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397 points · 116 comments · razin

  1. vhiremath4 · · focus · HN ↗
    AI Slop. Will not read.
    1. gravitronic · · focus · HN ↗
      The article?

      turbopuffer is founded by some of the smartest people I ever worked with in past jobs. I strongly doubt they used an LLM in the writing of this article.

      1. _peregrine_ · · focus · HN ↗
        confirmed - we still write by hand
        1. croemer · · focus · HN ↗
          This one sentence sounds very LLMish:

          > Object storage as the source of truth gave the economics, and tiered NVMe SSD/memory caches gave the performance.

          1. mediaman · · focus · HN ↗
            Yes, that construct is, like em dashes, something that humans have been writing for a long time. That's the problem with triggering on one isolated tic. The tic comes from human practice, it's not like they invented it!
            1. croemer · · focus · HN ↗
              I'm not sure I've ever read a sentence like this before LLMs. Maybe I didn't pay attention, possible. I should do a search of pre-LLM writing for this construction.
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