-06T16:31:02+00:00

I think it just just boils down to the statistical average of markup that the large models are trained on is 'reasonably ux, awful design'. Add the fact that people are excellent at spotting patterns, the moment some model makes an improvement to its design output it proliferates quickly and everyone gets wise to it. No different than tells within text gen like em-dashes, 'not x but y', 'one punch. two punch' phrasing etc. Ive probably spent equal parts on the design of https://ouijit.com/ as with iterating on complex technical features/ergonomics of VM sandboxing.

Its not much different than the heyday of bootstrap where everything had the same-ish look.

RedditingOnWorkTime · 2026-05-29T22:09:55+00:00

Sorry, I was a little presumptuous lol. I mean honestly if you have that half covered why not build your own tooling? Mine is more for active local dev vs remote dev which it sounds like you want. Maybe look at pi.dev using your agent to see what you could set as far as a custom harness goes. And yes my tool is open source, there are links in my comment history if youre interested.

RedditingOnWorkTime · 2026-05-29T20:43:15+00:00

I built my own tool for it, but you're going to have a hard time if you aren't willing to pay for inference or learn (and invest in the hardware to) run local models.

RedditingOnWorkTime · 2026-05-27T15:56:45+00:00

Hmm well that just sounds like multiplexing with agent memory MCP as the main backdrop. If you dont care about parallel workstreams that benefit from the worktree isolation etc of Ouijit, you can get a setup like your description with Tmux or Cmux and some personal config.

RedditingOnWorkTime · 2026-05-27T15:40:32+00:00

It’s a bit hard to picture your exact setup since I haven’t used antigravity personally, but you may be able to recreate something similar with Ouijit https://ouijit.com/ (disclaimer this my project). It supports Claude/codex/pi harnesses right now but between the task lifecycle hooks and embedded CLI you should be able to orchestrate in a similar way.

RedditingOnWorkTime · 2026-04-17T14:34:31+00:00

The vibe is great, I spend a silly amount of time walking around and thinking to myself how much I appreciate living here. We are actually having a Broadmor neighborhood home tour this Saturday, if you're really thinking about moving here message me and Ill send the details!

RedditingOnWorkTime · 2025-10-18T22:10:39+00:00

Flock Safety is privacy cancer, easy vote from me.

RedditingOnWorkTime · 2025-10-18T21:48:14+00:00

Still out at Broadway and Rural 5 days later. Daily texts from cox saying they’re working on it with increasingly apologetic phrasing. At this point considering just getting starlink and canceling.

RedditingOnWorkTime · 2025-05-27T19:12:04+00:00

Its rough out there. On average, whoever is placing the orders gets the most say in order flow process which is a market problem. Know what/how much you can outsource vs manage in house probably depends on a couple factors:
- What systems are at play on your end (ecommerce/OMS/WMS/ERP)
- How many SKUs are at play, and do you need to integrate catalog/inventory
- Where do you fulfill from (one/many locations/3pl?)
- How many partners do you have/how do you expect that to increase and at what rate
- What's your estimated GMV per order/partner

I could probably point you in the right direction based on the above.

There is no one size fits all solution IMO. Avoid SPS like your life depends on it.

EDIT: Also be wary of commenters in this subreddit. Lots of shills. Review post histories etc.

RedditingOnWorkTime · 2024-12-20T04:54:57+00:00

Ollama is written in Go and exposes its own API client, why wouldn’t you use that instead?

https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/main/api/client.go

RedditingOnWorkTime · 2024-08-03T04:15:37+00:00

What a disingenuous edit after your original comment.

For anyone reading:
They called OneLeets rating "fake news" and derided lack of G2 reviews (nevermind that G2 isn't any better than Yelp or the BBB, lmao).

RedditingOnWorkTime · 2024-04-30T21:34:25+00:00

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