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Most often, what is happening is that people are groundlessly accusing others of writing AI slop.
by gpvos 6mo ago
Most often, what is happening is that people are groundlessly accusing others of writing AI slop.
- twoodfin 6mo agoThis is 100% AI slop. It’s really not obvious to you? Look at the rest of this blog: https://piechowski.io/post/ https://piechowski.io/post/ Almost no posts since 2020, then a swarm of LLM-style clickbait titles… Oh wait, the 2020 one also has a clickbait title… and it was substantially rewritten in 2026!!
- alexhans 6mo agoI'd be curious to see if my blog posts/titles feel like AI slop to you. https://alexhans.github.io/ https://alexhans.github.io/ No need to read them, just a vibe check would be insightful. It's weird how branding, even before AI had a lot of the same catchy patterns, and now it's hard to define what is the right prose (engineers might want one thing and other role families others) and sometimes you're trying to write almost with the "everyone else bag in mind" because that's the personal connections you link your "here's what I often repeat in written form".
- twoodfin 6mo agoNo, they don't, and I don't try to judge a book by its cover, anyway. TBC, I don't dislike LLM-written articles because I think the author is being lazy, and I can even live with the LLM-isms. I dislike LLM-written articles in the main because they're lousy at serving their purpose of communicating some interesting human thought to other humans. They are very good at creating the illusion that's what's happening, hence all the upvotes.
- gpvos 6mo agoWow, what an air of superiority.
- twoodfin 6mo agoYes, my opinion is that the average highly upvoted deep dive technical article on HN was substantially better in 2023 than in 2026. I also believe that the bulk of that degrade is due to frontier LLM’s currently being poorly trained to write such articles well, given whatever scale & sophistication of prompts the typical author is using. Not to say they won’t be better someday (soon?)
- gpvos 6mo agoMaybe it is. But the comments complaining about it are worse than the posts themselves. And as I wrote, many of them are wrong. Downvote or ignore, and move on, please.