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This is absurdly well written. I don’t know how someone takes the familiar anxiety around AI replacing developers and turns it into something this beautiful an

by jdw64 6mo ago

This is absurdly well written. I don’t know how someone takes the familiar anxiety around AI replacing developers and turns it into something this beautiful and funny. Once again, the programming industry has robbed literature of a potential Nobel Prize candidate.

jeromechoo 6mo ago
> You knew. And you signed off anyway. Because the alternative was losing the job, and the job was the mortgage, and the school fees, and the visa, and the version of yourself who'd fix it later once things stabilized. I felt the pang in my bones reading this. All of us peons are just wading through this brave new world trying to do what we know is right but ultimately having no choice but to give in to life's needs.
- jdw64 6mo ago
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pona-a 6mo ago
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- jdw64 6mo ago
  You may be right. But this feeling is mine. Haha.
- tyg13 6mo ago
  26% AI generated? What does that even mean? How is Pangram arriving at that figure?
  - pona-a 6mo ago
    26% of the sentences tripped the detection threshold for their classifier. That isn't a detection probability on the entire text.
- idle_zealot 6mo ago
  Can we not pretend that AI can meaningfully classify whether something was written by AI?
- grvdrm 6mo ago
  If it’s Claude - I’d love to see the prompts. This doesn’t read like AI to me. Lots of active voice. Shorter sentences. Not saying those are signals of human writing but in my experience AI writing is verbose.
  - pona-a 6mo ago
    26% isn't high and it's concentrated towards the end, so it could be the author just used it to revise some later paragraphs.
- physPop 6mo ago
  26% means not ai 3/4 times...
- loktarogar 6mo ago
  Would you accuse someone of murder with 26% matching evidence?
grahamjperrin 6mo ago
> anxiety around AI replacing developers For the benefit of people who don't absorb the entire article (spoiler alert): >> … AI didn't take our jobs. Greed did. …
dktp 6mo ago
As another commenter implied, the title a reference to this - https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks. Which is an incredible read as well

by jdw64 6mo ago

jeromechoo 6mo ago

> You knew. And you signed off anyway. Because the alternative was losing the job, and the job was the mortgage, and the school fees, and the visa, and the version of yourself who'd fix it later once things stabilized. I felt the pang in my bones reading this. All of us peons are just wading through this brave new world trying to do what we know is right but ultimately having no choice but to give in to life's needs.

jdw64 6mo ago
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pona-a 6mo ago

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jdw64 6mo ago
You may be right. But this feeling is mine. Haha.
tyg13 6mo ago
26% AI generated? What does that even mean? How is Pangram arriving at that figure?
- pona-a 6mo ago
  26% of the sentences tripped the detection threshold for their classifier. That isn't a detection probability on the entire text.
idle_zealot 6mo ago
Can we not pretend that AI can meaningfully classify whether something was written by AI?
grvdrm 6mo ago
If it’s Claude - I’d love to see the prompts. This doesn’t read like AI to me. Lots of active voice. Shorter sentences. Not saying those are signals of human writing but in my experience AI writing is verbose.
- pona-a 6mo ago
  26% isn't high and it's concentrated towards the end, so it could be the author just used it to revise some later paragraphs.
physPop 6mo ago
26% means not ai 3/4 times...
loktarogar 6mo ago
Would you accuse someone of murder with 26% matching evidence?

grahamjperrin 6mo ago

> anxiety around AI replacing developers For the benefit of people who don't absorb the entire article (spoiler alert): >> … AI didn't take our jobs. Greed did. …

dktp 6mo ago

As another commenter implied, the title a reference to this - https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks. Which is an incredible read as well