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Has anyone read this yet? I'm extremely skeptical of any book published after ~2024 just because of how much AI slop is in physical books these days. Looks int

• gumby 1mo ago
  Bill Pollock (who is nonstarch press) is a very serious editor so I would not worry about that with NSP books. Of course it’s a small operation, and so isn’t under the same pressures of a big operation. When you’re a boutique operation your only differentiation is quality. Your rule of thumb is unfortunately probably pretty good in the general case.
  • matherial 1mo ago
    The editor is not the one producing the text. For this book, the sample chapter seems to make heavy use of LLM output. Pangram agrees. I guess that for books about AI it's fair game? Eat your own dog food so to speak. People who don't like AI are not the target audience.
• mdp2021 1mo ago
  > extremely skeptical of any book published after ~2024 The problem is with that 'any': > Drawing on more than 30 years of embedded engineering experience, David Such takes you through the complete engineering process Would David Such ruin his reputation after 30 years building it?
  • thatjoeoverthr 1mo ago
    Few reputations remain unruined now.