| ▲ | kristianp 4 hours ago |
| > Numbers like that buy a model a real migration effort. Such a silly choice of words. I wish the human directing the LLM writing the article put some effort into rewriting the worst examples of LLM style. > But it did extremely well, and the promise was immediate and specific: builds finishing in less than half the wall-clock time, at 27% lower cost, scoring at or above our incumbent on completed work. The way the LLMs write (Claude perhaps?) With short phrases separated by colons, commas or full stops, is so poor and frustrating. There some good insights behind this article, so it's worth reading, for example below, but it isn't easy to read. > Earlier GPT models cached implicitly on partial prefix matches, which gave decent hit rates for free. GPT-5.6 dropped partial-prefix matching: |
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| ▲ | w4yai 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Can we get over the detective work about if the text was written by LLM or not in 2026 already ? This is a lost cause, and we could instead focus on substance over syntax. |
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| ▲ | liquidise 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Not OP but my frustrations come from it being impossible to ignore and outright distracting. I've found the same thing showing with Claude-coded/designed front ends that overuse the same semi-monospaced fonts, Blue/Yellow/Red palette and rounded corner borders. It isn't that it is bad, but it often isn't fit for purpose. You're right it wont change anything, but authors shouldn't be surprised when people who care about their time/attention comment on low/no effort pieces. | | | |
| ▲ | justAnotherHero an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | To me it's a useful signal not to read an article that someone didn't bother to write. Which is a shame as real insights are buried inside some of these articles, which if the author bothered to write in his own words could have reached an audience that would have appreciated them. Writing is one of the areas where I want no LLM involvement. | |
| ▲ | spicyusername 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | The problem is that the second you suspect something is written by AI, its a pretty good signal that 50-80% of the text is empty of meaning. Maybe that will change, but LLMs are terrible and inefficient writers. Only so much time in the day, its a quick signal to not waste anymore of it. | | |
| ▲ | lewistaariq 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Correct. AI == Credibility hit and it's increasing as more humans get used to feeling they are AI slop consumers, not worth the time for genuine human engagement. Human engagement costs are increasing. Amazing to read/watch. |
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| ▲ | 1123581321 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | It's both poor substance and style, in most cases (and this case.) Pointing out they generated it at least encourages them to write a shorter article that says what they meant. | |
| ▲ | jeremyjh an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Evaluating substance takes time - perhaps more than was invested in the article to begin with. So these tells are very distracting because as soon as I see them I wonder if the person who prompted the LLM even bothered to read the output. If they haven't, then I certainly shouldn't invest the time to determine if there is any substance. | |
| ▲ | conjectures an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | What substance? That they consume a newer model from the same vendor? | |
| ▲ | jraph 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I have a counter proposition: don't fall for this constant suggestion that LLMs are an unavoidable future would you leave the techbros alone now pretty please, relentlessly keep reminding that we still don't think it's acceptable so people don't start to think this is okay since nobody complains anymore. I appreciate these comments, they save me time for procrastinating elsewhere. | | |
| ▲ | derwiki 5 minutes ago | parent [-] | | I agree with this sentiment: it’s not inevitable if we relentlessly ostracize obviously LLM posts And let’s be real: I had a post this year that was #1 on HN for a while, and an LLM “wrote” the whole thing, but it was very much my writing style and NO ONE called out the post as LLM slop. If you use an LLM correctly for writing, it’s not detectable. It seems that most folks don’t go through that effort. |
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| ▲ | dawnerd 25 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Makes you wonder if any of stats these articles push are even real. |
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| ▲ | icelancer 27 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Gets a 100% on Pangram. Stuff is so distracting. Write your own posts, FFS. Or at least pass it through "humanizer" type plugins. |
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| ▲ | try-working an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| You should make sure to not read Stratechery then. It's writing is even worse. |
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| ▲ | TacticalCoder an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| > The way the LLMs write (Claude perhaps?) With short phrases separated by colons, commas or full stops, is so poor and frustrating. Yup llmish (from now on it's called "llmish") sucks. But I'd say: at this point it's probably trivial to write a browser extension that detects llmish and that rewrites the worst sentences: from llmish to something less irritating to read. Heck, I could spent tokens on that: an extension that changes on the fly llmish found on webpages. Also I'd say there's typically no swearing at all in llmish: llmish is too politically correct for swearing. So the rewrite could maybe also use a few "offending" words. Offending words that, btw, are not going to go well with Gen Zers. Poor Gen Z... They've been raised with the state and its institutions (like school and then universities) hammering them with the notion that they were precious little unique snowflakes and now they arrive on the job market only to be told they've been pre-emptively replaced by AIs. And because they cannot stand a single curse word (because it's "offensive to minorities" or something), they'll be driven off by text rewritten to contain curse words. So they're condemned to read the bland, dumb, AI-generated llmish for the rest of their lives. Honestly sucks for them. Fuck that. |
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