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taloslast Tuesday at 10:18 PM3 repliesview on HN

Yeah it reads like it, and if a random AI detector (GPTZero) is to be believed it's pretty much all AI generated.

Crazy that nobody can be bothered to get rid of the obvious AI-isms "This isn't just for...", "The Challenges (And How We Handle Them)", "One PR. One review. One merge. Everything ships together." It's an immediate signal that whoever wrote this DGAF.


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Escapade5160last Tuesday at 11:02 PM

The obvious tell for me is when the article is packed full of 'Its not just x, it's y' statements. I am not sure why LLMs gravitated so heavily towards their current style of writing. Pre LLMs, I can't recall seeing that much written content in that format. If I did, it was in short form content.

lawrjonelast Tuesday at 10:24 PM

I hadn't come across GPTZero before and wondered if it worked. Just testing on a sample of my blog posts (I do one each year) I got a 100% AI generated mark for a post in... 2022, and 2023. Both before AI tools were around.

Not to say this post isn't AI generated but you might want a better tool (if one exists)

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teekertlast Tuesday at 10:26 PM

Pff the mental list of what I can’t use when I write is getting pretty big. Em dashes are done for, as are deep dives, delving, anything too enthusiastic, and Oxford commas…

A text either has value to you or it doesn’t. I don’t really understand what the level of AI involvement has to do with it. A human can produce slop, an AI can produce an insightful piece. I rely mostly on HN to tell them apart value-wise.

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