| > Yet we never 'see' this in the article. It just restates it a few times without providing any proof. I'm honestly shocked by the number of upvotes this article has on Hacker News. It's extremely low quality. It's obviously written with ChatGPT. The tells are: (1) Incorrect technology "hype cycle". It shows "Trigger, Disillusionment, Englightnment Productivity". It's missing the very important "Inflated Expectations". (2) Too many pauses that disrupt the flow of ideas: - Lots of em-dashes. ChatGPT loves to break up sentences with em-dashes. - Lots of short sentences to sound pithy and profound. Example: "The executives get excited. The consultants circle like sharks. PowerPoint decks multiply. Budgets shift." (3) "It isn't just X, it's X+1", where X is a normal descriptor, where X+1 is a more emphatic rephrasing of X. ChatGPT uses this construct a lot. Here are some from the article: - "What actually happens isn't replacement, it's transformation" - "For [...] disposable marketing sites, this doesn't matter. For systems that need to evolve over years, it's catastrophic." Similarly, "It's not X, it's inverse-X", resulting in the same repetitive phrasing: - "The NoCode movement didn't eliminate developers; it created NoCode specialists and backend integrators." - "The cloud didn't eliminate system administrators; it transformed them into DevOps engineers" - "The most valuable skill in software isn't writing code, it's architecting systems." - "The result wasn't fewer developers—it was the birth of "NoCode specialists"" - "The sysadmins weren't eliminated; they were reborn as DevOps engineers" - "the work didn't disappear; it evolved into infrastructure-as-code," - "the technology doesn't replace the skill, it elevates it to a higher level of abstraction." - "code is not an asset—it's a liability." --------- I wish people stopped using ChatGPT. Every article is written in the same wordy, try-to-hard-to-sound-profound, ChatGPT mannerisms. Nobody writes in their own voice anymore. |