alt Hacker NewsSignificant AI smell in this write up. As a result, my current reflex is to immediately stop reading. Not judgement on the actual analysis and human effort which went in. It’s just that the other context is missing.
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The author is from Turkey (where I’m also originally from).
Believe it or not, when you write a blog post in a different language, it really helps to use an LLM, even just to fix your grammar mistakes etc.
I assume that’s most likely what happened here too.
I didn't notice any signs of AI writing until seeing this comment and re-reading (though I did notice it on the second pass).
That said, I think this article demonstrates that focusing on whether or not an article used AI might be focusing on the wrong “problem.” I appreciate being sensitive to the "smell" (the number of low-effort, AI posts flying around these days has made me sensitive too), but personally, I found this article both (1) easy to read and (2) insightful. I think the number of AI-written content lacking (2) is the problem.
“The numbers are real.” But the voice is not.
If we only applied the same reflex to software, even when 100% human programmed.
I also seem to be developing an immune response to several slopisms. But the actual content is useful for outlining tradeoffs if you’re needing to make your Python code go faster.
I got the same sense, but nowadays I can't be sure whether a text is AI or the writer's style has absorbed LLM tropes.
I don't think it should be conflated with auto generated AI slop. I see a lot of snippets which were clearly manually written. I'm assuming the author used AI in a supervised manner, to smooth out the writing process and improve coherency.
Here's what gave it away for me
> The remaining difference is noise, not a fundamental language gap. The real Rust advantage isn't raw speed -- it's pipeline ownership.