Comment by furyofantares
1 day ago
> Dead silence. One person suggested WPF. Another said WinUI 3. A third asked if they should just use Electron. The meeting went sideways and we never did answer the question.
> That silence is the story.
These LLMs are just awful at writing.
I felt fatigued after the second paragraph. All these LLM tropes chained together are horrible to read.
Yes they really do a great job at mimicking awful human writing of that horrendous style, whatever it's called. Post-TED NPR style bougie blogging let's say.
This site needs a no LLM submissions policy too.
I flagged the post, don't even care how accurate it is. Go send your AI slop to /dev/null, folks.
I think you should look at the graphic. It's riddled with inaccuracies and nearly-unreadable spelling mistakes and mangled typography. I think that's plenty of a good reason to flag it.
I think it really abuses the assumption of good faith and the default to generous interpretation, because it forces you to divorce the author from their own published work in order to view them seriously. I suspect most of the comments here are generously ignoring the included graphic. But in the most generous view possible, the author is fine with publishing wildly inaccurate statements.
I think this makes HackerNews much worse, and posts like these should only be flagged.
I was weathering the excessive and confusing analogies and then I read:
>introduced a level of cognitive complexity that makes Kierkegaard read like Hemingway.
and I fucking lost it.
that part really didn’t make sense to me. This is true for all desktop platforms.
I agree, although I was talking about:
WHAT SILENCE?
In a more generous interpretation, there was silence, _then_ people said something. That makes sense.
But "That silence is the story." is still a pretty telling non-sequitr, and it doesn't seem like the kind that comes from sloppy editing.
The punchy "Thing. Thing. Thing." is used constantly. We see it constantly in this article:
> 852 pages. Win16 API in C.
> Message loops. Window procedures. GDI.
> One OS, one API, one language, one book.
But those are minor sins. But in the end of the article, Snover states that Microsoft pitched C++ in 2012. That's so incorrect! The contents of this blog post are at least partially falsified.
Plus, the thesis statement is nonsense:
> When a platform can’t answer “how should I build a UI?” in under ten seconds, it has failed its developers. Full stop.
"Full stop" is a pretty heavy thing to end a nonsense statement with. How an inanimate software platform can "answer" things is not implicitly obvious, either. Is it a human representative? Are they the docs? Is it through a good UI?
The post is about Petzold's / Reccold's "Programming Windows", but it is apparently 852 pages, so that certainly wasn't answered in under 10 seconds either.
He immediately said they never did make a decision, so probably that indecision.
Having said that, this article feels like AI slop to me. Couldn’t get through it.
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