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Re: Welcome to Hell Developer

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Post by deckar01 »

Scribbd wrote: post #2

> As for my original sync problem? After all of that – decompiling an APK, reverse engineering a binary protocol, writing a BLE exploit script – it turned out the issue was on my phone the whole time. Not the cycling computer. The phone. I can feel the pain.

I think about troubleshooting like OBST with test cost. Systems are a linear chain of points of failure. The more knowledge you have about how hard components are to test and which components break more often, the easier it is to choose the tests that optimize your time.

Re: Welcome to Hell Developer

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Post by slopinthebag »

RickS wrote: post #27
Jtarii wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Started reading, saw "That was it, That was the whole reason", closed the page.

Is that a claudeism? IMO that's a perfectly natural trope that'd be at home in my voice or any of a million generic blog people I've read since long before AI. It is a linguistic trope, sure, but that's an unrelated criticism.

It's more subtle than that. Human written articles are immediately recognisable and so you let your guard down and tropes like this are accepted. But AI writing occupies a part of the uncanny valley where the hairs on the back of your neck stand up a bit, and every AI-ism like this is like a branch snapping beneath your feet

Re: Welcome to Hell Developer

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Post by slopinthebag »

Sparkle-san wrote: post #28
RickS wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is that a claudeism? IMO that's a perfectly natural trope that'd be at home in my voice or any of a million generic blog people I've read since long before AI. It is a linguistic trope, sure, but that's an unrelated criticism.

The thing with all AI-isms is that they all started humans, but we're apparently not allowed to use them anymore. Emily Dickinson obsessed with em-dashes, now they belong to ChatGPT.

You can use em dashes as long as you don't write like a bot.

Re: Welcome to Hell Developer

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Post by ruszki »

Sparkle-san wrote: post #28
RickS wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is that a claudeism? IMO that's a perfectly natural trope that'd be at home in my voice or any of a million generic blog people I've read since long before AI. It is a linguistic trope, sure, but that's an unrelated criticism.

The thing with all AI-isms is that they all started humans, but we're apparently not allowed to use them anymore. Emily Dickinson obsessed with em-dashes, now they belong to ChatGPT.

I’ve never read comments, articles, books in LLM’s current style before LLMs, and somehow, since then, I read comments like these every other day. This phenomenon is way overblown at the minimum. And since nobody showed a counter example from before 2022 which can be confused as LLM generated (using em dashes was never in it self that) I tend to say that it never even existed.

Re: Welcome to Hell Developer

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Post by Jtarii »

RickS wrote: post #27
Jtarii wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Started reading, saw "That was it, That was the whole reason", closed the page.

Is that a claudeism? IMO that's a perfectly natural trope that'd be at home in my voice or any of a million generic blog people I've read since long before AI. It is a linguistic trope, sure, but that's an unrelated criticism.

There is just a very specific kind of enthusiastic/authoritative/nerd voice that claude and other LLMs do does that is so grating to me. Like it's trying to be super upbeat and engaging and it comes off as trying too hard and is just offputting. If people are going to use LLMs to write their articles for them I would rather they be more neutral in tone, it just feels so incincere to get a robot to try to impersonate a enthusiastic human.

Re: Welcome to Hell Developer

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Post by Throaway199999 »

procone wrote: post #8

I found this really hard to read due to the Claude-isms. "Classic" chicken and egg problem? 39 em-dashes, random numbered lists, etc. If you're not going to even bother to take the time to write an article, why should I waste my time reading it?

pretty obviously a copy-and-paste job
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