> This is insanity masquerading as pragmatism.
> This is not engineering. This is fashion masquerading as technical judgment.
The boring explanation is that AI wrote this. The more interesting theory is that folks are beginning to adopt the writing quirks of AI en masse.
At least I'm not the only one who noticed. It's genuinely weird and unsettling how such AI-written blog posts nowadays get to the top of HN easily.
I feel more like AI have adopted some preexisting disagreeable writing styles from the beginning and now we associate these with AI.