Appears that the author got some help organizing the document, but wrote it all themselves.
replyHey, author here :)
replyIts at least 80% organic artisanal writing and maybe 20% AI when I needed help with grammar, completeness, broader perspective and everything around.
It may be a good idea to start the book with a really short "About the author" to state exactly this and your work experience. Otherwise looks well written to me, good job! :)
replyNative English speaker. I scanned it and IMO there's a slight overuse/misuse of hyphens. Maybe the AI tool could be asked to identify and correct? (The hyphens might be triggering people to think it's AI, too).
replyThey mostly need replacing with a full stop or a colon.
E.g.
"In practice this means storing the amount as an integer in its smallest unit - €12.34 becomes 1234"
->
"In practice, this means storing the amount as an integer in its smallest unit: €12.34 becomes 1234."
or
"In practice, this means storing the amount as an integer in its smallest unit (e.g., €12.34 becomes 1234)"
Hyphens here are meant to be formatting. You would be correct if this was a literary piece, but handbooks and sheets don't need to use these rules.
replyWhilst I wouldn't say anything in it requires years of experience to know, this would be helpful for someone who hasn't considered anything about monetary systems. It doesn't read like slop, but I could be wrong but even so it all seems fairly reasonable (I've only fully read about 50% before realising there's nothing new here for me, and then skimmed to rest).
replySkimmed it and based on my experience in fintech, it looks good, accurately represents the real world. I guess there’s still a chance it is AI generated but it doesn’t seem like vacuous slop, it has substance!
replyfrom the author's mastodon post [0]
reply I just published Fintech Engineering Handbook distilled from 6 years of tears, sweat and swears.
It’s a free ~25-page resource with various hints and patterns around handling money.
Tell me what you think!
[0]: https://mas.to/@krever/116814803588993437
[1]: https://github.com/Krever/fintech-engineering-handbook/commi...