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This article is highly AI generated. The first paragraph is probably not AI generated, but the rest is definitely. I also double checked on gptzero me and it 1

by arnorhs 1mo ago

This article is highly AI generated. The first paragraph is probably not AI generated, but the rest is definitely. I also double checked on gptzero me and it 100% agrees with me. I'm curious to know though whether or not the "author" used Gemini. I've been using Gemini a lot in the past year, and the writing sounds exactly like Gemini. But it's possible that all the models sound the same. Edit: I'd like to add that I still liked the article and agree with it, and in general I find Gemini's writing style to be quite enjoyable.

danielmarkbruce 1mo ago
I think this comment is AI generated.
nzeid 1mo ago
Definitely stinks of LLM phrasing, metering, and punctuation. But I'd say the ideas are the author's alone and they do cut through.
- a2ff6eeb0 1mo ago
  How do you know? I think LLMs are more than advanced enough to come up with this text. In fact, I think they've got so much more management in their training set than a senior engineer that I expect they're going to be a better source of material than the author.
travisd 1mo ago
The AI generated images are classic slop to the point of being actively distracting.
- jihadjihad 1mo ago
  The images are awesome, in an “I cannot believe someone would upload this to their site” kind of way. The blueprint with the “LOAD-BEARING WALL!!!” includes nonsensical labels like “Dining Broom” and “Witchen”, and I am supremely disappointed that there isn’t a bubbling cauldron or pointed hat to be found.
  - tuckerwales 1mo ago
    My hand drawn images would be far worse!
  - Anamon 1mo ago
    The Chesterton's Fence one also says in the caption that the fence has been removed, while in the image it's actually wider than in the first panel. Yeah, nobody took one second to look this over before posting it directly from the slop machine =(
udfalkso 1mo ago
Who cares!
- Anamon 1mo ago
  People who value their time more highly than wanting to spend 5 minutes reading something that took someone 3 seconds of effort to produce, if that. I visit HN because it's supposed to surface interesting, novel, engaging, challenging articles. LLM output is the extreme opposite of that.
massysett 1mo ago
I don’t see why it is interesting to claim that a piece is AI generated, especially in light of the concession in your last paragraph that you liked the article. AI is a tool. It outputs things only when asked to. Asking it requires skill. Saying “This is AI generated” is like pointing at furniture and saying that “power tools were used to build that” or at a program and saying “that’s not assembly, a modern garbage-collected language was used to build that” or at a meal and saying “this was cooked in a kitchen with a modern temperature-controlled oven” or at a paper and saying “this was obviously typeset in LaTeX, not roff or plain TeX.” So what? Give me a shop full of power tools and I can’t build any furniture, give me Python and a bunch of libraries and I can’t write Mercurial, and give me any LLM and I couldn’t have written this piece. Does the conceit come from the idea of “some LLM wrote this, so anyone could”? This is like walking through a modern art museum and seeing some obvious-looking piece and saying “I could have done that.” Well, you didn’t.
- scared_together 1mo ago
  > AI is a tool. It outputs things only when asked to. This is not entirely accurate if we consider agentic loops. > Asking it requires skill. Considering the realm of writing a blog post instead of programming, what is the skill? I suspect there is extremely little. But I could be wrong, tell me what skill you think went into this. > and give me any LLM and I couldn’t have written this piece. Prompt your LLM of choice to generate 100 articles about different aspects of joining a new role, then you won’t need to provide the insights into the specific situations the author described. All you need to do is pay for the tokens. > Does the conceit come from the idea of “some LLM wrote this, so anyone could”? Yes. > Well, you didn’t. Do you know that? What’s stopping someone from asking an LLM to generate an entire HN front page worth of articles, and reading that list instead of HN? This really is a problem with the health of the site in my opinion. If there are a flood of AI generated articles in the top spot, the value proposition of HN as a site is diminished.
  - tuckerwales 1mo ago
    Author here: I dictated this article into my phone and got a model to transcribe and clean up / reword. I'd argue that counts as using AI as a tool for conveying my original thoughts.
userbinator 1mo ago
The title was already a clue that it's AI-generated, and it only gets worse... The first paragraph is probably not AI generated "A bias toward action is a superpower only when applied correctly - here's how to frame it as moving decisively after building context, not rushing in before you have it." ...followed by many, many bloated words that can basically be summed up in two words of old Internet lore: LURK MOAR I agree with the article too, but I didn't have to read that many words to know. "Don't just start doing things because you want to show off, and understand what value you're providing" is how I'd phrase it.

