“This isn’t just an incremental update—it’s a fundamental shift in what’s possible with smaller models.”
The combination of the common AI-phraseology ‘This isn’t just __, it’s a ____’ along with the use of the em-dash led me to believe that there was AI-generated writing here
There have also been other posts on the Kilo blog that have the familiar AI ‘tourist website tone’
Apologies if my conclusion was unfounded or a bit gung-ho, I just enjoy the tool and was peeved not at a perception of AI-enhanced-writing (nothing wrong with that), just at perceived slop on the blog of a tool I enjoy
No worries, I appreciate the honesty! Could you point me to any other blog posts you've seen with this tone? We certainly don't want you to have this impression. I'm going to change that sentence right now btw.
You'll notice sentences like: "Which of these workflows do you think will result in an actual feature that works, and which one will resurrect a CoffeeScript image cropper from 2011, transpile it incorrectly to ES6 and define half the JavaScript variables as var?"; AI isn't that good at generating relevant dev humor :)
Please feel free to point me to any blog posts that use this "AI-generated-writing" tone.
lol for sure, and to be clear I don’t want to come across as like a ‘nitpicking client to be pleased’; I think I was just trying to express (in an admittedly twitter-reactionary kind of way) that a lot of the closed-source companies today have all mostly locked into this west-coast-corpo-speak tone in their product PR. If you’ve ever watched one of the OpenAI live streams you probably know the tone I’m talking about.
There’s a couple other posts on the blog with similar styles, I don’t want to link to anything just to finger point but; I think just as a personal preference as a foil to the San Fran aesthetic of closed companies today I (personally) enjoy seeing open-sourced tools have a bit more of a human touch to them. “Hi my name is Billy Bob and here is the superintelligence I built in my garage”
This is all very nitpicky especially because it’s nitpicking over PR aesthetics but mostly just comes out of a love of a certain image of OS I have in my head
At the end of the day PR is secondary to the tool, and I do very much appreciate what Kilo code does for the ecosystem
These updates are nice but y’all gotta stop writing it with (I’m assuming) Claude lol. Little human touch goes a long way
Curious, what made you think this was written with Claude?
“This isn’t just an incremental update—it’s a fundamental shift in what’s possible with smaller models.”
The combination of the common AI-phraseology ‘This isn’t just __, it’s a ____’ along with the use of the em-dash led me to believe that there was AI-generated writing here
There have also been other posts on the Kilo blog that have the familiar AI ‘tourist website tone’
Apologies if my conclusion was unfounded or a bit gung-ho, I just enjoy the tool and was peeved not at a perception of AI-enhanced-writing (nothing wrong with that), just at perceived slop on the blog of a tool I enjoy
No worries, I appreciate the honesty! Could you point me to any other blog posts you've seen with this tone? We certainly don't want you to have this impression. I'm going to change that sentence right now btw.
I agree with your comment that a little human touch goes a long way. For example, I published this blog post today: https://blog.kilocode.ai/p/spec-driven-development-what-it-is
You'll notice sentences like: "Which of these workflows do you think will result in an actual feature that works, and which one will resurrect a CoffeeScript image cropper from 2011, transpile it incorrectly to ES6 and define half the JavaScript variables as var?"; AI isn't that good at generating relevant dev humor :)
Please feel free to point me to any blog posts that use this "AI-generated-writing" tone.
lol for sure, and to be clear I don’t want to come across as like a ‘nitpicking client to be pleased’; I think I was just trying to express (in an admittedly twitter-reactionary kind of way) that a lot of the closed-source companies today have all mostly locked into this west-coast-corpo-speak tone in their product PR. If you’ve ever watched one of the OpenAI live streams you probably know the tone I’m talking about.
There’s a couple other posts on the blog with similar styles, I don’t want to link to anything just to finger point but; I think just as a personal preference as a foil to the San Fran aesthetic of closed companies today I (personally) enjoy seeing open-sourced tools have a bit more of a human touch to them. “Hi my name is Billy Bob and here is the superintelligence I built in my garage”
This is all very nitpicky especially because it’s nitpicking over PR aesthetics but mostly just comes out of a love of a certain image of OS I have in my head
At the end of the day PR is secondary to the tool, and I do very much appreciate what Kilo code does for the ecosystem
Appreciate your comments as well!