Arguing with Agents • Hacker News Board

Re: Arguing with Agents

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Post by cyanydeez » Thu, Apr 16, 2026, 9:00 PM UTC

rubslopes wrote: post #31

akprasad wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe it's just the frequency illusion, but "X. Not Y." in particular is a pattern I strongly associate with LLM writing. > That’s confabulation. Not a metaphor. The same phenomenon. > Published. Replicated. Not fringe. > Not to validate it. Not to refute it. Not to engage with its content at all.

There's a Wikipedia article with a nice list of LLM writing patterns: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing

This is what I always read before I prepare a critique about why this is an LLM writing.

It's the new age "Repost"

Re: Arguing with Agents

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Post by ahaferburg » Fri, Apr 17, 2026, 8:18 AM UTC

asaaki wrote: post #40

ahaferburg wrote: post #39

> Autistic person writes article describing a mismatch between communication styles of autistic people with non-autistic people. > HN commenters express their anger about the writing style and how it was probably generated by AI. Peak HN. In all seriousness, I really liked the article. For me, it was well written.

Thanks! I was starting to feel alone with that. Not sure what others have been reading so far, but this article already smells so human, I couldn't imagine anyone mistaken it for LLM output (especially since it is about LLMs and how they fail to work for some of us). Funnily enough I also consulted three models across different vendors, and all came to the same conclusion (it's very human and very unlikely LLM produc…

I'm not a native English speaker, so I don't really have much of an opinion about LLM writing. It probably doesn't stand out to me that much. Your reply made me curious though, so I asked a bunch of "is this AI writing" websites about this article, and they landed on about 7-8 % AI writing, so pretty unlikely.

On the article itself, I found the title quite relatable. When coding agents became a thing, I kept arguing with LLMs before realizing how pointless it is. I really liked the turn the article took, relating the communication breakdown to neurodivergence, and the inherent bias that current models bring.

It reminds me of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-sides_model

According to this communication model, there's four aspects to communication between humans. Apart from the factual and the appeal layers, it highlights other aspects, which it calls self-revealing and relationship layers. It is somewhat surprising, and definitely remarkable, that these also matter when communicating with an LLM.

Thank you for posting the article!

Re: Arguing with Agents

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Post by boxedemp » Sat, Apr 18, 2026, 5:15 AM UTC

cr125rider wrote: post #14

boxedemp wrote: post #8

>A recurring experience: I say something explicit, the other person hears something implicit. I've experienced this my entire life and have all but given up trying to have actual conversations with people.

How’s life on the spectrum? Have you been diagnosed?

Never been diagnosed. Been to many therapists and psychiatrists.

I've been diagnosed with depression several times, but never anything spicier.

I'm just strange I guess.