More AI written slop... Just skip it. Not worth reading.
Came here to figure out why this Ad has 30 upvotes…
The operating cost starts after the demo
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#22Writing about the operating cost of AI tools while the whole article is a complete AI slop. :)
Whether written with AI or not, I don't necessarily agree with the sentiment that it's AI slop . We too often only categorize between no AI used and AI slop. Does them using AI to write the article invalidate the points stated in any way? I personally don't think so. I too am weary of constant bombardment with AI but at the same time being against something just because AI was in the loop isn't much better, if at all…
People have always judged ideas on their communication. if u rite lk this bro - I'm probably not going to pay much attention. Conversely if you write in a really formal way for a young audience you probably won't get far either. It's a shortcut of importance; if it's not important to you to communicate your message well, then it's probably not that important a message.
And this article is such Ai slop. You see the sentences? All short. All 'punchy'. All with repetition. All for maximum 'impact'. Constant unrelenting impact.
And the lists! The lists, the rolls, the lineup, the rows, the enumeration, the catalogue of examples that goes on too long for comfort, logic, joy, readability or attention.
I'd love to know how many people actually read all of this. I suspect most started skimming as it's just awkward to read, the pacing is just so Ai-y it's exhausting.
I'm never really sure the author reads things like this - I think they wrote something, asked a Ai to punch it up then skimmed it and said 'lgtm'. If you care so little why should anyone else?
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#23If I were working in marketing and I wanted to increase utilization of the nuclear power plant next door, I would wipe 50 years of computer science and introduce "agent programming" and pretend it's the future. What are the odds people would buy it? Hit send.
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#24Writing about the operating cost of AI tools while the whole article is a complete AI slop. :)
Genuinely curious: How do you know?
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#25Writing about the operating cost of AI tools while the whole article is a complete AI slop. :)
The promise is AI slop, the reality is HN front page!
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#27> But a demo is not a system. A demo is controlled. The input is clean, the edge cases are removed, and the happy path is selected in advance. Real work has missing data, unclear requests, old records, broken integrations, private context, bad formatting, vague instructions, and exceptions nobody wrote down.
This has been the case for decades. LLMs are just magnifying it.
That's why I feel that an important part of any engineer's development, should be working on shipping product; where they can have firsthand experience with its use "in the wild."
It can be sobering; sometimes, downright depressing.
But it's a great lesson.
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#28More AI written slop... Just skip it. Not worth reading.
Flag it
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#29> But a demo is not a system. A demo is controlled. The input is clean, the edge cases are removed, and the happy path is selected in advance. Real work has missing data, unclear requests, old records, broken integrations, private context, bad formatting, vague instructions, and exceptions nobody wrote down. This has been the case for decades. LLMs are just magnifying it. That's why I feel that an important part of a…
Nothing teaches you like maintaining something for a decade
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Whether written with AI or not, I don't necessarily agree with the sentiment that it's AI slop . We too often only categorize between no AI used and AI slop. Does them using AI to write the article invalidate the points stated in any way? I personally don't think so. I too am weary of constant bombardment with AI but at the same time being against something just because AI was in the loop isn't much better, if at all…
I see no issues in articles where AI was in the loop or made the article better than it otherwise would have been. Why not? But if 100% is generated by AI - and you just prompted it - then I would like to avoid that piece. Personally.
Thats a fair take. I think it still holds some value because an opinion does not lose validity simple because its being presented poorly, but I also understand that the importance an opinion has for you, should inform the amount of effort you spend, to share it with others.