How much of the disagreement here is thinking about “can people who know what to look for figure it out it easily” versus thinking about “can people who have just encountered this figure it out easily”?
At first, I didn’t know there were open and close blocks. I thought the AI content was one paragraph with an open but no close. When I saw the |o thing, I didn’t know it was a close until I read some comments and scrolled back up.
Now that I do know… I dunno, I think scanning for the font that indicates “this is the start of an LLM block” is harder for me than scanning for an open paren? But also, the LLM block in the post is taller than my normal browser window, so it might be the case that neither the opening nor the closing delimiter is on my screen.
I agree it’s tricky because you have to learn there is both an opening and a closing delimiter. I do think this is a thing people will figure out after a while, but is definitely an issue. I am pretty sure that’s not what Jim was commenting on though.
How much of the disagreement here is thinking about “can people who know what to look for figure it out it easily” versus thinking about “can people who have just encountered this figure it out easily”?
At first, I didn’t know there were open and close blocks. I thought the AI content was one paragraph with an open but no close. When I saw the |o thing, I didn’t know it was a close until I read some comments and scrolled back up.
Now that I do know… I dunno, I think scanning for the font that indicates “this is the start of an LLM block” is harder for me than scanning for an open paren? But also, the LLM block in the post is taller than my normal browser window, so it might be the case that neither the opening nor the closing delimiter is on my screen.
I agree it’s tricky because you have to learn there is both an opening and a closing delimiter. I do think this is a thing people will figure out after a while, but is definitely an issue. I am pretty sure that’s not what Jim was commenting on though.