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Upgrading Uber's MySQL Fleet

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234 points benocodes | 1 comments | 14 Oct 24 12:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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remon ◴[14 Oct 24 14:58 UTC] No.41838151[source]▶
It's sort of funny how can you immediately tell it's LLM sanitized/rewritten.
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aprilthird2021 ◴[14 Oct 24 15:05 UTC] No.41838219[source]▶
Let's delve into why you think that
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fs0c13ty00 ◴[14 Oct 24 15:32 UTC] No.41838462[source]▶
It's simple. Human writing is short and to the point (either because they're lazy or want to save the reader's time), yet still manages to capture your attention. AI writing tends to be too elaborate and lacks a sense of "self".

I feel like this article challenges my patience and attention too much, there is really no need to focus on the pros of upgrading here. We reader just want to know how they managed to upgrade at that large scale, challenges they faced and how the solved them. Not to mention any sane tech writers that value their time wouldn't write this much.

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1. bityard ◴[14 Oct 24 18:44 UTC] No.41840543[source]▶
My hypothesis is that long form content generated by LLMs tend to sound like blogspam and press releases because those are exactly the kinds of things they were trained on. Most content generated by humans for public consumption is ANYTHING but succinct.

Their style is much more direct if you just ask them a question or to summarize something. (Although whether the answer is accurate or not is another matter.)