Scrolling down a LinkedIn feed is hilarious at the moment. My favourite one today from today: “The tax isn't the problem. The mindset is.”
The LinkedIn Kool-Aid predates the advent of LLMs though.
Various LLM Smells
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#52> The "JetBrains Mono" font Thought for sure we'd get a critique of Inter overuse. JetBrains Mono is a lovely font, though.
Yeah this one kinda hurts.
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
Really hard to take your comment serious when the only post on dvt.name is a hello world page, because at least OP is trying to publish and you are lacking moral high ground to judge him thinking LLM writing is good.
Oh if I had a nickle for every web domain I bought and put a hello-world.html into s3 and never checked again ... FWIW, I'm with GP. It's quite easy to get just mind-numbingly tired reading beyond the first two sentences of a typical LLM output, let alone on something I'm familiar with.
It's on dvt about page in HN, so hardly something hidden. People are different, and in the blog post itself the author writes that in time he became tired of the way LLM wtites
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#54Thank you, these are all things I've noticed too.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Really hard to take your comment serious when the only post on dvt.name is a hello world page, because at least OP is trying to publish and you are lacking moral high ground to judge him thinking LLM writing is good.
Lol my blog was hacked recently and I've been lazy about moving my backed-up mySQL DB to the new WP installation. Not sure where moral high ground enters the picture. If I really wanted to be an asshole, I'd cite a book I co-wrote and another I edited.
> Honestly, I can't fathom thinking that LLM writing is even remotely passable. People that think this should honestly read more.
How do you think the author of the page would read this? That sounded pretty asshole-like for me. If it's not for you I'm really sorry for you, you must have to endure really screwed up people.
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#56I came here for the performative anti-AI intellectualism and was not disappointed.
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#57At this point, I want somebody's raw(ish) writing, with spelling errors and grammar mistakes and whatever, at least when it comes to most writing: blog posts, Slack messages, etc. LLMs are great for helping generate ideas, writing code, and maybe even cleaning up some writing, but doing the writing overall? Please don't. I want to hear what you have to say, not what the AI says, if it's something along those lines.
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#58I don't think I've met anyone who uses the word "genuinely" as much as Claude does.
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are we also saying it's acceptable to feed people junk because it's better than what they would cook? At some point you're just making bad excuses for false scarcity.
Tell me your thoughts on the quality of LLM-generated code. I've never understood this attitude where people are absolutely disgusted by the slightest whiff of AI prose but will happily slurp up AI-generated code by the bucketful and proudly proclaim that it's OK because it's better than the average developer can produce.
I'm not sure if your question is serious, but I've been a developer for over a decade now.
I write code for a living mostly by hand. In the odd case where I need help I still use google like I always have. I spend more of my time in meetings or staring at the ceiling than writing code. This was also true a decade ago before LLMs. It was also true several decades ago when someone else's ass was in my seat.
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#60So the year is 2026 and we cannot point a LLM at, say, this HN thread, and give it the instructions: "I don't want to look like a dumbass, so don't make these obvious mistakes / don't use these obvious tells"!?