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croemertoday at 11:26 AM4 repliesview on HN

Here's one tell-tale of many: "No alarm, no program light."

Another one: "Two instructions are missing: [...] Four bytes."

One more: "The defensive coding hid the problem, but it didn’t eliminate it."


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monoosotoday at 11:36 AM

That's just writing. I frequently write like that.

This insistence that certain stylistics patterns are "tell-tale" signs that an article was written by AI makes no sense, particularly when you consider that whatever stylistic ticks an LLM may possess are a result of it being trained on human writing.

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tapoxitoday at 11:53 AM

This is my exact writing style - I'm screwed.

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TruffleLabstoday at 11:59 AM

This is just writing; terse maybe and maybe not grammatically correct, but people write like that.

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djmipstoday at 3:46 PM

"Here’s how the bug might have manifested."