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Darn. I write exactly like this. You need to consider that people write in different ways, and the LLM is choosing from among the different styles.
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I knew a lady who was named Isis at birth.

She stopped using that name.

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I heard it mostly writes in a style associated with low-class people from Kenya.
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I read the same piece you did (if it was on HN, anyway), and it described highly-educated-in-Kenya people. Nothing low-class implied. I suspect (though I may be wrong about this) that lower-class Kenyans aren't likely to be literate in English.
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So AI also thinks people somehow get away only with ORM without understanding SQL?

Funny thing is, that is always argument of „anti ORM” people.

I yet have to see someone actually argue that you don’t need to understand SQL and ORM will suffice in the wild. Then also find devs who can’t do a simple join as joins and index usage is not some black magic and is still required to use ORM properly.

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> I yet have to see someone actually argue that you don’t need to understand SQL and ORM will suffice

Well that's because decades of bitter experience has told us all that object graphs rarely map cleanly to sets of relationships.

However, I do think that must have been the original idea as tools such as Hibernate tried so hard to obscure the underlying SQL and database. As a result all Hibernate objects have their own particular identity requirements which only made sense to a developer that knows what's going on under the hood.

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I would still like some kind of proof.

Like an early article having headline "ORM will replace SQL knowledge".

I am professional dev for 15 years and hobbyist for 20 years and I might have missed something. But only thing I do remember was "anti ORM" people nagging how "one should really know SQL" - where I never heard anyone saying "don't learn SQL" maybe only NoSQL hype... but no one else.

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Can we stop calling specific literary devices as automatically AI?

Yes, LLMs overuse that pattern. But it's a valid rhetorical device used for many , many years by human authors. Quite often too, especially in philosophical writing, and fantasy novels.

I'll give you that it wasn't often used in blogs or tech articles, but LLMs have been around long enough to have influenced human writing in other domains without the entirety of the content itself being LLM generated.

But its called out so often I swear people online will go read some classics and accuse them of being AI generated.

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The amount of em dashes in Nietzche; the amount of semicolons in Hegel
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I just assume anyone posting it, at this point, doesn't read, doesn't write, or simply isn't clever enough to say anything that's actually worth listening to. Pure noise that won't go away because it makes the teenagers feel validated in how mad they are about AI.
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It's always AI until proven otherwise... even then I'm skeptical.
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Ellipses where a comma would suffice? Definitely AI. Not even a good model.
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John23832, you are still an AI to me too.
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Did you not see the banner image?
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