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smartmic 6 hours ago

Unfortunately written by an AI - that completely takes the wind out of the content and makes me not even want to read any further. The distinction between “production” and “non-production” is also questionable. For an evaluation, I recommend the following original articles (certainly not AI-generated):

- https://sqlite.org/whentouse.html

- https://sqlite.org/different.html

- https://sqlite.org/quirks.html

rdsubhas an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I have to disagree with this as off topic.

The blog lists ways to optimize sqlite for production, for those who have already made that choice. But these comment links are about choosing sqlite vs others and differences, which is completely unrelated and unnecessary for those who have already made that choice.

I'm seeing a worrying trend on HN. Nearly for all articles, there is one unquantified, unproven comment at the top saying it's 100% AI — no proof, just baseless emotion of what fits the commenter's writing style. This is the new witch hunt, or virtue trolling.

I read the original article and to be honest, this off topic comment definitely looks more like an AI troll bot wrote it than the article. The troll bot is instructed to do a google search and put 3 source links — no matter how irrelevant they are.

So what is it now — one emotion vs another? If an article has sections and blocks, it's AI. What about infinite poor humans like me who have been writing like this since childhood?

Since LLMs were trained on high quality blog posts, we can no longer have posts that fit the pre-AI definition of high quality? The content must be dumbed down with typis and scatter unconventional words, to prove AI trollers that it's not AI? Or a timelapse video of typing the article?

Instead how about: if you don't want to read the article because it doesn't fit your personal style expectation — just don't bother commenting?

I hope HN would ban AI trolling comments, and discuss substance.

FLeXMurphy 39 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

> This is the new witch hunt, or virtue trolling.

The site has had that forever though. You missed out on the last witch hunt of going after straight white men as the root of all evil.

adhamsalama an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Even your comment looks like it's generated by AI.

Defletter 35 minutes ago | parent [-]

"You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes." - Maimonides

I feel like "this is AI" needs to join the ranks "it's not that deep" and "this is a Wendy's" as an annoying thought-terminating cliche.

persedes an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Hope this becomes a cultural norm outside of HN. You can have AI written text that had some actual human effort put into it [1], but sloppy AI written content should only be meant for anohter AI consumers and not humans.

1 - https://www.ilfoglio.it/il-foglio-ai/2025/03/22/news/a-first...

thunky 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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