It's insulting to read AI-generated blog posts

Post by h4ck_th3_pl4n3t » Thu, Oct 30, 2025, 5:37 AM UTC

WesolyKubeczek wrote: post #364

ManuelKiessling wrote: post #312

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Why have the LLMs „learned“ to write PRs (and other stuff) this way? This style was definitely not mainstream on Github (or Reddit) pre-LLMs, was it? It’s strange how AI style is so easy to spot. If LLMs just follow the style that they encountered most frequently during training, wouldn’t that mean that their style would be especially hard to spot?

You may thank millenial hipsters who used think emojis are cute and proliferation of little javascript libraries authored by them on your friendly neighborhood githubs. Later the cutest of the emojis paved their way into templates used by bots and tools, and it exploded like colorful vomit confetti all over the internets. When I see this emojiful text, my first association is not with an LLM, but with a lumberjack-be…

Post by h4ck_th3_pl4n3t » Thu, Oct 30, 2025, 5:43 AM UTC

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mikepurvis wrote: post #139

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I would never put up a copilot PR for colleague review without fully reviewing it myself first. But once that’s done, why not?

It destroys the value of code review and wastes the reviewers time. Code review is one of the places where experience is transferred. It is disheartening to leave thoughtful comments and have them met with "I duno. I just had [AI] do it." If all you do is 'review' the output of your prompting before cutting a CR, I'd prefer you just send the prompt.

Post by DoctorOW » Thu, Oct 30, 2025, 12:33 PM UTC

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DoctorOW wrote: post #528

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> For some reason, I think people think riddling a README with emoji makes the document more inclusive. Why do you think that? I try to stay involved in accessibility community (if that's what you mean by inclusive?) and I've not heard anyone advocate for emojis over text?

It's really only anecdotal — I observed this as a popular meme between ~2015-2020. I say "meme" because I believe this is how the information spreads — I think people in that particular clique suggest it to each other and it becomes a form of in-group signalling rather than an earnest attempt to improve the accessibility of information. I'm wary now of straying into argumentum ad ignorantiam territory, but I think my…

Post by beej71 » Thu, Oct 30, 2025, 2:50 PM UTC

tpmoney wrote: post #409

beej71 wrote: post #334

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Do you care if a scifi book was written by an AI or human, out of curiosity?

I'm not the OP but I've been thinking about this for a little bit since I read your question. Part of me says no, what could be more Sci-Fi than a complete and comprehensive story written by a computer. Who wouldn't want Data to have been able to and succeeded at writing a story that connects with his human compatriots? On the other hand, I also understand the concern and feeling of "something lost" when I consider a…

Post by ManuelKiessling » Thu, Oct 30, 2025, 4:55 PM UTC

troupo wrote: post #522

ManuelKiessling wrote: post #312

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Why have the LLMs „learned“ to write PRs (and other stuff) this way? This style was definitely not mainstream on Github (or Reddit) pre-LLMs, was it? It’s strange how AI style is so easy to spot. If LLMs just follow the style that they encountered most frequently during training, wouldn’t that mean that their style would be especially hard to spot?

> Why have the LLMs „learned“ to write PRs (and other stuff) this way? They didn't learn how to write PRs. They "learned" how to write text. Just like generic images coming out of OpenAI have the same style and yellow tint, so does text. It averages down to a basic tiktok/threads/whatever comment. Plus whatever bias training sets and methodology introduced