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| ▲ | jasonjmcghee 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I skimmed, for me it was this: https://github.com/barddoo/zedis/blob/87321b04224b2e2e857b67... There seems to be a fair amount of stigma around using llms. And many people that use them are uncomfortable talking about it. It's a weird world. Depending on who is at the wheel, whether an llm is used _can_ make no difference. But the problem is, you can have no idea what you're doing and make something that feels like it was carefully hand-crafted by someone - a really great project - but there are hidden things or outright lies about functionality, often to the surprise of the author. Like, they weren't trying to mislead, just didn't take them time to see if it did all of what the LLM said it did. | | |
| ▲ | boredemployee 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | 3 months ago I was vibe coding an idea and for some reason (and luck) I went to check a less important part of the code and saw that the LLM changed the env variable of an API key and hard coded the key explictly in the code. That was scary. I'm glad I saw it before PR and shit like that. | |
| ▲ | barddoo 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | [dead] |
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| ▲ | 5- 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | https://github.com/barddoo/zedis/blob/87321b04224b2e2e857b67... these seem to occur only in college assignment projects, and in the output of text generators trained on those. | | |
| ▲ | nine_k 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Has been doing this for years, even before LLMs were a thing. No, not in college assignments; by the time emoji appeared, I had long since walked out of my PhD program and went to the industry. I put such emojis at the beginning of big headings, because my eyes detect compact shapes and colors faster than entire words and sentences. This helps me (and hopefully others) locate the right section easier. In Slack, I put large emojis at the beginning of messages that need to stand out. These are few, and emojis work well in this capacity. (Disclaimer: I may contain a large language model of some kind, but very definitely I cannot be reduced to it in any area of my activity.) | | |
| ▲ | adastra22 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | FWIW it is really confusing to me and others. What is this emoji supposed to mean? Heck if I know. But the telltale signs are far more than just that. The whole document is exactly the kind of README produced by Claude. | |
| ▲ | MangoToupe an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | I had assumed they were referring to stuff like "Type-safe operations with compile-time guarantees". What a weird detail to add to a readme. And the whole section is like that. I wonder if that's part of a prompt leaking through. |
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| ▲ | WD-42 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I will never place emojis in any of my readmes ever again. | | |
| ▲ | chucky_z 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | spell out 'development' with hammer emojis. bring ascii art back as emoji art. (i actually do this in slack messages and folks find it funny and annoying, but more funny) | |
| ▲ | tayo42 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | People were doing this before llms, otherwise how did they learn it? | | |
| ▲ | WD-42 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Sure, but llms absolutely love to do it for some reason. | | |
| ▲ | tayo42 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | I just took a look at a Readme I had cursor write a couple months ago and there's no emojis |
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| ▲ | adastra22 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | That's why he said "never again" |
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| ▲ | rmonvfer 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | As an avid Claude Code user, I can tell you with 99% probability, that README is LLM-generated. This exactly the same structure and wording used by Claude (of course, it has some human modification because otherwise I’d filled with emojis) In my experience, when you work with something like agentic development tools, you describe your goals and give it some constraints like “use modern zig”, “always run tests”… and when you ask it to write a README, it will usually reproduce those constraints more or less verbatim. The same thing happens with the features section, it reads like instructions for an LLM. I might be wrong but I spend way too much time using Claude, Gemini, Codex… and IMHO it’s pretty obvious. But hey, I don’t think it’s a problem! I write a lot of code using LLMs, mostly for learning (and… ejem, some of it might end up in production) and I’ve always found them great tools for learning (supposing you use the appropriate context engineering and make sure the agent has access to updated docs and all of that). For example, I wanted to learn Rust so I half-vibed a GPUI-based chat client for LLMs that works just fine and surprisingly enough, I actually learned and even had some fun. | | |
| ▲ | adastra22 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | I don't know why you're being downvoted. This follows the LLM-generated-README template perfectly. And yeah, it usually ends up being a dumping ground for the constraints you gave it, almost verbatim. |
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