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Re:370 Books in 20 months: South African author defends her ... by philipwhiuk on Monday November 09, 2026 @07:02AM (#50424436)
> a true hacker in the HN sense of the word.

First, the societal view on HN-approved hackers is not always positive.

Second, society is bad at recognising systemic problems, that doesn't mean they aren't problems. Something with short term gain for long term harm is a particular problem for our society to handle.

> It is not like she is one-shotting books with a single prompt

It's not clear where she gets the original concept - maybe it's an original idea - fine. But maybe that's another few prompts. Which would make her little more than a meat proxy.

> she has a structured process starting from a human outline and ideas

It's not massively complicated though is it.

> plus human review at the end.

Yeah, it's the proofreaders having to work through hundreds of pages of slop I'm bothered about. Even if you assume the latest models are awesome it's not like this is Astra/frontier output is it?

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Re:370 Books in 20 months: South African author defends her ... by viraptor on Monday November 09, 2026 @07:08AM (#50424498)
> It's not massively complicated though is it.

Complicated enough that very few people have award winning stories. Not even books - you can write 5 great pages and get relatively well known. But apparently it's not that easy.

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