“The [A] is the [B]” (and variations with “the” replaced with “your”) is screaming LLM to me. It’s been used by real people too, but it sounds very corporate, and is not something I’ve seen used to describe a personal project before LLMs.

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rdiddly 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It must have been used by humans before LLMs, because where do you think they learned it?

	▲	gwerbin 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It was always corny except in very specific cases.
	▲	ape4 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		The network is the computer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Network_is_the_Computer
	▲	seb1204 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		All the marketing materials that got used for training. Marketing speak is not my cup of team.
	▲	notpushkin 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It has been used before LLMs. I have no idea why LLMs prefer it, though.

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2III7 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

LLM apophenia is so widespread in HN that it's becoming quite sickening.