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This seems cool but man it's hard to get over the very, very obvious AI writing.
by dpe82 6mo ago
This seems cool but man it's hard to get over the very, very obvious AI writing.
- hedgehog 6mo agoIt's also a bit odd they don't mention column-oriented databases at all.
- zffr 6mo agoWhy would column-oriented databases be mentioned? My understanding is that these are typically used for OLAP, but the article seems to talk only about OLTP.
- SigmundA 6mo agoBecause there is a whole section that describes column based storage without mentioning that some databases have column based storage as an option.
- goalieca 6mo agoThis is one of the main problems I have with LLMs. It finds patterns in words but not content. I see this in code reviews and eventually outages. Something looks reasonable at the micro scale but clearly didn’t understand something important (because they don’t understand) and it causes a major issue.
- jandrewrogers 6mo agoModern database engines tend to use PAX-style storage layouts, which are column structured, regardless of use case. There is a new type of row-oriented analytic storage layout that would be even better for OLTP but it is not widely known yet so I wouldn't expect to see it mentioned.
- dpe82 6mo agoYeah that was my second thought. ECS' favoring of structs-of-arrays over traditional arrays-of-structs for game entities boils down to the same motivations and resulting physical layout as column-stores vs row-stores.
- positron26 6mo ago"very, very obvious" and yet so could be your comment or mine. Can we stop this kind of farming comment already?
- cwnyth 6mo agoWhen the AI-written articles stop, the comments calling it out will stop, too.
- devin 6mo agoNitpicking: Once articles which are _obviously_ AI-written stop, the comments calling it out will (should) stop. It is far more likely that AI-written articles will become harder to spot, not that they will stop being written.
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- nh23423fefe 6mo agovacuous falsity isn't an interesting case to examine
- 7bit 6mo agoMeans, the crying will never stop
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- positron26 6mo ago> calling it out Calling what out? Did we suddenly invent a durable Turing test that will last more than six months? (We didn't, but some people "just know") The only durable metric is if the article is good, if the ideas are good. Everything else is complaining about Bob Dylan's electric guitar.
- RugnirViking 6mo ago
- owlcompliance 6mo agoI occasionally read a geopolitics blog that is one of the top search results on Google. I honestly couldn't do it anymore. Every other subheading was something along the lines of, "The experts are saying about Ukraine--Without the Fluff".
- vanderZwan 6mo agoI'm not really seeing it tbh. I mean, maybe they used a chatbot to help them write it but I don't immediately feel like I'm reading padded slop without actual content, it's fairly to the point. I just clicked around on the blog to see if anything else feels like it, but it's mainly just very "prefab". That did teach me that the author apparently also worked on DOTS previously for Unity, so they at least have actual hands-on experience with game engines.
- Tossrock 6mo agoIf anything, this confirms it for me. On his about page, there's this: "Hi there, I am Loïc Baumann, I’m from Paris area, France I develop, since early 90s, first assembly, then C++ and nowadays mostly .net. My area of interest are 3D programming, low-latency/highly-scalable/performant solutions and many other things." Compare that style to what's in this most recent blog - mildly ungrammatical constructions typical of an ESL writer, straightforward and plain style vs breathless, feed-optimized "not x, but y", triplet/rule of three constructions, perfect native speaker grammar but an oddly hollow tone. Or look at this post from 2018: https://nockawa.github.io/microservice-or-not-microservice/ https://nockawa.github.io/microservice-or-not-microservice/ It's just radically different (at a concrete syntactic level, no emdashes). I'm sure he has technical chops and it's cool that he worked on DOTS, but I would bet a very large amount of money he wrote the bullet points describing this project and then prompted GPT 5.3 to expand them to a blog post to "save time".
- 7bit 6mo agoGet over it
- Tossrock 6mo agoI agree that this triggered my AI writing senses. Points in favor: - "It’s not an accident — it’s driven by the same physics." The classic "it's not x, it's y", with an em-dash thrown in for good measure - "Typhon brings these into the component storage model — not as bolted-on workarounds, but as first-class citizens." More "not x, but y", this time with a leading clause joined by an emdash - "Blittable, unmanaged, fixed-size, stored contiguously per type — that’s the ECS side." Short, punchy list of examples, emdash'd to a stinger, again typical of LLM writing - "Schema in code, not SQL. Components are C# structs with attributes, not DDL statements. Natural for game developers, unfamiliar territory for database administrators. If your team thinks in SQL, this is a paradigm shift." This whole mini-paragraph is the x/y style, combined with the triplet / rule-of-three, just at the sentence scale. And then of course, the stinger at the end. Definitive, no, but it certainly has a particular flavor that reads as LLM output to me.
- Lammy 6mo agoPoints against: “Two Fields, One Problem” :)
- potsandpans 6mo agoEvery top comment that I've read today is the same shit complaining about AI writing. At some point this is not positive for the community.
- archagon 6mo agoSorry — this community immune response is the future. Quit posting slop or get left behind.
- potsandpans 6mo agoAre you really sorry?