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Open-source Zig book

(www.zigbook.net)
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shuraman7 ◴[] 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 ◴[] 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 ◴[] 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 ◴[] No.45949190[source]
Can you provide some examples where the text reeks of AI?
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wild_egg ◴[] 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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ropable ◴[] 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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fifhtbtbf ◴[] 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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1. wild_egg ◴[] No.45950087{3}[source]
The Uncanny Valley of prose.