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1. jdkoeck · 1789797315 · focus · HN ↗

   I trailed off a few lines into the README. No human ever edited any of this. « LLM detected, project rejected ».

   1. antoniojtorres · 1789799113 · focus · HN ↗

      Every third post in HN has this same complaint comment. Everybody knows.

      1. flohofwoe · 1789807311 · focus · HN ↗

         Tbh, I still wonder why people even bother releasing such tools that were shitted out by an LLM in an hour or two, these are basically the modern equivalent of a hastily cobbled together 10-liner shell script (still useful, but not something you'd ever put up as its own Github project).

         Everybody else can write such tools now by themselves in at most an hour, and they get a tool that's more personalized to their tastes. And why have a readme at all when it's just LLM mumbo-jumbo - that sort of mumbo-jumbo is written for LLMs to consume, not humans.

         1. zahlman · 1789808172 · focus · HN ↗

            In theory, there is some value in deciding what the LLM ought to shit out, and checking that it works, and maybe even making a design decision or two to try and create something that would be relevant or useful for many people. And then others can possibly save an hour or two, and the data centre can save some water and electricity.

            In practice, well.

            1. flohofwoe · 1789810301 · focus · HN ↗

               That sort of careful work would take more than 7 commits and 1 hour though ;)

               1. zahlman · 1789810673 · focus · HN ↗

                  That's 6 more commits than I'm used to seeing for these sorts of efforts, honestly. (But I will cede that people might be doing all the changes locally and then pushing a single commit, without any real understanding of how version control works.)

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