I found a big part of the appeal with tools such as Excalidraw is that people are still more willing to engage with your content because they think that its made by hand.
replyCompare a piss-tinted LLM-generated diagram with 80 pipes, flows and generic names everywhere to a seemingly hand-drawn sketch.
I have had my Exaclidraw connected to an agent through their MCP and I have gotten way more attention/time/reads on both blogs and papers because of the illusion of being human-made/hand-drawne making it more palatable.
‘I found a new way of wasting people’s time with my slop’ god this is bleak.
replyAttention is the only currency when you have free information generation. Take it with whatever means, or someone else will.
replyThe mindset that "everyone else is doing it" or "if I don't do it someone else will" is common amongst psychopaths and it reveals a deep cynacism and lack of consciousness. Often, the person is wrong as well.
replyThis is close to saying LLM users are psychopaths.
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replyI don't remember who said it, but someone mentioned that mathematics papers don't read well because the models don't know which parts to emphasize and which parts to gloss over. I would imagine similar tendencies here.
replyYeah I tend to make my diagrams either as I go, as exploration, or after I'm done figuring things out as a summarizing artifact (and agents are great at using Mermaid to do that second one).
replyYes I agree! Drawing helps me think.
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