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lijok 4 hours ago

Can you elaborate? I read it, found the concepts well explained, walked away better informed.

Responding to alleged slop with more slop doesn’t decrease the total amount of slop on the internet.

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davidmurdoch 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You think I'm using AI to leave comments like this on HN?

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skrebbel 4 hours ago | parent [-]

"slop" doesn't mean "AI generated content", it means bad content, a waste of the reader's time. Grantparent's implication is that your comment was bad content, not that it was AI generated bad content.

	▲	davidmurdoch 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I was riffing off of the meaning from https://noslopgrenade.com/ which made its way around the comments here on HN a few weeks ago.

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geraneum 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Not the original commenter; but, at least for me, the idea is that when it’s written by humans we know that effort and care were put into communicating the news. Otherwise they could post a link to the docs and we could ask my flavor of LLM to summerize. No need for extra filler content. That why it’s slop and it’s different.

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lijok 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I don’t have access to my flavor of LLM on the train nor the time or budget to have it do the research and summary for me

Why are we all of a sudden pretending like pre-LLM era blogs were these pristinely well written pieces of art or even that effort and care was put into them? In most cases they were significantly less coherent and incomplete. Don’t get me started on the mess that was the communication of this particular company or one of their competitors like AWS.

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davidmurdoch 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Because we add humans enjoy variety. I read for entertainment, even technical posts like this one that I have no use for. I often trying to think about what the author may have been thinking when writing, why they introduced concepts in a specific order, what ideas might they have omitted, etc. It's personal and enjoyable. But now, when I detect the familiar writing style of what seems to be a gpt 5 model, that "parasocial" connection dies.

The LLM explained the core concept and features very well. But it was dull and boring to me, as I already have to read this writing style at work pretty much all day every day.

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lijok 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I hear you, and agree with your points, but do have to ask - what’s the point in complaining? See LLM slop as you called it, ignore it and move on. There’s plenty of more intimately authored content out there.

	▲	davidmurdoch 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Why not complain?

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geraneum 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

>I don’t have access to my flavor of LLM on the train nor the time or budget to have it do the research and summary for me

Aren't you gonna let the LLM develop for you anyway? Why bother writing and reading a post at all?

> pretending like pre-LLM era blogs were these pristinely well written pieces of art

The point is the effort and care that the writer puts which differentiates it from automatically generated text. That matters because a human can sympathize and that leads to better understanding and greater connection. That's why a post is written.

> Don’t get me started on the mess that was the communication of this particular company or one of their competitors like AWS.

And we criticize those as well. Nothing's changed. Yesterday's bad content is today's slop (plus a mind boggling amount of investment, corruption and environmental side effects).

	▲	lijok 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Honestly sounds to me like you have a bone to pick with AI in general. Negative sentiment on a particular LLM authored blog post muddies the waters and misrepresents your valid points. Not the way to do this IMO. Happy to be corrected.