I am really amazed at how we are really okay with LLMs writing code end to end (without human in the loop) / dark factory concept but when it comes articles, HN is suddenly against LLMs writing words. I do not see the difference between writing code and writing prose. Both have keywords, grammars, syntax, meaningful combinations (function or chaining in code / collocations in words). If we think that AI-generated words are not meaningful or easy to follow that same must apply to AI-generated code, which may be harder to read or understand since it is not written by human. Let's stop being hypocrites.
replyNote: My comment is not specific to this comment. I just wanted to express myself at somewhere and this is where I think it may be suitable.
The purpose of writing is to get your thoughts across in words. A prompt sufficient enough to get out an article with zero chance of it adding things you don't mean has to contain as much information as the article itself would. Just write the article.
replyThat's because the purpose of code is to be used, not to be read.
replyThe only purpose of the written word is to be read.
> I do not see the difference between writing code and writing prose.
replyThat’s the problem.
Slop is slop.
replyWe are not okay with slop code. There was healthy and widespread dissent in 2024 and beginning of 2025. Ycombinator cracked down on the dissent first by installing another moderator and then by downranking and banning anti-AI people.
replyWhat you read here are bots and those invested in AI and an occasional retired person who uses AI as a crutch.
Not the factory floor. The receiving end.
replyIt wasn’t one bottleneck. It was all of them.
Not the nuclear material. The pattern.
Money was never the constraint. Knowledge was.
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#1 rule of slop: anything that can be written, can be AI-generated now
reply#2 rule of slop: even posts critical of pervasive AI usage and how it's ruining the world can be AI-generated