OK, don’t roll your eyes just yet…
I’ve been using LLMs (Claude and Jules) recently with several projects, and one of the tasks I set was to produce a nice microsite for the Americium library.
Now that started out OK, but some of the pages are a bit, well, you know, ‘imaginative and full of forward-looking statements’. I’ve labelled these pages with a bright red disclaimer section at the top telling the reader to be cowed (is that the correct translation of ‘caveat emptor’?), so my imaginary lawyer says it’s alright.
I’ve also taken the lovely hand-written prose that used to be on the project wiki and had that put into a subsection of the microsite as a more trustworthy alternative.
So I’m pondering this - should I carry on and cut over the dodgy parts of the microsite for the sake of sticking to the style it uses for the LLM-translated prose, or should I sack it all and stick with the hand-written prose?
If you’re interested, take a quick look at some random page or two in the ‘new’ part and the old Wiki subsection and let me know your first impressions - is the LLM style more readable, or do you prefer a more old-fashioned tone?
All are welcome to review, be they old hands at property-based testing or folk who have never heard of that technique.
The microsite: Home | Americium
The wiki subsection: Wiki Content | Americium
I can’t offer any inducement other than the chance to get to know the world’s best property based testing framework a little better. Caveat emptor.