The README has clearly been touched by an LLM. Count the idiosyncrasies:

“chardet 7.0 is a ground-up, MIT-licensed rewrite of chardet. Same package name, same public API — drop-in replacement for chardet 5.x/6.x”

Do people not write anymore?

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tclancy 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I finally had to mute r/isthisai on Reddit because there’s now a subset of people who see the hand of AI in everything. Could that be generated by a clanker? Sure, but it’s also exactly what I would write if I wanted a quick pitch for a library that addresses some immediate concerns. It’s also what I would focus on if the fact we had just finished a rebuild from scratch.

As Freud famously said, sometimes an em dash is just an em dash.

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soulofmischief 4 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

We are both trying to steer an internet towards a place we want to be.

The em dash is just a bonus, the grammatical structure is the giveaway. I'd invite Blanchard to argue that it wasn't LLM-generated.

I use AI tooling all day every day and can easily pick out when something was written by most popular modern models. I welcome an agentic web; it's the inevitable future. But not like this. I want things to get better, not worse.

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adrian17 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

FWIW, I don't think there's even a room for interpretation here, given the commit that created the README (and almost all commits since the rewrite started 4 days ago) is authored by

> dan-blanchard and claude committed 4 days ago

	▲	tclancy 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Sure, I just could use a break from the needless side tracks.

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remix2000 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

For me, some projects I start by writing a readme.txt by hand. That saves me time in cases I realize I'd be making something pointless. (I don't use chatbots when coding though)