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_dain_yesterday at 8:24 PM2 repliesview on HN

>Not crashed, not erroring, just... vibing. Sitting there. Motors off. Completely checked out.

>Doesn't crash. Doesn't throw. Just ghosts me.

>Same freeze. Same spot. Iteration 1,615. Every single time.

>It's not slow. It's not starved. It's blocked.

>The Reveal

>That's it. That's the fix. 8 hours of debugging. 2 lines changed. Hold the lock for less time. Tale as old as time.

>The Takeaways

>[the way the bulletpoint list is formatted]

pure AI slop. i'm appalled that this obvious garbage is on the frontpage. you even got the title from GPT, didn't you?


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ccakesyesterday at 10:21 PM

Meh, I enjoyed reading it. I could be LLM-assisted but also I have a bunch of younger devs on my team who do actually write like this

You’re welcome to not like the article, and it can even be LLM-assisted, but that doesn’t mean it’s slop

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ethinyesterday at 9:21 PM

I stopped reading a couple paragraphs in because it felt so mechanical and AI generated. No personality to it.