alt Hacker NewsI was interested in reading this until my slop detector went off at the paragraph starting with “It's worth being precise about where the benefit comes from, because it isn't raw speed.”
I love AI, but I really hate reading it.
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> “It's worth being precise about where the benefit comes from, because it isn't raw speed.“
What's funny it's that is as if AI "learned" to speak english but not really. People simply don't speak using those strange constructs: those sentences sound a bit like if a "Karen" was trying to make a point.
What's scary, to me, as a dev using AI, is that those LLMs do the same thing with code: it looks like proper code, but it really ain't so once you dig a bit.
It's verbose and doesn't add anything: it's just infinite verbiage / sloppy-pasta.
Crazy thing though it's that it's 2026 and apparently devs can't be bothered to copy/paste their sloppy-pasta LLMish into a de-sloppifier before publishing blog posts.
I'm getting somewhat conflicted. There is a Twitter account I follow that has great takes and lots of deeply personal posts... BUT he obviously uses an LLM in his writing pipeline somewhere. Too many AIisms scattered about to ignore.
I'm not thrilled with it, but he is obviously using it to improve his writing overall- to communicate some great ideas that are personal and germane. I've decided that being too inflexible serves no one. If it is true slop, I'll not revisit the writer in the future- if they are using AI to polish writing that at its core is a unique voice, I'll accept it and learn to live with it...
Cloudflare blogs are not meant to be human-read, AFAIK. They're raw material meant to be fed into an agent to be filtered down. I rarely read the contents because they are usually word-expanded to a greater degree than an article from The Atlantic.
Came here to comment this.
I have had to stop commenting this because it would end up on 50% of the posts here. I really wish we could flag prose as ai-generated on here and just filter it out.