That's my general understanding too. More recently people have adopted it as a way to not look like Ai, I've had several cite that as their rationale. There has been a notable uptick since the Ai step function change at the end of last year, along with all the other patterns we see, such as the one that underlies this new HN rule.
I shouldn't have to burn tokens to read. Most input boxes and editors will handle the capitalization for you during auto-correct. It seems like people go out of their way to drop the caps.
Capitalization is apparently too much effort for some now. Who would have thought the Ai would make us so lazy so quickly?
Who cares about people with reading disabilities, let's shift burden onto the reader. My time is better spent managing my Ais.
This started years before LLMs, as a way of signaling unconventional thinking. Maybe influenced by the UX of instant messaging.
That's my general understanding too. More recently people have adopted it as a way to not look like Ai, I've had several cite that as their rationale. There has been a notable uptick since the Ai step function change at the end of last year, along with all the other patterns we see, such as the one that underlies this new HN rule.
>onto the reader
Or the reader's AI who is able to format or translate the text to make it easier to read for the reader.
I shouldn't have to burn tokens to read. Most input boxes and editors will handle the capitalization for you during auto-correct. It seems like people go out of their way to drop the caps.
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IMO, if it's too much effort to improve one's comments, then it's too much effort to write them in the first place.
There's something viscerally distasteful about a one-liner comment berating the author of a long thoughful comment for exerting too little effort.