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I think I'm going to puke if I see one more "It's not X. It's Y." phrase or the word "load-bearing" used metaphorically.
by Sharlin 5mo ago
I think I'm going to puke if I see one more "It's not X. It's Y." phrase or the word "load-bearing" used metaphorically.
- baal80spam 5mo agoManagers in my org love using it in "their" Slack messages.
- criley2 5mo agoI've come to realize that folks are including "ai-slop" in their ~public use of AI to intentionally signal to others that they're using AI. To some, that signal results in revulsion. To others, that signal results in approval. In my opinion, the approval signal comes from investors, board members, c-suite, and now management. They want us to use AI? Let's make sure they know we are.
- ai_slop_hater 5mo agoI used to think that signalling that I am not using AI would be a good thing, and that people would appreciate that, but now all my public profiles are AI.
- cbold 5mo agoIt is not human language. It's AI slop!
- d1l 5mo ago[dead]
- the_gipsy 5mo agoIt's not metaphorical. It's load-bearing.
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- greesil 5mo agoServer load, for sure.
- phendrenad2 5mo agoIf you want the belt-and-suspenders version, it's both.
- moffkalast 5mo agoLoad bearing slop phrases, you're touching up on something real!
- knollimar 5mo agoload bearing has snuck into my vocabulary, but I work with construction workers so it's slightly more intuitive I guess? :/
- Polizeiposaune 5mo agoI definitely heard it semi-frequently from SRE types well before the rise of LLMs. LLMs are just parroting relevant documents they've assimilated.
- radicalbyte 5mo agoIt's so obvious that they've been trained on a metric shit-tonne of white papers and corporate emails it's not even funny.
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- cpeterso 5mo agoOr describing something as “the unlock”.
- moffkalast 5mo agoThis is key. /s
- HarHarVeryFunny 5mo agoI guess the good news may be that if/when there is a major pricing correction, that many of the people using free or $20/mo subscriptions to generate social media commentary may balk at the real cost and go back to writing it themselves. One can at least hope.
- GolfPopper 5mo ago>if/when there is a major pricing correction Github Copilot moves to usage-based billing in two weeks.[1] 1. https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/github-copilot-is-moving-to-usage-based-billing/ https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/github-copilo...
- radicalbyte 5mo agoSomething I have noticed is that the people who are using it to write everything are the same people who had a poor level of English writing a year or two ago. It's just "intellectual" botox.
- visarga 5mo ago> It's just "intellectual" botox. Could be just ESL, it's hard to close the proficient to native gap.
- blharr 5mo agoI've never had a problem with direct translation... but the 3 paragraph choppy structure with subheadings full of AI-isms is not ESL users using it faithfully
- radicalbyte 5mo agoThe people I've seen are English / American and monolingual.
- HarHarVeryFunny 5mo agoWould make sense ... writing is a skill, and one that I think most people are proud of if they are good at it. Maybe it's different if you are doing technical/commercial writing, but for social media where you are writing for fun, and to express yourself, it'd be odd to let AI be your voice unless you realize your own writing is very poor.
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- chandureddyvari 5mo agoor the word 'canonical'
- oldsecondhand 5mo agoOr they're a prolog programmer.
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- captn3m0 5mo agoX is the adjective framing.
- StarlaAtNight 5mo agoThanks for calling that out. I went through and extracted a good handful of those. It’s not a short list. It’s a handful. “”” The subsidy era is not winding down gracefully. It is showing cracks everywhere. … the question is not whether they got a good deal. The question is how long that deal survives. … A developer running three or four concurrent coding agents is not consuming 3x or 4x the tokens of a chat conversation. It is an order of magnitude more … These are not experiments anymore. They are load-bearing workflows. … That is not a rounding error. That is a line item that needs its own budget code. “””
- mancerayder 5mo ago"Thanks for calling that out"? That's what Claude and ChatGPT tell me a few times a week. You're absolutely right to call that out. Let me restate that with the correct assumptions and that feedback, honestly and directly...
- lezojeda 5mo ago[dead]
- GeoAtreides 5mo agoplease stop giving hints on LLM writing markers, let's not do their adversarial training for free
- DaSHacka 5mo agoAI companies are more than aware of those telltale signs by now though
- sota_pop 5mo agoI have been saying this and viscerally reacting to this “contrastive language” for months. it… “hits different”… “Load-bearing” is a new one for me though, yuck.
- jameshart 5mo agoI hate it. This article starts off well! There is data and it seems well argued, but then halfway through, there it is: example of trend. Another example. Third example. It’s not just X – it’s Y. It’s as jarring as getting halfway into a well written article, clicking a link to a source, and getting rickrolled. It’s all you can do to not let it distract you from the fact that in 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table.
- gjvc 5mo agowitness the first signs of AI fatigue
- Sharlin 5mo agoBased on the number of upvotes my comment has received (70+ as of now), it's nowhere near "first signs" any more, and hasn't been in a while.
- mattas 5mo agoThis is the real unlock.