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Yes, it takes a month or two.

Depends on the project.

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People manage to write 500 word essays in school in a few days just fine, but writing a website landing page suddenly takes two months?

According to wordcounter.net, this landing page has 850 words. Most of that is just LLM fluff that could easily be removed, but even if you want to keep the original size, to spend two months on this you have to be writing less than 15 words a day.

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> People manage to write 500 word essays in school in a few days just fine, but writing a website landing page suddenly takes two months?

What the h... I mean, it's an opensource software to make Logitech's users life less miserable, and you are comparing that to the effort of a student writing an essay, where their only or main job during those days is writing the essay?

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> where their only or main job during those days is writing the essay?

Writing 850 words shouldn't take you two months even if you only have 10 minutes a day to spend on it.

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It’s different. You can’t measure it by word count.

I’ve thought “hey I’ll just throw together this 5 page website on Squarespace, it’ll take a week at most” and despite only having like 5000 words it can take over a month. When you see how slowly it’s coming together it really destroys your motivation as well.

The words depend on the layout. The layout depends on the words. It all depends on art, and call to action, and SEO, and mobile responsiveness, and…

You can spend like an hour tweaking one hero sentence. It’s a lot more complicated then what we did in school, ie “Atticus Finch defends Tom Robinson, a Black man falsely accused in a racist town, knowing he will lose.”

If you had to write those 18 words on a website it’d probably take half a day to decide how you wanted to write them, and where you wanted to put them.

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But the discussion is about AI-generated text, not the website. It's totally possible to AI generate a website design and then write the text on it yourself.
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For some of us writing good text takes a lot of time and effort.
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It's just a bit of text for a website that describes what a product does, what features it has, and maybe an FAQ. It shouldn't take you long. For something like this you can even start with LLM text and then rewrite it in your own words and it will sound much better .
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Having had to edit the documentation from native English speakers in the past, rewriting "in their own words" made it unclear, way too detailed about unnecessary options, and badly formed sentences.

The average person cannot write good documentation (or website copy). It's an actual skill to learn how to phrase things, ensure that the documentation delivers the right level of detail to the different reader types etc.

As English writers, software developers make great programmers, not authors.

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Saying that the average person can't write good documentation or copy means nothing when the LLMs can't write good documentation or copy either. I'd rather have crappy human written docs than the LLM word salad. For example,

> A background watcher reads the foreground app's identifier once per second; when it changes, the overlay you authored for that app is layered on top of the device's global bindings, with per-app entries winning and any unlisted button falling through to the global map.

as is in the documentation right now could have just read

> Your device will automatically use app-specific keybinds when a given app is in focus.

So much of the documentation copy especially is typical of the ways LLMs leak implementation instructions into their written copy.

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Perhaps you can offer your time to proofread the website?
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If you never take the time, of course it will always be a lot of effort. But with experience it’ll take less time and effort.
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That is true but maybe not the thing I want to work on, so much other things to spend my limited time on.
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Then throw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing into your context and call it a day. there is no excuse for not proof-reading what you expect others to read.
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But isn’t that still AI-slop?
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I think you'll find it's mostly effort.
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