alt Hacker NewsThe fact that terms like Aho-Corasick, PLDI, Go, etc. are properly capitalized, including if they begin sentences, but otherwise sentences are uncapitalized, makes me think it's an explicit LLM instruction "don't capitalize the start of sentences" rather than writing style.
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No, this is just what that writing style looks like. Names and acronyms are usually capitalized normally.
I keep being surprised by the magnitude of the disconnect between this place and the other circles of hell. I'd have thought the Venn diagram would have a lot more overlap.
What's with this silly "all lower case" style lately?
Jack Dorsey's layoff message last month did the same thing.
Is it some kind of "Prove you're not an AI by purposely writing like an idiot" or something?
ChatGPT also loves Aho-Corasick and seems to overuse it as an optimization fall back idea. ChatGPT has suggested the algorithm to me but the code ended up slowing down a lot.