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Hi Jake! Cool article, and it's something I'll keep in mind when I start giving my self-hosted setup a remodel soon. That said, I have to agree with the parent comment and say that the LLM writing style dulled what would otherwise have been a lovely sysadmin detective work article and didn't make me want to explore your site further.

I'm glad you're up to writing more of your own posts, though! I'm right there with you that writing is difficult, and I've definitely got some posts on similar topics up on my site that are overly long and meandering and not quite good, but that's fine because eventually once I write enough they'll hopefully get better.

Here's hoping I'll read more from you soon!



Thanks for the encouragement! I find it difficult to write articles beyond simply stating a series of facts.

I tried handwriting https://blog.jakesaunders.dev/schemaless-search-in-postgres/ bit I thought it came off as rambling.

Maybe I'll have a go at redrafting this tomorrow in non LLM-ese.


> I tried handwriting https://blog.jakesaunders.dev/schemaless-search-in-postgres/ bit I thought it came off as rambling.

There is nothing wrong with this article. Please continue to write as you; it's what people came for.

LLMs have their place. I find it useful to prompt an LLM to fix typos and outright errors and also prompt them to NOT alter the character or tone of the text; they are extraordinarily good at that.


This is much more pleasent to read and it gives a great insight into your actual thought process. Thanks for sharing and great writeup.




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