The _prose_ itself here is 100% LLM-generated, with the famous ticks present and all. You like it not because it's not Claude-prose (it is), but because it has a nice concept and some smart writing in human parts of it.

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mwhitfield an hour ago | parent | next [-]

It wouldn't be an HN comment thread without a 100% confident, no-room-for-doubt assertion of AI-generated writing.

	▲	Retr0id an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		HN has a lot of people submitting/upvoting AI-generated content, and also a lot of people who work with AI extensively and therefore know how to identify it. It's not a big surprise.
	▲	fwip 6 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Plenty of comment threads don't have anybody saying that the original article is AI. It tends to be for articles that aren't AI-generated.

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

I had to skip lots of it. Funnily enough I didn’t think it was LLM made, just someone who wanted to practice their storytelling skills a bit eagerly. A bit of a /r/LinkedInLunatics feel to it.

Bottom bit was confusing. Did he actually get hit or was it just a story? I assume the later but you never know these days…

	▲	QuercusMax an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It's clearly a work of fiction. Perhaps you should skip less and you'll retain more.
	▲	the_af an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> Bottom bit was confusing. Did he actually get hit or was it just a story? What do you mean? This is clearly fiction. The person in the story is dying, the author hasn't died. Or do you mean whether the person in the story actually died? Yes, he did. He's not typing, these are meant to be his thoughts. He's "stretching" the minute of his death; the story makes an analogy with the no-man's minute of the bug he was trying to debug: > Tanya used to say I was always somewhere other than here. Now it's true. Only I still don't know where. Sometimes I think it's in that very minute. The server thinks I've been sent. The warehouse thinks I haven't been received yet. And both are right, each by its own clock. He's been "sent" (to the afterlife) by this plane of existence (the server), but the warehouse (the afterlife) still hasn't received the message, hence "the minute". He's living in that eternal minute, Owl Creek style.

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the_af 10 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> The _prose_ itself here is 100% LLM-generated, with the famous ticks present and all.

How can you be so sure, 100%? What are the famous ticks that you see in the story?

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_dain_ an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I was vaguely annoyed at the prose throughout but I attributed it to human clumsiness. I'm getting less good at noticing it. Does not bode well.