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if 99 poor effort/quality projects have a readme that reads in a particular style, then you expect the 100th project with a readme in the same style to also be
by nasso_dev 2mo ago
if 99 poor effort/quality projects have a readme that reads in a particular style, then you expect the 100th project with a readme in the same style to also be of poor effort/quality
statistically, it only makes sense for your expectations to immediately be low when you encounter this writing style because there are just so much slop out there
the author is free to keep that writing style but they should be aware that this will—at least on the surface level—make their project look exactly like the metric ton of slop we see posted everyday everywhere
- FooBarWidget 2mo agoThat's like saying a large percentage of X-colored people are criminals, therefore when we see an X-colored person it's reasonable to expect him to be criminal. As a society we have decided that heuristics like this, and prejudicing individuals based on statistics of the group, are not acceptable. Also, what do we call it when people don't look beyond the writing style, such as at the code, or at the rigorousness of the tests, or at other substances beyond writing style? Slop assessment?
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- cryptonector 2mo agoOn the other hand I know how to tell if the underlying idea is good, and if it is I can decide to put up with reading through LLM outputs.