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- mh2266 3mo agoI fed it into Pangram and it came back as "70% AI generated". I do feel it's better than some of the pure slop out there, but it still feels pretty sloppy. And I know that this author can write, so if this really was partially done with AI, it's disappointing.
- svat 3mo agoI think it's the latter. I find the introduction (written by Kent Beck) easier to understand than the rest of the article (which he says is AI-written: "genie-generated description of YAGNI"). In particular writing like this is just annoying: > Perfect foresight doesn’t save you, because the discounting doesn’t care whether you were correct. It cares that you sequenced the cost ahead of the return. The gap between the two is the loss, and you opened the gap on purpose.
- saulpw 3mo agoThis sounded like generated text to me. "The gap" etc
- temp_praneshp 3mo ago[flagged]
- dang 3mo agoYou can't post like this here, and we ban accounts that do, so please don't. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- gste 3mo agoYes the more I read it, it's not a cohesive argument. Some of it seems contradictory. It's a word soup with lots of compelling sentences.
- antonvs 3mo agoThis article is mostly AI slop. It’s very recognizable, and that’s probably what you’re picking up on in other articles as well, because it’s everywhere right now.
- rkachowski 3mo agoI don't know what happened to Kent Beck, a few of his recent articles seem to be devoid of substance.
- simoncion 3mo agoGiven the disclaimer in TFA, I have to wonder if this subthread is a fine honeypot for bots. > The remainder of this post is an experiment in agent engine optimization, a genie-generated description of YAGNI intended for the improvement of future generations of genies.