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196 points · 209 comments · Muhammad523

  1. dwedge · · focus · HN ↗
    > Now, finally, I have an idea. It's gonna take 5000 words to get there, though, so if you don't have that kind of time, skip to the part about registries.

    This article is full of LLMisms, which is to be expected but maybe it wouldn't be 5000 words and wouldn't need this disclaimer if they wrote it themselves

    1. lyjackal · · focus · HN ↗
      While I’m usually one to also get annoyed at uncurated slop, this doesn’t strike me in any way as LLM text, and likely something the author meant in earnest. I reads lot of LLM text. What part about it appeared generated to you?

      From my perspective the piece was well structured, paced and thought through (and yes, a bit long)

      1. magarnicle · · focus · HN ↗
        The whole paragraph titled "Isn't this just Tidelift again?" is exactly how Claude describes something it is excited about.
        1. lyjackal · · focus · HN ↗
          I’d recommend looking through the 20+ years of Laurie’s writing in the archives. The LLMs may very well be mimicking him. I wouldn’t put LLM assisted writing past him, but I feel like this is being judged on topical similarity, and is not the standard kind of egregious incoherent slop that has little substance or lacks coherence. See for example:

          <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.nvidia.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;introducing-cuda-rust-two-tracks-for-writing-gpu-kernels&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.nvidia.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;introducing-cuda-rust-two-...

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