I know this ship has probably sailed but the LLM cover text still feels off-putting to me, like you haven't considered my needs as a reader. I come away at the end with a feeling of "what is the project actually worth to you if you can't spend 5 minutes describing it?"
For example, saying "code available on GitHub, inviting community contributions and transparency." I know what GitHub is, I understand the benefits of having it there, it's just a waste of brain power to read the rationale written out in this way.
Similarly "Custom-designed font created by the developer to enhance the game’s unique style?" Ok, that's great, but do I really care about that specific detail? It sounds like there was a conversation with an LLM and then a request to regurgitate the information into marketing speak, without any consideration for the actual needs of the people being marketed to.
Again, I know I'm probably increasingly alone in this and I'll have to just get used to it, but as a lover of writing it feels like watching a tragedy play out in real time.
You definitely are not alone in feeling this way, it’s happening everywhere now and it’s driving me nuts too.
I have the same complaint at work, where coworkers are using it for writing pull request descriptions, and it pumps out slop buzzwords like “streamlined the documentation”. Like, you didn’t streamline anything, you ran prettier on a markdown file!
On top of this type of description being useless marketing jargon, the writing style risks to train future LLMs to devolve their writing styles further into this. More frighteningly, how long until the excess amount of LLM-generated slop text like this starts training future humans reading it? People tend to model how they speak off of what they hear and read, and it’s everywhere now.
> how long until the excess amount of LLM-generated slop text like this starts training future humans reading it
Not much. Add to it deference to technology and the innate preference for new stuff not liked by previous generations: sloppy LLM style will look more authoritative than well thought human style of parents and older siblings.
For example, saying "code available on GitHub, inviting community contributions and transparency." I know what GitHub is, I understand the benefits of having it there, it's just a waste of brain power to read the rationale written out in this way.
Similarly "Custom-designed font created by the developer to enhance the game’s unique style?" Ok, that's great, but do I really care about that specific detail? It sounds like there was a conversation with an LLM and then a request to regurgitate the information into marketing speak, without any consideration for the actual needs of the people being marketed to.
Again, I know I'm probably increasingly alone in this and I'll have to just get used to it, but as a lover of writing it feels like watching a tragedy play out in real time.