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by stavros10 hours ago |
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upvoteby jore10 hours ago|
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Out of curiosity - how did you figure this out? I cannot find any hints about that. Was it the language used?
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upvoteby zackkrida10 hours ago|
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language, structure. look how much negation there is. the construction "no A, no B, no, C" is used several times.

or another example, the following sentence:

"handlers/ is flat — no subdirectories"

who writes like this? you'd just write "handlers/ is a flat folder" or similar.

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upvoteby usui10 hours ago|
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I often see replies to AI-generated posts being pointed out here asking what makes it obvious. Is it that difficult to notice the indicators? Is it mostly undetected by English-as-a-second-language speakers, people inexperienced with generative AI, or is it something else?
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upvoteby vidarh9 hours ago|
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I rather think the surprise is a result of technical users wildly overestimating how obvious these markers are to people.
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upvoteby petercooper10 hours ago|
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"it doesn't silently go unnoticed", "would be silently inert", "instead of silently overwriting", "you can never silently overwrite"

The biggest tell for me is overuse of the term "silently". "quietly" is another one you often see from Claude in particular. Models love adverbs for whatever reason, whereas a human writer would use them in moderation for emphasis or prefer terms like "by accident".

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upvoteby ameliaquining7 hours ago|
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In my experience, "silently overwrite" appeared regularly in technical writing long before LLMs were a thing, because it's a useful concept to be able to point at. "Silently go unnoticed" is kind of redundant, though.
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upvoteby IanCal9 hours ago|
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Accidental things and silent things are very different. Accidental means you didn't mean to do it, silent means you don't know you've done it (or might not if you want to get picky, you could notice).
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upvoteby dools9 hours ago|
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Have you ever “wired” anything to anything else when developing software? No, because software doesn’t involve wires, but LLMs are quite convinced that it does.
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upvoteby fragmede2 hours ago|
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Depends on your background. If you're an EE dabbling in writing software, using the verb wire for connecting a couple of libraries together rather than "pipe" or "glue" seems entirely reasonable to me.
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upvoteby dools1 hours ago|
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What about “connect”?
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upvoteby kmeaw8 hours ago|
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Sure, even @Autowired
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upvoteby fakeBeerDrinker10 hours ago|
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Possibly the excessive use of em dashes. Just a guess.
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upvoteby mohammedmsgm10 hours ago|
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This is so obvious

The most AI generated MD in existence. It's also th excessive use of bold, only AI can make bold hard to read.

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upvoteby fakeBeerDrinker10 hours ago|
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Reply to the parent, not me. I understand this.
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upvoteby stavros9 hours ago|
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I can't quite tell you, it wasn't something specific, Claude's writing is just a specific sort of punchy. The "directly on X - no Y, no Z, no A" and the "this is the part you no longer have to do" just smell a lot like Claude. Also "removes that layer entirely", "they map cleanly onto each other", it's all just Claude.

It's how you see a painting and you know it's by Picasso, let's say, or you read an author and you know it's Hemingway. Everyone has their own unique style, and so does Claude. It's just that Claude is the most prolific writer in human history now.

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upvoteby codedokode6 hours ago|
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Could it be because the author is not very confident in their English skills so they asked an LLM to translate text to a proper English?
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upvoteby stavros6 hours ago|
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It could be, it could also be that they wanted to produce it more cheaply, could be a few valid reasons. It just looks cheap to me, and I thought companies would want to show a better face.

Then again, like a sibling said, only LLMs will be reading this anyway.

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upvoteby codedokode6 hours ago|
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But to write the text, LLM needs some source, where does it come from? You need to write something anyway.
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upvoteby dist-epoch9 hours ago|
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I finds it surprising you find it surprising.

Is this the best use of a human, to write a long, detailed manual for a feature? Which most likely will be read by another LLM?

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upvoteby _superposition_7 hours ago|
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Hit the nail on the head. I find it surprising people give a fuck any more. Who likes writing documentation? Us devs being horrible at and hating to write documentation was a standard trope before llms. They do a better job and dont complain.
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