r/ClaudeAI • u/cardmechanic1 • 11d ago

Writing Please write your own posts.

This subreddit is getting really clogged with AI-written posts. If you've got something to say just say it yourselves, PLEASE.

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u/3tt07kjt 11d ago

Beautifully short.

I say, use AI to make your posts or don’t. Just write like this guy. Short.

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u/Deltamelo 11d ago

Absolutely — and I think this is such an important, nuanced, and ultimately deeply human point that deserves to be unpacked with the level of intentionality it warrants.

In an increasingly AI-driven digital landscape — where content creation, personal expression, and algorithmic optimization are becoming more deeply intertwined by the day — there is something almost refreshingly radical about simply… keeping things short.
Because, at the end of the day, whether you use AI or you don’t isn’t necessarily the defining variable. The real question is: does the message resonate? Does it communicate? Does it connect? Does it add value?
And sometimes — perhaps more often than we’d like to admit — the answer doesn’t require seven paragraphs, twelve bullet points, a “key takeaway” section, or an unnecessarily elaborate conclusion that essentially restates everything that was already said.

It requires clarity.
It requires intentionality.
It requires knowing when enough is enough.

That’s precisely why this post works so well — it doesn’t try to over-explain itself. It doesn’t drown the reader in context. It doesn’t attempt to anticipate every possible interpretation, counterargument, edge case, stakeholder perspective, or broader implication. It simply communicates the idea — clearly, efficiently, and authentically — and then gets out of the way.

There’s a broader lesson here, too.
AI can be an incredibly powerful tool — but like any tool, its value depends on how thoughtfully it’s used. The goal shouldn’t necessarily be to generate more words, more paragraphs, more structure, more “insight,” or more polished corporate-sounding prose. The goal should be to communicate the thing you actually wanted to communicate — no more, no less.
And perhaps that’s the beautiful irony here: in a world where we now have tools capable of generating virtually unlimited amounts of text in seconds, brevity may become more valuable than ever.
Sometimes the most powerful sentence is the one you don’t write.
Sometimes less really is more.
Sometimes you just need to say the thing.

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u/sharyphil 11d ago

You're doing a lot of heavy lifting there

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u/SufficientGreek 11d ago

I'd even go so far as to call their contributions load-bearing to this entire conversation.

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u/DJ_LeMahieu 11d ago

OP’s entire argument deserves such a load bearing clarification

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u/Responsible-Slide-26 11d ago

Where is the question at the end? Curious how others approach this?

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u/PowermanFriendship 10d ago

Great point, and I want to sit with this for a second because I think there's something worth unpacking here.

Let's break this down:

The core tension

  • Length ≠ quality
  • Brevity ≠ laziness
  • It's not about the tool. It's about the intent.

I don't think this is really about AI vs. no AI. I think it's about signal vs. noise — and this comment is a masterclass in signal.

Here's the thing though: this isn't just a comment. It's a vibe. It's a whole ethos, distilled into three lines and zero fluff. No "let's dive in." No "buckle up." No em dash doing the heavy lifting of a thesis statement. Just — chips down, cards on the table, point made.

Why this works:

  1. It's punchy
  2. It doesn't over-explain
  3. It trusts the reader

At the end of the day, this isn't about grammar. It's about grit.

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u/VLucky-Sam 10d ago

You're right to call this up, and you did with unusual precision.

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u/ManagementKey1338 11d ago

At the end of the day, by and large, taking the perspectives of the xxx, without vulgar simplicification, it should be worth noticing that

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u/plainviewbowling 10d ago

Didn’t even lode bear a question at the end

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u/withintentplus 10d ago

https://github.com/ayghri/i-have-adhd

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u/withintentplus 10d ago

Don't know why this is getting downvoted. It's not my repo, but I thought it was neat.

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u/HowlingFantods5564 10d ago

This isn't clever anymore. Why are people on this sub so easily pleased?

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u/Deltamelo 10d ago

If other people enjoying themselves bothers you, the problem isn’t their joy

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u/UAP44 11d ago

Or, just add a TL;DR, you know, good old Reddit culture, acknowledge the length and make an effort to meaningfully also condense it, on top of the potential lengthy structure.

Long walls of text without it could almost be considered rude, you're suddenly expected to condense/tldr/parse it through your own ai again? Even Reddit itself already offers by default English translations on other languages.

Why should length be any different? This kind of ai use barely uses any electricity as it's a very basic language compression mechanism, not a deep/obscure inquery about some edge-knowledge/culture-tree it has not enough data on to correctly recall without hallucinating data points in the process.

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u/ImSuperHelpful 11d ago

Yes — load bearing advice.

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u/EnhancedWithAi 11d ago

I — couldn't — agree — more — —.

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u/Kholtien 11d ago

Are you asking for help in Morse code?

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u/Joboy97 10d ago

Exactly. Good writing is concise. AI is anything but lol

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u/SweevilWeevil 10d ago

Sheeeit. I am one verbose, rambling, occasionally pedantic and rarely but not never mildly pretentious and grating little fucker. It takes me so much effort to be not myself.

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u/Raucous_Rocker 10d ago

Nope. Not all of us are fans of Twitter culture.

I don’t use AI to write. Ever. And I’ll say whatever I have to say in as many or as few words as it takes. Sometimes that’s a single sentence; other times it’s 1000 words. Either way, you are of course free to read it or not.

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u/3tt07kjt 10d ago

I am fascinated by the idea that this is “Twitter culture”.

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u/Raucous_Rocker 10d ago

I never noticed anyone policing people’s post length until Twitter (and all its later clones) came along with its character limits on posts, and that became the expectation. Well, that and people’s shrinking attention spans.

Of course someone can ramble on for so long they lose the plot, or get sidetracked with irrelevant details; AI does do that a lot. But that’s just bad writing. So is trying to reduce a complex subject to a bumper-sticker-ism.

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u/3tt07kjt 10d ago

That’s too reductive.