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692 points rudedogg | 5 comments | 16 Nov 25 19:44 UTC | HN request time: 0.948s | source
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shuraman7 ◴[16 Nov 25 21:21 UTC] No.45948508[source]▶
It's really hard to believe this isn't AI generated, but today I was trying to use the HTTP server from std after the 0.15 changes, couldn't figure out how it's supposed to work until I've searched repos in Github. LLM's couldn't figure it out as well, they were stuck in a loop of changing/breaking things even further until they arrived at the solution of using the deprecated way. so I guess this is actually handwritten which is amazing because it looks like the best resource I've seen up until now for Zig
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blks ◴[16 Nov 25 22:14 UTC] No.45948933[source]▶
> It's really hard to believe this isn't AI generated

Case of a person who is relying on LLMs so much he cannot imagine doing something big by themselves.

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shuraman7 ◴[16 Nov 25 22:21 UTC] No.45948985[source]▶
it's not only the size - it was pushed all at once, anonymously, using text that highly resembles that of an AI. I still think that some of the text is AI generated. perhaps not the code, but the wording of the text just reeks of AI
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BlackjackCF ◴[16 Nov 25 22:52 UTC] No.45949190[source]▶
Can you provide some examples where the text reeks of AI?
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1. wild_egg ◴[16 Nov 25 22:59 UTC] No.45949233[source]▶
Literally the heading as soon as you click the submitted link

> Learning Zig is not just about adding a language to your resume. It is about fundamentally changing how you think about software.

The "it's not X, it's Y" phrasing screams LLM these days

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2. ropable ◴[16 Nov 25 23:24 UTC] No.45949396[source]▶
It's almost as though the LLMs were trained on all the writing conventions which are used by humans and are parroting those, instead of generating novel outputs themselves.
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3. fifhtbtbf ◴[17 Nov 25 00:00 UTC] No.45949674[source]▶
They haven’t picked up any one human writing style, they’ve converged on a weird amalgamation of expressions and styles that taken together don’t resemble any real humans writing and begin to feel quite unnatural.
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4. wild_egg ◴[17 Nov 25 01:25 UTC] No.45950087{3}[source]▶
The Uncanny Valley of prose.
5. anon7000 ◴[17 Nov 25 01:50 UTC] No.45950193[source]▶
Plenty of people use “it’s not X, it’s Y”

As someone who uses em-dashes a lot, I’m getting pretty tired of hearing something “screams AI” about extremely simple (and common) human constructs. Yeah, the author does use that convention a number of times. But that makes sense, if that’s a tool in your writing toolbox, you’ll pull it out pretty frequently. It’s not signal by itself, it’s noise. (does that make me an AI!?) We really need to be considering a lot more than that.

Reading through the first article, it appears to be compelling writing and a pretty high quality presentation. That’s all that matters, tbh. People get upset about AI slop because it’s utterly worthless and exceptionally low quality.