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Oh no, you said "landed"! It's dug into our brains!

by foolserrandboy 2mo ago

roarcher 2mo ago
Oh. Oh no.
dag11 2mo ago
You could say it landed cleanly.
- hexasquid 2mo ago
  Good instinct. Fair challenge. This corrects my framing. It makes your point sharp. This is a significant finding. Positively confirmed. That settles it, and it flips the picture. Honest verdict - this is not small. Let me wire it in.
  - roarcher 2mo ago
    There's got to be a Weird Al song like this coming soon.
    - selcuka 2mo ago
      [flagged]
    - bkaae 2mo ago
      Bless the lord that it's not been presented to us yet, because you just know that it exists already.
    - Yizahi 2mo ago
      Behold, The Masterpiece :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49251221 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49251221
      - myvoiceismypass 2mo ago
        This is one of my favorite things to have ever read on HN
doix 2mo ago
I hate that I have to change the way I write to avoid AI-isms. I loved using "load bearing" to describe weird code that you think you can delete but is actually holding everything together. Now people think I'm just parroting what Claude said. It sucks. I want my catch phrases back, I guess this is how em dash users felt
- roarcher 2mo ago
  As a former em-dash enjoyer, I indeed feel your pain.
  - filterfish 2mo ago
    I'm with you an that one. RIP em-dash.
    - jannyfer 2mo ago
      RIP. I had frequently used ALT + 0151.
  - algoth1 2mo ago
    Same here for em-dashes
  - tanseydavid 2mo ago
    I will continue to use em-dashes as I always have. When someone uses the presence of em-dash as the only signal for AI-generated then they are simply lazy.
- account42 2mo ago
  I feel like a lot of these have been LinkedIn-isms or PR-isms long before they have been AI-isms so not much is lost.
  - roarcher 2mo ago
    I used to use em-dashes for explanatory clauses--like this one, for example--when using commas would make the sentence difficult to parse due to other nearby commas. They're only a LinkedIn-ism when used to create an unduly dramatic juxtaposition for an otherwise mundane idea. But now they set off people's AI radar when used for any reason at all.
cueo 2mo ago
Smoking gun!

Oh no, you said "landed"! It's dug into our brains!

roarcher 2mo ago

Oh. Oh no.

dag11 2mo ago

You could say it landed cleanly.

hexasquid 2mo ago
Good instinct. Fair challenge. This corrects my framing. It makes your point sharp. This is a significant finding. Positively confirmed. That settles it, and it flips the picture. Honest verdict - this is not small. Let me wire it in.
- roarcher 2mo ago
  There's got to be a Weird Al song like this coming soon.
  - selcuka 2mo ago
    [flagged]
  - bkaae 2mo ago
    Bless the lord that it's not been presented to us yet, because you just know that it exists already.
  - Yizahi 2mo ago
    Behold, The Masterpiece :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49251221 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49251221
    - myvoiceismypass 2mo ago
      This is one of my favorite things to have ever read on HN

doix 2mo ago

I hate that I have to change the way I write to avoid AI-isms. I loved using "load bearing" to describe weird code that you think you can delete but is actually holding everything together. Now people think I'm just parroting what Claude said. It sucks. I want my catch phrases back, I guess this is how em dash users felt

roarcher 2mo ago
As a former em-dash enjoyer, I indeed feel your pain.
- filterfish 2mo ago
  I'm with you an that one. RIP em-dash.
  - jannyfer 2mo ago
    RIP. I had frequently used ALT + 0151.
- algoth1 2mo ago
  Same here for em-dashes
- tanseydavid 2mo ago
  I will continue to use em-dashes as I always have. When someone uses the presence of em-dash as the only signal for AI-generated then they are simply lazy.
account42 2mo ago
I feel like a lot of these have been LinkedIn-isms or PR-isms long before they have been AI-isms so not much is lost.
- roarcher 2mo ago
  I used to use em-dashes for explanatory clauses--like this one, for example--when using commas would make the sentence difficult to parse due to other nearby commas. They're only a LinkedIn-ism when used to create an unduly dramatic juxtaposition for an otherwise mundane idea. But now they set off people's AI radar when used for any reason at all.

cueo 2mo ago

Smoking gun!