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wild_egg 12 hours ago

Literally the heading as soon as you click the submitted link

> Learning Zig is not just about adding a language to your resume. It is about fundamentally changing how you think about software.

The "it's not X, it's Y" phrasing screams LLM these days

ropable 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It's almost as though the LLMs were trained on all the writing conventions which are used by humans and are parroting those, instead of generating novel outputs themselves.

fifhtbtbf 11 hours ago | parent [-]

They haven’t picked up any one human writing style, they’ve converged on a weird amalgamation of expressions and styles that taken together don’t resemble any real humans writing and begin to feel quite unnatural.

wild_egg 10 hours ago | parent [-]

The Uncanny Valley of prose.

anon7000 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Plenty of people use “it’s not X, it’s Y”

As someone who uses em-dashes a lot, I’m getting pretty tired of hearing something “screams AI” about extremely simple (and common) human constructs. Yeah, the author does use that convention a number of times. But that makes sense, if that’s a tool in your writing toolbox, you’ll pull it out pretty frequently. It’s not signal by itself, it’s noise. (does that make me an AI!?) We really need to be considering a lot more than that.

Reading through the first article, it appears to be compelling writing and a pretty high quality presentation. That’s all that matters, tbh. People get upset about AI slop because it’s utterly worthless and exceptionally low quality.