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Code Is Cheap Now, and That Changes Everything

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Re: Code Is Cheap Now, and That Changes Everything

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> This isn’t a minor detail, it’s the core constraint that shaped virtually every habit and institution in our industry. I am so so tired of this turn of phrase in LLM created content. I guess I don't know for sure whether this article was LLM written but I suspect so. Or, scarier still we are changing our own writing to match this slop.

I find it amusing that software developers have no issue with having an LLM churn out slop code but have such a visceral reaction to slop articles.

One is made for humans to consume, the other for a compiler or interpreter. Good code is supposed to look like other code and follow common patterns. The best writing is original and novel.
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