alt Hacker NewsI’ve become overly sensitive to it as well because it’s such a reliable indicator that there are other problems in the work.
I’ve wasted so much time looking at interesting repos this year before discovering that one of the main claims was a hallucination, or that when I got to the specific part of the codebase it just had a big note from the LLM that’s it’s a placeholder until it can figure out how to do the requested thing.
The people who have AI write their articles don’t care if it works or if it’s correct. They’re trying to get jobs and want something quick and interesting that will appeal to a lazy hiring manager. We’re just taking the bait too.
> The people who have AI write their articles don’t care if it works or if it’s correct.
I'd build on this: The people who have AI write their articles very likely don't know how their thing works or is correct. High chance they'll stumble when they are expected to speak about whatever it is they are presenting with some authority and demonstration of knowledge. Human to human, not being able to do that = obliterates trust. Places it somewhere near the realm of misinformation, which everyone unilaterally has no interest in consuming.
Good luck to people who want to fluff expertise and present as more-capable for job prospects, the world is shit and I know there's more people who need income than there are jobs that provide for our basic human needs, but this level of AI crutching is just going to bode poorly for those who think this is going to get them where they need to go.