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by ivan_gammel 330 days ago
The content of this post makes some sense, however it does look like it’s written by AI and thus lacks depth, context and personal touch.
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Especially sentences like these:

"This wasn’t just about type safety – it was about reducing the mental burden of programming."

The "x wasn't just about n — it was about m" carry a strong LLM smell.

Another giveaway:

> Whether you’re debugging your first NullPointerException or architecting enterprise systems, there’s always someone willing to help you grow.

> Whether you’re starting your programming journey or looking to add a robust, reliable language to your toolkit, Java remains one of the best investments you can make in your technical future.

I wish people would be more thoughtful about how they used LLMs.

Off topic: Lacks... personal touch. That's exactly what I find wrong with AI writing. Good writing has the author's voice. Corporate writing has no personal voice; that's why everybody hates reading it.

AIs train on all the text of all the web (that they can get, at least). A lot of that text is "corporate voice" (that is, written by nobody). But even the rest, the AI blends it all together. As a result, in the output, there's no voice - or rather, all the voices all blended together, which doesn't sound like anybody.

I hate that I have to second-guess whether or not something has really been written by a human nowadays. Especially with these blogs that have sprung up in the past couple years.
Quote from the article:

> Java has been my companion through:

> Learning object-oriented programming > Building enterprise applications > Navigating the transition to cloud computing > Exploring microservices and distributed systems > Mentoring other developers > Speaking at international conferences

Yeah this is literally what 90% of senior programmers have done regardless their favorite languages. Either AI-slop or human-slop.