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spagoopyesterday at 7:21 PM4 repliesview on HN

Is it just me or is this article insanely confusing? With all due respect to the author, please be mindful of copy editing LLM-assisted writing.

There is a really interesting discussion underneath of this as to the limitations of JSON along with potential alternatives, but I can't help but distrust this writing due to how much it sounds like an LLM.


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port11yesterday at 7:25 PM

I don't think it's LLM-generated or even assisted. It's kinda like how I write when I don't want to really argue a point but rather get to the good bits.

Seems like the author just wanted to talk about Protobuf without bothering too much about the issues with JSON (though some are mentioned).

phyzometoday at 12:09 AM

It wasn't confusing, but yeah, it smelled strongly of LLMs.

pavel_lishinyesterday at 7:57 PM

> Is it just me or is this article insanely confusing?

I didn't find it confusing.

I found it unconvincing, but the argument itself was pretty clear. I just disagreed with it.

dkdcioyesterday at 7:28 PM

do you have any evidence that the author used a LLM? focusing on the content, instead of the tooling used to write the content, leads to a lot more productive discussions

I promise you cannot tell LLM-generated content from non-LLM generated content. what you think you’re detecting is poor quality, which is orthogonal to the tooling used

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