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by kranner 311 days ago
> And it’s not harmless — it leads to broken logic, messy hacks, and subtle bugs that only show up in production.

The AI-specific use of em dash with the list of three near-synonyms following, the "it's not just this", the "it's a fundamental shift". This article seems AI-generated or at the very least AI-massaged.

Once you suspect AI has been used to write something, you're not sure if the 'author' has bothered to double-check the article for veracity, or if you're going to be doing this work for them.

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Humans taught LLMs how to write, and now LLMs are teaching humans how to write.

It's terrible.

> The truth: your current date system isn’t just awkward — it’s wrong. We fixed it. And if that feels unsettling… maybe it’s time your code grew up.

Whoever wrote this (whether carbon or silicon; I lean toward the latter) ... should find another line of work.