alt Hacker NewsCloudflare has excellent (human) technical writers. I don’t see any indication this is “slop”, it’s the standard in-the-weeds but understandable blog post they’ve been doing for years.
AI text is everywhere, but this isn’t it.
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This is AI, but I can’t prove it, lol. :) The bulleted lists that are too short both in total list length and text per list item length. littles drama headers as parent noted.
To your point, this would register as “human bloviating for word count subtly” if llms didn’t exist, and at this point is probably the most useful feedback. I doubt it’s 100% one-shot AI, but someone definitely optimized it in parts, but the AI heard “concise” as “bullets and short sentences.”
Agree to disagree. It is likely ai enhanced some where along the path to production. So many phrases reek AI but others do not. Is this a sprinkling of llm help or how a human genuinely writes, idk.
Cloudflare definitely does have excellent technical writers, but a) this doesn't seem to be (entirely? substantially?) from them, and b) if there are AI tropes clearly visible, which they are to me, it's putting readers off regardless of whether the content is AI generated, and that's just bad marketing.