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Centigonaltoday at 12:39 AM2 repliesview on HN

Another AI-ism is the use of the word "grain" in technical contexts. I'm confident the OP is human-written, but everything in my AI-supported codebase is about grains, seams, tracer bullets, and load-bearing components now.

I'd barely heard some of these words before, and now they're everywhere. It's like everyone suddenly has a friend who speaks in the same idiosyncratic way, and we're all picking up their vocal stims.


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anon373839today at 2:02 AM

> everything in my AI-supported codebase is about grains, seams, tracer bullets, and load-bearing components

Oh no. I'm afraid you may have neglected to do smoke tests.

fidotrontoday at 12:57 AM

This has been a growing problem with humans for a while. Go back ten years and use "guardrails" or "top of mind" in a conversation and you'll get baffled looks. For whatever reason the fad based enthusiasm for semi jargon is a widespread affliction.

In the english speaking world the political sides are even becoming unsubtly linguistically distinct. You can tell which way someone votes by their choice of vocabulary.