But if this is LLM content then it does seem like the LLMs are still improving. (I suppose the AI flavour could be from Grammarly's new features or something.)
It's hated by everyone, why would people imitate it? You're inventing a rationale that either doesn't exist or would be stupider than the alternative. The obvious answer here it they just used an LLM.
> and clearly it serves some benefit to readers.
What?
So, someone who falls on the side of not completely hating LLMs for everything (which is most people), could easily copy the style by accident.
It could be involuntary. People often adopt the verbal tics of the content they read and the people they talk with.
This was either written by Claude or someone who uses Claude too much.
I wish they could be upfront about it.
We need a dictionary like this :D
Know what's more annoying than AI posts? Seeing accusations of AI slop for every. last. god. damned. thing.
So if you see LinkedInglish on LinkedIn, it may or may not be an LLM. Outside of LinkedIn... probably an LLM.
It is curious why LLMs love talking in LinkedInglish so much. I have no idea what the answer to that is but they do.
The actual mechanism, I have no clue.
I came back around 2017*, expecting the same nice experience I had with VB3 to 6.
What a punch in the face it was...
I honestly cannot fathom anyone developing natively for windows (or even OSX) at this day and age.
Anything will be a webapp or a rust+egui multi-plataform developed on linux, or nothing. It's already enough the amount of self-hate required for android/ios.
* not sure the exact date. It was right in the middle of the WPF crap being forced as "the new default".*
What if it was?
What if it wasn't?
What if you never find out definitely?
Do you wonder that about all content?
If so, doesn't that get exhausting?
I completely agree with your parent that it's tedious seeing this "fake and gay" problem everywhere and wonder what an unwinnable struggle it must be for the people who feel they have to work out if everything they read was AI written or not.
I hardly ever go through a post fisking it for AI tells, they leap out at me now whether I want them to or not. As the density of them increases my odds of closing the tab approach one.
It's not a pleasant time to read Show HNs but it just seems to be what's happening now.
Exactly!
I personally like the content and the style of the article. I never managed to accept going through the pain to install and use Visual Studio and all these absurd procedures they impose to their users.
[1] https://www.pangram.com/history/300b4af2-cd58-4767-aced-c4d2...