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I find this post disheartening. To my eye, it seems to be the author's first blog entry with obvious LLM contributions. Given the recent "moving to a farm" ...
by DrBrock 2mo ago
I find this post disheartening. To my eye, it seems to be the author's first blog entry with obvious LLM contributions.
Given the recent "moving to a farm" ... 7 days later ... "leaving the farm" posts, it's hard not to read this as someone clearly struggling with the burnout which is all too common in our industry, and resultingly giving in to the false promise of a machine that can just handle the thinking for you.
- vor_ 2mo agoThey've updated the article to state that no LLM was used.
- Seattle3503 2mo agoYeah, I don't believe them.
- scotty79 2mo agoIt's only because you'd rather believe that you are being lied to than mistaken.
- grey-area 2mo agoNo, because the writing is objectively bad in ways that LLMs excel in producing. Either they used an LLM or they have no taste and have used LLMs far too much elsewhere.
- scotty79 2mo ago> No, because the writing is objectively bad in ways that LLMs excel in producing. Author does not dispute that. Yet they claim to not use AI. So your preferred belief is that they are lying, rather than a thing that looks AI written might have been actually written by a human and you are wrong thinking that it can't be true in this case.
- grey-area 2mo agoYes that’s right, I and many other readers think the author is probably lying when they say they didn’t use AI.
- ricardobeat 2mo agoThe update itself has strong AI tells: > I do write like this sometimes. The short sentences, the reversals, the one-word lines—all of it. It’s just the way it is. > That says something about my writing. It says nothing about who wrote it. > So let me be plain about it: Claude was not here. No LLM wrote this—not a sentence of it, nor was it outlined, drafted, reviewed, checked, etc. by one Either the author is doing this on purpose, or this is some kind of art project. I don’t buy the “just a coincidence” story at all.
- ryeights 2mo agoRight, I feel like I'm taking crazy pills reading all the comments taking this article seriously. I think AI has broken HN. The readership is so head-in-the-sand about AI that they wouldn't recognize 2000 words of Claudeslop if it genuinely slapped them in the face
- raincole 2mo agoMost commenters only read the title. That's it. The alternative explanation (the top commenters actually read it and somehow didn't recognize it's obviously written with AI) is just too bleak and I choose to not believe that.
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- yulker 2mo agoThe whole post has that immediate LLM "mouthfeel"
- movpasd 2mo agoIt's LLM-like in the details, but there are certain patterns of repetition and idiosyncrasies, also certain analogies I don't think an LLM would make (like the aliens thing), that make me believe that it's written by a human.
- gniv 2mo ago> To my eye, it seems to be the author's first blog entry with obvious LLM contributions. Not to me. It's actually quite sharply written. I enjoyed the style a lot.
- tfrancisl 2mo agoFrom my interactions with him in some nix forums online, he is not in the industry. This is hobby work (not to devalue it, as his software is generally high quality).