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Comment by bugufu8f83

16 hours ago

>Setting aside...the LLM writing style

I don't want to set that aside either. Why is AI generated slop getting voted to the top of HN? If you can't be bothered to spend the time writing a blog post, why should I be bothered spending my time reading it? It's frankly a little bit insulting.

Don’t assume something you cannot prove. It was great writing

  • Normally the 1 sentence per para LinkedIn post for dummies writing style bugs me to no end, but for a technical article that's continually hopping between questions, results, code, and explanations, it fits really well and was a very easy article to skim and understand.

    • It's action thriller writing for something that's in reality is super dull (my question is loaded with outdated cliches, but would you be telling a girl you're trying to impress at a party about this problem you faced of trying to push some data over the network?). I had to skim over it, like watching a YouTube video at 2x so I don't start evaluating how obnoxious the narrator is.

  • >Don’t assume something you cannot prove.

    Well it's an inherently unprovable accusation, so assumption will have to do. It reeks of LLM-ese in certain word choices, phrases, and structure, though. I thought it was quite clear.

    >It was great writing

    Err... no accounting for taste, I suppose.

    • Just saying but LLM-ese as the common dominator of how people wrote, it is likely the writing style of a lot of people

  • Looked like typical medium.com slop but with a bit more technical detail. Not sure where you see greatness