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kristianpyesterday at 10:20 PM5 repliesview on HN

> The sections that follow are full of real improvements. A bounds check removed, an allocation that no longer happens,

Annoyingly the.net blog seems to have started to use LLMs to write their copy. Using "real" twice in one paragraph - do LLMs do that? Lots of commas is a tell for me.

> This is a long one. It’s meant to be. Grab your hot beverage of choice, settle in, and let’s turn it up.

Ugh.


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pestkrankeryesterday at 10:28 PM

These comments about potential LLM usage are so boring. Stephen is doing this kind of blog post since 6+ years. They all look the same. Read it! It’s very good. Performance deep dives with this kind of quality are rare.

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gerdesjyesterday at 10:34 PM

Not too sure here. I use quite a few commas, too.

I suspect it was done old school: Written by Stephen and passed to a LLM to fill in all those links and other garnish and then passed back for final polish by Stephen. That's how I do my write ups (but generally without the LLM bit for shorter efforts).

This is a long write up, and I'm sure it will have been assisted, but in the right way, and not a sloppy way.

I've dropped several commas before conjunctions, soz!

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tester756yesterday at 10:55 PM

For some people LLM-spotting feels like a sport they need to compete in

wolttamyesterday at 10:53 PM

This is the loudest release of .NET to date(!)

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sltrtoday at 12:38 AM

Backing you up on this. I smelled LLM and hit cmd+w.