Comment by notpushkin
5 hours ago
“The [A] is the [B]” (and variations with “the” replaced with “your”) is screaming LLM to me. It’s been used by real people too, but it sounds very corporate, and is not something I’ve seen used to describe a personal project before LLMs.
It must have been used by humans before LLMs, because where do you think they learned it?
The network is the computer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Network_is_the_Computer
It was always corny except in very specific cases.
It has been used before LLMs. I have no idea why LLMs prefer it, though.
All the marketing materials that got used for training. Marketing speak is not my cup of team.
LLM apophenia is so widespread in HN that it's becoming quite sickening.