AI coding tools are optimising the wrong thing and nobody wants to hear it. Writing code was already fast. The bottleneck is everything else: unclear requirements, review queues, terrified deploy cultures, and an org chart that needs six meetings to decide what colour the button should be.
… am i alone in reading this and getting that queasy twinge in the back of my mind that “hey this writing feels like it has some LLM-like patterns…”
Something in the formatting. Something in the phrasing. Something in the “It’s not x. It’s y.”
At least it’s not full of emdashes, and the phrase “let’s unpack this” makes no appearances.
i wish the tsunami of slop hadn’t made me so damn paranoid -_-
Argh, you’re right, I’m sorry. I’ll delete this post.
Yeah, I share your unease. There have been a few times where I’ve gotten this vibe from some writing and later found out that it likely isn’t LLM generated text, but it’s always striking to me how this doesn’t ease that uncomfortable feeling — because the thing I’m actually uncomfortable about is how the prevalence of slop has made me so paranoid.
If I’m hyper vigilant about avoiding spending energy reading synthetic text, then I risk unduly dismissing something that someone put real time and energy into writing. But if I’m not cautious enough, I risk wasting my own time and energy engaging with content I’d rather ignore. It sucks to be forced into this position
yeah, it’s ai slop complaining about ai slop
I also got LLM vibes. However, some humans do just genuinely write like that. It’s particularly an issue with ESL speakers getting caught in false positives, although this author seems to be a white Australian guy who is probably a native English speaker.
I suppose if you were really bothered you could go back and look at his writing before the dawn of the vibes and see if his writing style is about the same. I don’t care enough to check.