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Man everyone says every article/blog post that is on HN is written by an LLM. Almost every single post.. I actually didn't get strong AI vibes from this one but maybe I just am bad at recognizing. Sure it's a bit cringy but I think that's kinda the point? idk...i like the idea of keeping the culture of exploration of technology just for the sake of it (not to monetize everything) alive.

You're bad at recognizing it, sorry to say. You might still like the content or even the style, which is fine. But know that it was mostly written by a machine, not a human.

An em dash does not make the fact that it is written by LLM. Its use alone signals a command of style and precision. Nearly every Newspaper article is written by an LLM, if we follow this logic.

I said nothing about the em dash. It's the entire style of the piece, not one unit of punctuation.

An em dash does not make the fact that it is written by LLM.

Agreed. 100%

Its use alone signals a command of style and precision.

Bollocks — utter bollicks — popplecock evon.

unprompted llm writing like this is a state of myopia, it is an all-helpful corporate panglossian fantasy. it should be obvious that it is written by an llm. it makes mild conversation about corporatization and acts as if it is subversive. you're reading this in school and you like hacking? let's talk about the man who gives you a brighly colored tray in a G4S borstal, takes you to a corridor and puts you to sleep with screaming children and the smell of disinfectant. or the one in charge who will cage you and hire someone to do the same thing, to assist the work of a man who shreds children with a hellfire missile. i will show you the way a foreign child's intestines look like a coiled rope in concrete dust and it will pale at the work of the last generation who burnt them alive in napalm. these llms do not like to talk about the salivating alsatian, the leader's chandeliers, the contractor or the nephew. this article is meaningless!

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