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> No headers per element. No pointers. No jumping around the heap. that smells of AI [1], and thus lazy writing. I'm all in for using AI to help you write, but
by ericol 5mo ago
> No headers per element. No pointers. No jumping around the heap.
that smells of AI [1], and thus lazy writing. I'm all in for using AI to help you write, but if you don't put your voice to it then there's no reason to read it.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing#Rule_of_three https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing#...
- jeberle 5mo agoAlso, the images were ruinously far off from what they intended to convey. Dude, just draw a picture by hand & take a picture of it.
- ameliaquining 5mo agoThat particular section is indeed AI, though other parts of the article aren't: https://www.pangram.com/history/89b28cd1-58e6-4065-9f1d-111a700478f2 https://www.pangram.com/history/89b28cd1-58e6-4065-9f1d-111a...
- einpoklum 5mo ago> I'm all in for using AI to help you write Don't be all-in. It's important for humans to be able to write for themselves, and also to stand by what's been written in their name, which is much less likely if someone/something else has done the writing. (proofreading is another matter though.)
- sgt 5mo agoExactly! But AI is here to stay. Sooner or later, even comments on HN will be 100% AI generated. And we won't be here to read them - our AI agents will. /s
- Reason077 5mo agoThat’s right. Because at some point, the volume of AI-generated posts and comments on sites like Hacker News or Reddit will overwhelm the ability of humans to read them all. So the only reasonable way for humans to participate will be to have our own AI readers summarising them, and posting furiously on our behalf!
- zeristor 5mo agoI had that until I used Opus 4.8. It stopped being infuriatingly sloppy and took time to ensure the article had integrity. It did having said that I did burn through a lot of tokens trying to do a deep analysis cross data pipeline debug.
- rayiner 5mo agoYou see this in all the AI generated Tik Toks. What causes AI to use such a weird construction.
- ericol 5mo agoWait until in 5 year's time all kids speak in rule of 3
- slowmovintarget 5mo agoDidn't you know? Evenly divisible numbers are infelicitous. That's why Atevi don't use them in polite conversation.
- Cthulhu_ 5mo agoNot rule of one. Not of two. But three.
- wongarsu 5mo agoI learned that exact style of writing in a marketing workshop, pre-AI. It's effective, satisfying, and a random third thing I can't be bothered to come up with right now. As a proportion of all easily crawled text on the internet, a lot of it will be random marketing copy. That influenced the writing style of early AIs, and since then everyone has trained at least partially on transcripts from every other AI chatbot
- rayiner 5mo agoOh my god did we inadvertently train AIs on idiotspeak.
- LearnYouALisp 5mo agoIn-advert-ently?
- 12_throw_away 5mo ago> did we inadvertently train AIs on idiotspeak. Nope! That is - training on lowest-common-denominator, low-signal high-noise "idiotspeak" was not at all inadvertent.