Comment by nxc18
3 days ago
It is astonishing how easy it is to see the AI hand at work in the writing. Really, it is almost impossible not to see. I don’t get how these people feel it is appropriate to pass off slop like this and not even bother to edit it.
Just painful to read.
The author is not a native speaker. The research topic and methodology are manual, along with the first draft of the article, but he eventually did use AI to make the writing "better". It is either this or grammatical slips here and there, which may annoy the same group of people even more.
Hope this clarifies things.
I think it's extremely unlikely that people who are bothered by LLMisms in writing would be more bothered by human grammar slips.
> The author is not a native speaker.
As a non-native speaker, I really hate how people use this as an excuse. LLMs are good at fixing grammatical errors, so I use them daily as spell checkers. Using LLMs for rewriting is just lazy.
Try: I'm learning English as a second language. I will provide you with a text, and you have to print the corrected text in a code block so that I can copy it. Under it, there should be two lists: one containing the errors and brief descriptions of them, and another containing tips for improving the text. Do not give your opinion about the text. Focus on grammar.
Format: [TEXT] C: [CONTEXT]
I'd much prefer grammar slips than a LLM-ified post.
Shut up. Just shut up.
> Avoid generic tangents.
> Please don't post shallow dismissals
> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage.
See: Hacker News Guidelines
> Please don't post shallow dismissals
I’ll point out you also violate this guideline.
Do you seriously read the article and not see that it is extremely low signal-to-noise? And full of non-sequiturs and strange unnecessary clarifications? And passed off as a research project.
“Claude, write an article about why agents use grep instead of LSP”
This would have saved everyone the pain of reading this.
As another user pointed out: “Training support is a hypothesis consistent with these results, not something this study proves.” is not a sentence a human would write, nor is it a sentence that a human should ever be made to read. I apologize for reproducing it; the article is chock full of these “gems”.
100%. This article is written by AI. The problem is it makes you doubt the whole thing: Did the person behind this do any work at all? Or is this just content marketing for an AI project - something that used to require time and effort - but now can be done by anyone with a click on a button.
Too bad. Because this is sort of an interesting subject.
Have you never read human writing before? Humans write all kinds of confusingly worded things all the time - it’s why we have editors even for writers who are the cream of the crop.
But also that sentence is entirely fine as it is to me, it’s pretty simple and clear isn’t it?
>Shut up. Just shut up.
Try to remain civil, even when you have Big Feelings.