Re:Show HN: Write It Down – Personal finance tracker
by latexr on Monday October 06, 2025 @09:48AM
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> It's grammatically correct. It's readable.
It’s overly verbose. It’s repetitive. It’s boring. It doesn’t flow right.
If people don’t want to read what you wrote about your product, they won’t use (let alone pay for) your product. Pointing out bad copy is perfectly valid and helpful criticism.
Re:Show HN: Write It Down – Personal finance tracker
by LarsenCC on Monday October 06, 2025 @10:20AM
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Will take this feedback! Thanks.
Re:Show HN: Write It Down – Personal finance tracker
by latexr on Monday October 06, 2025 @10:23AM
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To be clear, I wasn’t directly criticising your post, just answering the question of the “problem with "AI-sounding" writing”.
Re:Show HN: Write It Down – Personal finance tracker
by FooBarWidget on Monday October 06, 2025 @10:17AM
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If verbosity, repetitiveness, boring and flow are the problem, then just call those out. No need to blame it on AI. Humans don't write perfectly.
Seriously. Is there any problem with "AI-sounding" writing? It's grammatically correct. It's readable. The only issue I can possibly think of is that you perceive AI negatively, and that you project this negativity onto everything that tangentially touches AI.