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sofayam • today at 11:06 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

Strange, nothing in those two paragraphs sounds particularly LLM-like to me. What am I missing?


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eproxus • today at 11:24 AM

I had the same reaction. Some phrases stand out to me:

- "Imagery, road map and topographic map lie on real terrain"

- "joined by thousands of open maps from the Library" (what "Library"? Why capital L?)

- "Everything loaded stays in the cache"

- "Status windows tell how far the view has loaded"

- "every source is listed with its license in 'Sources and Licenses'"

Many cases of inanimate subjects with animate verbs "Imagery [...] lie", "windows tell". Also, some of it feels redundant and doesn't feel written in a way a human would, e.g. "every source is listed with its license in 'Sources and Licenses'".

Also, things like "the cache" feels like it is obvious for the LLM since it probably has that in the context a lot, but for a user, what does "the cache" mean? For a user facing description I would have expected either "a cache" or another formulation like "Everything downloaded by Kugelblitz is stored in a local cache" or something along those lines.

coldtea • today at 11:46 AM

"you fly over smoothly like a pilot" (so, with my view limited by the cockpit, and constrained to mandatory airways?)

"Everything comes from freely available geodata, straight from its publishers" (as opposed to using "freely available geodata" through mediators?)

"joined by thousands of open maps from the Library" (what Library? Of Congress?)

"Kugelblitz instances in the same network share it with each other if you wish" (yeah "if you wish" sure is how a human would phrase an optional setting)

"Kugelblitz speaks German and English and uses the units of your choice" (same)

and many more

It's slop writing.

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