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simonw 17 minutes ago

If someone had written it. It's well curated slop, but it's still slop. Consider this bit:

> A profession does not need to be eliminated to be mourned. It is enough for its center to fall out, leaving the people who built careers in that center with credentials that no longer map to a stable role. When AI threatens the work, it threatens the self, which is why the response looks less like ordinary job-loss fear and more like a form of bereavement.

I'm certain that section was mostly constructed by an LLM. It reads well, but when you actually focus on what it's saying there's nothing there.

I was not enlightened by reading that. No human sat thinking deeply about the situation, constructed their own mental model of what was happening, then put effort into transferring that mental model into my brain so I could be similarly enlightened. They had Claude (probably) express a conclusion that was attached to nothing more than what would statistically sound "deep".

Hacker News is surprisingly tolerant of slop these days. I expect to be downvoted for this, because comments highlighting slop are usually downvoted. So it goes.

tom_ 8 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Moaning about downvotes and Things These Days is tedious and your post would be improved by the absence of it.

simonw 2 minutes ago | parent [-]

No, it's important. Hacker News is tolerant of slop, and pointing out slop is not popular here.

I'm meta-complaining if you like, but it's a point that I'll stand by.

LolWolf 9 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

The whole thing is unbelievable slop ! I think the whole article is llm-generated unfortunately (just reading the first paragraph I got an immediate smell).