Comment by furyofantares
6 days ago
> I'll be writing about those next.
I doubt it, you didn't write about this! You prompted it and signed your name to it.
6 days ago
> I'll be writing about those next.
I doubt it, you didn't write about this! You prompted it and signed your name to it.
I missed this but now that you point it out, seems plausible.
Pretty ironic on an article about quality products being replaced by cheaper ones.
Dead horse but I find it astonishing that people can still miss AI writing like this.
Don't you find it incredibly grating that every paragraph grinds to a halt while 3 sentence fragments are repeated? Same rhetorical devices. Same tone. Same pointless constructions.
That's not good writing. It's cheap parlour tricks.
The rhythm continues almost as though the writing is in verse—with the effect of hypnotizing the reader so they don't notice nothing is being said at all. The result? Skimmable prose. Digestible reading. Shareable content.
It's not just bad style. It's actually rotting your brain. And if you can't notice that, maybe you weren't reading at all.
this comment reeks of AI too, and the fact i can't tell if you're being tongue in cheek means i'm cooked
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I envy you, I can’t even read more than a few paragraphs because this style of adding catchy sentences to make you go „wow“ every few sentences is so annoying.
Keyana Sapp is the "author"
Good to know they hire that kind of incompetence at Palantir. It makes them less effective.
It always seems to be the case with these LLM blogs that if they're not about AI they are from someone heavily involved in AI, at least for now.
LinkedIn:
> Strategic Partnerships @ Palantir | AI Strategy
Not really incompetence if he hasn't looked at the article
Yep, I’d rather read the prompt.
The slow realization this whole article was AI prompted was such a disappointment to me. I'm fascinated by the subject matter, and it seems like the person who prompted it is aware of specifics at least... But I also don't want to feed myself LLM-induced pollution that might make it into my own writing or thinking patterns.
The article is clearly generated text, but it's also just low quality writing.
If the author _were_ aware of specifics, they could have just written the article. A list of bullet points would be better.
It's almost as if they made the article Worse, on Purpose.
Realized pretty quickly too. Then when I saw the related posts at the bottom being very recent sealed it for me.
I mean, it's a post a week. I think that's pretty plausible. The worst part of this era is just not knowing if I'm reading generated output or genuine human thought.
Maybe the next expose on worseonpurpose.com will be blogging
How can you tell?
Its got this ... cadence:
> Same earnings call. Same margin targets. Same quarterly pressure. The sense that you were choosing between competitors was a fiction that VF Corp had no incentive to correct.
> That threat disciplined every material choice, every stitch count, every zipper spec. Once they all report to the same parent, the discipline evaporates. Nobody needs to outbuild anybody. The only pressure left is the one coming from above
> None of this shows up on the shelf. The colors are right. The logos are crisp. The product photography is excellent. You discover what you actually bought three months in, when the stitching pulls apart at every stress point.
Its thing X. Its thing Y. Its thing Z. And now I'm going to tell you about thing Q in a longer sentence.
More generally it's pure info dump. Everything is lists of things, all given the same weight, even if not literal bullet point lists or numbered lists.
Some other common things (not present in this article) that are dressed up lists are short titled paragraphs, and sequences of sentences that go "blah blah blah: blah blah blah."
Very little opinion added anywhere, but the punchy writing style where everything is given an overdone monotone overimportance masks it a little.
Pure infodump is not terrible for some things but I'd much rather it be less heavily processed by the LLM, and be upfront about the fact that it's a dressed up infodump with an LLM involved.
The irony is that this is a perfect example of the thing the article complains about. Even writing is now of a lower quality thanks to LLMs. In this case you're paying with your time instead of money for a lower quality product than you'd get 10 years ago.
I don’t see why that would be proof of being written by a LLM.
It quite well can be (and I think it is) stylistic writing, hammering the message home by repetition of blows.
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Yeah, all of that felt a lot like Claude's writing style.
LLMs really like the "it's not this, it's that" framing. The short punchy lists/sequences also feel off to me.
I think it's also the reuse of the same strategy repeatedly throughout the article. I think most human writers often feel put off if they use the same literary device too much.
At this point, I'm running anything that has the "usual" AI tells through Pangram. Nine times out of ten, the article is 100% AI generated. (This one is 63%.)
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I don't see which of those he violated?
Also from the guidelines: "HN is for conversation between humans." Granted, it's under comment guidelines, but I think it's acting in the spirit of the rule to point out AI output.
If you think it's AI slop, just flag the article and move on. Of all the stupid reasons people flag articles unfairly on HN, finally we have a good reason to flag them, and instead people comment.
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Don't post generated comments or AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans.
Its a dumb and toothless rule. How do we detect that?
Counting emdashes? "If not this but that"? 'I am using AI'. (Username with bot or claw or agent)
Where this is headed is a LLM being able to control a KVM connection, and the LLM and associated software doesnt exist on the VM. And naturally, you run anti-VM detection software.
That way theres no API, other than the actual webpage UI. Thats ALSO a API.
Thank you. By the end of 2026, the same snarky "This article was written by LLM" comment is going to be posted on every single article on HN. It's becoming pointless to point out.
There's still plenty of human authored content out there. No need to post slop on HN.
My rule is: If you can't be bothered writing an article, don't expect me to read it.
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