Re:Show HN: The DNA of DOOM – How code structure survives ac...
by joe-esquibel on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @08:52PM
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Thanks for your time, yeah, I can totally see it now.
Re:Show HN: The DNA of DOOM – How code structure survives ac...
by syshyk on Thursday November 05, 2026 @03:06AM
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I'd rather see shitty copy from someone who knows what they're doing because article writing isnt their stength, than an AI write up. I don't think the latter will ever suit your audience.
One constructive point for you: don't even write the first draft of a document you want humans to read with AI. It's much harder to get the AI voice out than it seems. Stuart Halloway talked about this at the last Clojure Conj, and I couldn't agree more. It also makes it harder to follow the sage writing advice to minimize what you write.
"How code keeps its family resemblance" - AI would say this, a person would not. It's just noise on the page.
"Measure only their shape and you can still tell who copied whom" - this is a sentence structure Claude loves, but no human would talk about "measuring" shapes. The verbs and the nouns don't feel right.
Then you start a paragraph: "DOOM is the perfect place to test it." But you don't actually say what "it" is specifically. It doesn't seem like AI would write that though... Maybe you did in a later draft? It's hard to switch voices, like switching authors.
If you want people to read something, write it yourself.