that was me swyx

Multiple people have coined the idea repeatedly, way before you. The oldest comment on HN I could find was in December 2022 by user spawarotti: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33856172

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threeducks 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Here is an even older comment chain about it from 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23895706

Apparently, comparing low-background steel to pre-LLM text is a rather obvious analogy.

	▲	pseidemann 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		As well as that people often do think alike. If you have a thought, it's likely it's not new.
	▲	rollulus 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Oh wow, great find! That’s really early days.