by arnorhs 1mo ago

danielmarkbruce 1mo ago

I think this comment is AI generated.

nzeid 1mo ago

Definitely stinks of LLM phrasing, metering, and punctuation. But I'd say the ideas are the author's alone and they do cut through.

a2ff6eeb0 1mo ago
How do you know? I think LLMs are more than advanced enough to come up with this text. In fact, I think they've got so much more management in their training set than a senior engineer that I expect they're going to be a better source of material than the author.

travisd 1mo ago

The AI generated images are classic slop to the point of being actively distracting.

jihadjihad 1mo ago
The images are awesome, in an “I cannot believe someone would upload this to their site” kind of way. The blueprint with the “LOAD-BEARING WALL!!!” includes nonsensical labels like “Dining Broom” and “Witchen”, and I am supremely disappointed that there isn’t a bubbling cauldron or pointed hat to be found.
- tuckerwales 1mo ago
  My hand drawn images would be far worse!
- Anamon 1mo ago
  The Chesterton's Fence one also says in the caption that the fence has been removed, while in the image it's actually wider than in the first panel. Yeah, nobody took one second to look this over before posting it directly from the slop machine =(

udfalkso 1mo ago

Who cares!

Anamon 1mo ago
People who value their time more highly than wanting to spend 5 minutes reading something that took someone 3 seconds of effort to produce, if that. I visit HN because it's supposed to surface interesting, novel, engaging, challenging articles. LLM output is the extreme opposite of that.

massysett 1mo ago

I don’t see why it is interesting to claim that a piece is AI generated, especially in light of the concession in your last paragraph that you liked the article. AI is a tool. It outputs things only when asked to. Asking it requires skill. Saying “This is AI generated” is like pointing at furniture and saying that “power tools were used to build that” or at a program and saying “that’s not assembly, a modern garbage-collected language was used to build that” or at a meal and saying “this was cooked in a kitchen with a modern temperature-controlled oven” or at a paper and saying “this was obviously typeset in LaTeX, not roff or plain TeX.” So what? Give me a shop full of power tools and I can’t build any furniture, give me Python and a bunch of libraries and I can’t write Mercurial, and give me any LLM and I couldn’t have written this piece. Does the conceit come from the idea of “some LLM wrote this, so anyone could”? This is like walking through a modern art museum and seeing some obvious-looking piece and saying “I could have done that.” Well, you didn’t.

scared_together 1mo ago
> AI is a tool. It outputs things only when asked to. This is not entirely accurate if we consider agentic loops. > Asking it requires skill. Considering the realm of writing a blog post instead of programming, what is the skill? I suspect there is extremely little. But I could be wrong, tell me what skill you think went into this. > and give me any LLM and I couldn’t have written this piece. Prompt your LLM of choice to generate 100 articles about different aspects of joining a new role, then you won’t need to provide the insights into the specific situations the author described. All you need to do is pay for the tokens. > Does the conceit come from the idea of “some LLM wrote this, so anyone could”? Yes. > Well, you didn’t. Do you know that? What’s stopping someone from asking an LLM to generate an entire HN front page worth of articles, and reading that list instead of HN? This really is a problem with the health of the site in my opinion. If there are a flood of AI generated articles in the top spot, the value proposition of HN as a site is diminished.
- tuckerwales 1mo ago
  Author here: I dictated this article into my phone and got a model to transcribe and clean up / reword. I'd argue that counts as using AI as a tool for conveying my original thoughts.

userbinator 1mo ago

The title was already a clue that it's AI-generated, and it only gets worse... The first paragraph is probably not AI generated "A bias toward action is a superpower only when applied correctly - here's how to frame it as moving decisively after building context, not rushing in before you have it." ...followed by many, many bloated words that can basically be summed up in two words of old Internet lore: LURK MOAR I agree with the article too, but I didn't have to read that many words to know. "Don't just start doing things because you want to show off, and understand what value you're providing" is how I'd phrase it.