alt Hacker NewsMultiple people have coined the idea repeatedly, way before you. The oldest comment on HN I could find was in December 2022 by user spawarotti: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33856172
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jeffchuber • today at 4:08 PM
i didnt claim to invent it.
i claimed swyx heard it through me - which he did
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Here is an even older comment chain about it from 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23895706
Apparently, comparing low-background steel to pre-LLM text is a rather obvious analogy.